Education

Fifty-five percent of students wish to work for foreign-invested companies, showed an annual survey by Nhan Viet Management Group.

Six Vietnamese high school pupils have won medals at the eighth International Junior Science Olympiad.

From next year, vocational schools and higher education institutions can decide their own levels of enrollment, said a circular recently issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Training courses offered by pedagogy universities to existing primary-school teachers have shown good results, said an official.

Students at vocational schools will be taught communication skills as an optional subject, said the Ministry of Education and Training.

A Vietnamese elementary school won first prize in the Asia-Pacific emerging countries category of an Intel-sponsored award for educational innovation.

With the rapid development of science and technology, printed textbooks will no longer be the main learning material in the 21st century.

Educators in the Mekong Delta region are scrambling to find the ways to encourage students to stay in school.

Hanoi authorities have issued an anti-illiteracy and educational development plan which aims to reach national standards on anti-illiteracy.

A new career guidance programme will help students between the 9th and 12th grades gain better access to information about career paths.

Vietnam has of late seen a mushrooming of international private preschools and kindergartens’ charging exorbitant tuition fees.

Universities with their own financial self-control schemes should have the same rights to set their own tuition fees, a conference heard.

Only one third of HIV infected children in HCM City are admitted to school due to social discrimination against them.

Twenty percent of teachers do not master the skills for using teaching aids, while only 49 percent of students can do experiments in groups sometimes.

Students at people founded schools admit that the material facilities of the schools are very poor while they do not have textbooks for study.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has recently signed a vocational training project with the German Reconstruction Bank.

The Taiwanese Higher Education Fair 2011 opened in Hanoi and is expected to attract more students to study in Taiwan.

Failing to get tenure at public schools, untenured teachers across Vietnam are suffering from low salaries and always obsessed with being sacked anytime.

Many universities in Ho Chi Minh City have been unable to recruit postgraduates for their doctoral degree courses.