Education

Public kindergartens in Hanoi have been ordered to give priority to five-year-old children as part of a move to universalise pre-school education.

Despite full participation of private organisations in education sector, the country is still looking for a way of effectively running the system.

Parents in Hanoi will not have to queue up to enroll their kids in public kindergartens by 2015 when there is no shortage of preschool facilities.

Many pedagogy universities and colleges nationwide have begun to offer more training programmes other than teaching in recent years, said educators.

Nearly 700,000 candidates nation-wide sat Math tests this morning as part first phase university entrance exams.

One day before taking their first university entrance exam, thousands of students set out for the Temperature of Literature.

Youths have been busily preparing to welcome and help students who will be taking university entrance examinations next month.

College candidates and parents nationwide are streaming to HCM City to prepare for the university entrance exams which will start next Monday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has received Danish Minister of Education Troels Lund Poulsen who is on a working visit to Vietnam.

Fifty-three out of 76 vocational schools and colleges in a nationwide pilot programme have been granted training quality standard certificates.

A master degree can be bought for just VND18 million (USD872), with the fake document available in less than a week.

In Vietnam, the students, who follow distance learning courses, still have to come to classes due to the lack of school materials.

The annual Vietnam Summer Camp 2011 for overseas Vietnamese youths and students will take place from July 7-24.

The Ministry of Education and Training will take measures to prevent cheating at the university entrance exams due next month.

The university entrance exams will come in just 10 days, and it is the time for examinees to gear up for preparations.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided not to re-grade high school students’ graduation tests in 11 Mekong Delta localities.

Valofrase, a project promoting French in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, has reaped encouraging outcomes over the past four years.

The marking process of high school graduation examinations should follow the standards set by the Ministry of Education and Training, said an official.

While the public are deeply concerned about education, teachers often seem reticent to express an opinion.