Education

Vietnamese education consumers have suddenly realized that university degrees can no longer be a guarantee for labor force quality and cannot ensure good jobs for degree holders.

Nearly 40 university students from HCM City, Hanoi, Can Tho and Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province attended the Wildlife Summer Camp 2015 which ended yesterday (June 22) at Wildlife At Risk's (WAR) Hon Me Wildlife Rescue Station.

Sixth graders applying to study at Tran Dai Nghia School in HCM City will have to attend an English test instead of an entrance exam.

Vietnam is striving for more mechanisation in agriculture and high-technology farming, but qualified graduates are unable to find jobs in the sector because companies are switching to more profitable businesses.

The Vietnamese government will give VND72 billion (US$3.3 million) for training students of agriculture, forestry and fisheries at the Viet Nam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) in the 2016-2017 period.

The tuition exemption policy at pedagogical school students can no longer help attract good students to education schools. The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) suggested new solutions but they were refused by the National Assembly.

The math and literature questions raised at the high school entrance exam were viewed as being within students’ capacity to answer. Students said they could finish the tests before the deadline.

Vietnam ranks 10th in a list of countries with the most engineering graduates, with 100,390 engineers graduating every year.

Vietnamese are divided on the existence of schools for the gifted and classes of selected students. Some believe schools for the gifted are not good for students, while others think the schools should be part of the educational system.

Students throughout the country who must take high school graduation exams at various venues are finding free accommodations through the Facebook page of HCM City's Exam Season Assistance's Student Assistance Centre.

Recent reports released by state management agencies have repeatedly warned about the increasingly high unemployment rate of university graduates but most high school graduates prioritise higher education.

The 1st Asian Undergraduate Summit (AUS) bringing together undergraduate students of diverse disciplines and providing them with the opportunity to engage in meaningful academic, cultural, and social exchange will get underway on June 14-19 in HCM City.

Secondary schools in Hanoi are finding it hard to select the best students among thousands of primary school graduates with excellent marks.

Many parents are sending their children to military summer camps in the hope they will learn life skills and discipline in a safe environment.

HCM City's Education Department has ordered the city's primary schools to create favourable conditions for first grade enrolments.

The Hanoi National University (HNU) has said it has successfully organized the key test to select best students. Educators have suggested applying the new exam model for national high school finals.

Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan is on a working visit to France from June 4-9 with a hope of enhancing bilateral cooperation in the field.

Most primary school students received positive remarks from teachers at the end of the 2014-2015 academic year under a new marking system that assesses students with comments, not marks.

Most schools in large cities have reported that 90 percent of their students are considered excellent, a figure described as “abnormally high”.