Education

Phu Xuan University’s authorities in Hue City removed an official and dismissed a lecturer due to financial misconduct.

While life skills are a required element of the school curriculum, a lack of teaching materials for the subject is challenging teachers.

Hanoi needed to focus on a master plan to develop its education system and school network towards 2020 with a vision towards 2030.

The traditional teaching method, under which, teachers try to stuff students heads with knowledge, has been replaced by a new method to help students “learn by experiencing.”

The headmistress at a high school in Gia Lai Province may face dismissal for alleged embezzlement.

Too much homework and lack of practice are the common problems students complained about at a forum with educators.

Schools in big cities complain that there are not enough swimming pools to teach swimming to students as requested by the Ministry of Education and Training.

A groundbreaking ceremony to build the Vietnam-Korea Friendship Technology College was held in the northern province of Bac Giang on March 27.

Psychologists said that the increasing number of students committing suicides show the lack of life skills among Vietnamese students and the improper attention by schools.

While the students from well-off families can go to universities with their parents’ money, many others have to work hard to get money for their studies.

Officials from South Korea and Asian nations, including Vietnam, met in Hanoi to launch the ASEAN Cyber University project.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an $85-million new education model in primary schools.

Students and parents denounced Raffles International School for not reimbursing tuition fees as they promised.

While public universities offer more majors, private institutions are trying to attract new students by offering various incentives.

While the majority of teachers complain that the income is not high enough to cover their basic needs, some “branded teachers” can earn billions of dong a year.

Ten is the highest level in the Vietnamese grade scale, which is given to excellent pieces of school works; but students now have become tired of receiving 10 grades from teachers.

Hundreds of poor students struggling to pay school fees in Nghe An Province have yet to receive their allowances.

Fifteen universities nationwide have received a dispatch from the Ministry of Education and Training, which requests the schools to cancel the recognition for matriculation of thousands of MA course students.

Work on universalising pre-school education across the country during the past two years has reaped encouraging results, especially in the development of kindergartens.