Education

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.

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

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

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

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

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

So far this year, hundreds of pre-school teachers in HCMC have quit their jobs due to heavy workloads and low pay.

Experts blame the education sector for failing to foresee demand and churning out too many teachers.

Authorities in HCM City are speeding the implementation of projects to provide swimming lessons for school children.

Visitors have a chance to sample different language courses and learn their first words in a new language at a Goethe Institute Hanoi event.

Vietnam and other countries in East Asia need to make their higher education systems more responsive to labour market demands, says the World Bank.

The curriculum for masters degrees in business administration in Vietnam are unpractical, many educators said.

The two countries are seeking to heighten their cooperation in higher education by setting up more joint training programmes.

Many secondary school students in mountainous areas in Quang Ngai and Quang Nam provinces quit school to get married.

The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization held a seminar on October 11 to promote lifelong learning and discuss its plan to develop a lifelong learning centre in Hanoi.

Unable to find the jobs as teachers, a lot of pedagogical school graduates have seen their knowledge buried in oblivion.

Nutrition intervention, especially at kindergarten and primary schools, is taking an important role in managing the increasing rates of obesity in children in Vietnam.

Schools have been struggling to find qualified English teachers since a national pilot programme was launched last year.

The Ministry of Education and Training has asked the Hanoi People's Committee to issue regulations to standardise the fees.