Education

Government to invest more in education in central highland region

The government has decided to uplift the living standards of the people of ethnic minority groups in the central highland region by providing more educational facilities from 2011-2015.

The school, where all students “sit in wrong classes”

A lot of students of Dip Village’s School in Kon Tum Province still go to school every day, but they do not know why they should do that.

Low pay leads to lack of qualified professors

Many universities have found it difficult to recruit competent professors, as the best and brightest can make better money elsewhere.

Agriculture enlivens primary schools

A number of primary schools in HCM City have designed a “farm corner” to their campuses.

Schools force students to buy ‘optional’ books

Students of all classes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City schools are forced to buy reference books though they are nominally optional.

Universities cry about the lack of lecturers

Universities cannot persuade graduates to stay at the schools to work as lecturers, while it is very difficult to “hunt for heads”.

Deputy PM: Tertiary education centres must be better managed

The country should boost management over the establishment of new tertiary education centres, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

HCM City struggles to meet preschool education target

HCM City is speeding up the implementation of a plan to ensure all five year-olds attend school by June 2012.

Lecturers, officials opt for unauthorised degrees

Many university lecturers and officials in HCM City have been found enrolling for unapproved master’s degrees and PhD programmes.

Students in Mekong Delta struggle to school through floods

Students in An Phu District, in the Mekong province of An Giang, have been struggling with floods.

Ministry reduces working hours of preschool teachers

The Ministry of Education and Training rescheduled the working curriculum of preschool teachers, reducing their working hours to 42 weeks per year.

Vietnam-Russia technology university set up

Vietnam and Russia have signed a minute on the establishment of the Vietnam-Russia University of Technology in Hanoi.

MOET admits it’s difficult to find English teachers

The shortage of English teachers for the programme on teaching English to primary school students has become more serious.

Students escape nearly collapsed classrooms

Hundreds of students fled classrooms at a middle school in Quang Ngai Province when they were on the verge of collapse.

Obesity rates among urban students double in decade

The obesity rate among elementary school students in Ho Chi Minh City has doubled to 38.5 percent in the past decade, a survey said.

Vietnamese graduates to be bilingual

Within nine years, most graduates from Vietnam's colleges and universities will be expected to speak English or another foreign language.

Vietnamese parents trying to produce child prodigies

Vietnamese parents nowadays all want their children to become geniuses by forcing their children to study and do arithmetic soon.

State agencies refuse bachelors of private schools

Nam Dinh provincial authorities said that they will not accept the bachelors who graduate from non-state schools as the officers in state agencies.

Vietnam's pre-education system in crisis

Preschools are facing many obstacles, including over-worked, undertrained teachers, affecting education quality.

Better education is key to Central Highlands progress

Education and training are among top measures to improve ethnic minorities' living conditions in the Central Highlands, NA Chairman said.

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