Education

By the end of 2012, about VND130 billion would be funneled to the pilot program on making teaching aids for nursery and general schools nationwide.

Many universities are offering new subjects for study in the next academic year to meet human resources demand in different sectors.

Hanoi’s street proved chaotic on the first day of a pilot scheme ironically intended to ease traffic congestion.

Many high school students in the central city of Danang are still riding motorbikes to school despite the recent introduction of stringent regulations on underage driving.

Many HCM City graduates, fresh out of vocational schools and junior colleges, now resort to buying work experience instead of gaining it to qualify for admission exams at undergraduate levels.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has urged the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and relevant agencies to train 600,000 rural labourers this year.

President Truong Tan Sang held a working session with the leaders of Hanoi and HCM City Law Universities on measures to improve the quality of human resource training and achieve judicial reform.

Overwhelming curriculums, teaching-method reforms, the need for more playgrounds, and the problem of violence at school were raised by school students in HCM City during a recent meeting.

Vietnam will focus on enhancing training for teachers at vocational institutions in 2012, one official said.

The Ministry of Education and Training has instructed localities to achieve the universalisation of junior secondary school education in all communes nationwide this year.

Foreign language lecturers now still talk too much in teaching hours, while this time should be spent encouraging student conversation to ensure the effective teaching of foreign languages.

Bad behaviours of teachers, problematic students’ morality, and the “achievement disease” remain the big existing problems in the education sector.

Vietnam has sent 70 specialists to Russia to receive nuclear technology training, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Dinh Tien informed.

Many students from other provinces in HCM City choose to find temporary jobs or do social work during Tet instead of returning home for the festival.

The HCM City authorities have agreed on recruitment policy for foreign preschool teachers, in light of the current shortage.

After being fined for violating regulations, Raffles International College Hanoi offered to reimburse any unhappy students.

The Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics in Hanoi held its inauguration ceremony on Jan. 17.

Hundreds of primary pupils in Can Tho City joined a painting contest with the theme of preventing violence in school.

The Ministry of Education and Training plans to ask the Government to allocate land and funds to develop preschool education in the Mekong Delta.