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Hanoi’s most modern school

September 3, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Hanoi’s most modern schoolVietNamNet Bridge – The construction of Hanoi-Amsterdam High School has finished. This is considered the most modern school in the capital and meets international standards. VietNamNet Bridge – The construction of Hanoi-Amsterdam High School has finished. This is considered the most modern school in the capital and meets international standards.   200...

Math wizard will use prize as seed money for scholarship fund

September 1, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Math wizard will use prize as seed money for scholarship fundProfessor Ngo Bao Chau has told VnExpress about his plan to set up a scholarship fund and the reason why he refused the gift of a villa at Tuan Chau island resort. VietNamNet Bridge – Professor Ngo Bao Chau has told VnExpress about his plan to set up a scholarship fund and the reason why he refused the gift of a villa at Tuan Chau island resort. Professor...

Disabled students require special teachers, facilities

August 31, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Disabled students require special teachers, facilitiesMOET has decided that 75 percent of disabled children will be educated by 2010, a figure that will increase to 90 percent by 2015. LookAtVietnam - The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), in the action plan for 2001-2015, decided that 75 percent of disabled children will be educated by 2010, a figure that will increase to 90 percent by 2015. However, this...

Who will enjoy 14.600 million dong preschool plan?

August 31, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Who will enjoy 14.600 million dong preschool plan?LookAtVietnam – Many educators have expressed their concern about the feasibility of the plan to universalize preschool education for 5-year-old children. LookAtVietnam - Many educators have expressed their concern about the feasibility of the plan to universalize preschool education for 5-year-old children, saying that it would be even more difficult to universalize...

Hundreds welcome Fields Medal winner Ngo Bao Chau back

August 28, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Hundreds welcome Fields Medal winner Ngo Bao Chau backLookAtVietnam - Hundreds of people came to Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport Saturday to welcome home Professor Ngo Bao Chau, who won the Fields Medal – popularly known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics – in India on August 19. Professor Ngo Bao Chau holds flowers presented by the general public at Noi Bai Airport, Hanoi on August 28, 2010 (Photo: Vietnam+) The...

Business for a cause

August 28, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Business for a causeLookAtVietnam - Vietnamese-American David Duong has spun gold from American trash. US President Barack Obama (L) and David Duong (R), whom Obama appointed to the Vietnamese Education Fund last February The slight, mustachioed entrepreneur made his fortune managing a recycling firm in California. Now, he’s hoping to afford opportunities in education...

Education is not the means to an end

August 28, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Education is not the means to an endFields Medal winner says the Vietnamese youth has to change its attitude towards education and develop a thirst for knowledge. VietNamNet Bridge - Fields Medal winner says the Vietnamese youth has to change its attitude towards education and develop a thirst for knowledge Professor Ngo Bao Chau (R) receives the Fields Medal from India President Pratibha...

Schools in Mekong Delta in need of teaching materials

August 27, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Schools in Mekong Delta in need of teaching materialsVietNamNet Bridge – Even normally cheap teaching materials are an unrealistic dream for many schools in the Mekong Delta. VietNamNet Bridge – Even normally cheap teaching materials are an unrealistic dream for many schools in the Mekong Delta. The schools in the Mekong Delta provinces lack classrooms and teaching materials, negatively affecting the...

New school year nears, classrooms still missing

August 26, 2010  Filed under Education, News

New school year nears, classrooms still missingmany schools in the Mekong Delta do not have enough classrooms, while students at other schools must study in dank and cramped rooms. VietNamNet Bridge – The official opening day of the new school year will come in early September. Yet many schools in the Mekong Delta do not have enough classrooms, while students at other schools must study in dank and cramped...

Vietnam’s new universities gamely chase after below-average students

August 25, 2010  Filed under Education, News

Vietnam’s new universities gamely chase after below-average studentsLookAtVietnam - Fearing they won’t fill their classrooms, private universities are fishing for students everywhere. Even high school graduates who got very low marks on the university entrance exams have been invited to study at some of these schools. High school graduates say they are unexpectedly receiving a lot of recruiting letters from some universities High...