LookAtVietnam – When declaring the standard quality of graduates, all schools mention the standards on soft skills. However, in fact, the schools have not paid attention to teach soft skills to students. Soft skills taught just in extracurricular subject Dr Le Thi Thanh Mai, Head of the Students’ Affair Division of the HCM City National [...]
LookAtVietnam – University and junior college lecturers would get several million dong in Tet bonuses this year. Especially, a university offered the Tet bonus of 70 million dong. University lecturers always feel jealous with the workers of enterprises because workers always get higher salaries and higher Tet bonuses. However, they would feel better with this [...]
LookAtVietnam – National excellent students are the best students of the nations who deserve to be gloried. However, in many cases, students have to pay a too “heavy price” for their achievements. Excellent students also⦠have to pay money In principle, the members of the teams to join national competitions for excellent students are the [...]
LookAtVietnam – It’s now the time for universities to sprint to look for more lecturers to meet the new requirements of the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), under which the number of students the schools can enroll depend on the material facilities and the teaching staff. Under a new regulation set up by MOET, [...]
LookAtVietnam – University lecturers have recently voiced their concern that Vietnam’s education has been “staying alone” and it does not have the international connection. Speaking at a recent workshop on education renovation, Dr Nguyen The Hung from the Hanoi Agriculture University, said that Vietnam’s education and training do not resemble to any other education in [...]
LookAtVietnam – High school students who take part in the national foreign language competition this year will have to take a speaking test for the first time, announced head of the Ministry of Education’s Educational Testing and Quality Assessment Department Ngo Kim Khoi. During the 10-minute speaking test, students will have seven minutes to listen [...]
LookAtVietnam – In June 2010, the government approved a plan to train 20,000 PhDs in the next 10 years. In December 2011, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) submitted the plan on human resource development, which says by 2020, Vietnamese universities would have 29,000 PhDs. The ambitious plans set up by the government and [...]
Hundreds of students accompanied by parents flocked to the Raffles International School on Nguyen Van Troi Street in Phu Nhuan District of Ho Chi Minh City on Jan 6, after some programmes run by the school had been terminated by the ministry. A representative from the school said that they had informed students of [...]
LookAtVietnam – Vu Minh Quang, father of a seventh grader at Trung Nhi Junior Secondary School, noticed a contradiction in his son’s English. An English lesson is supported by multimedia equipment at Cat Linh Primary School in Ha Noi. Statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training show that a large number of students are [...]
LookAtVietnam – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has instructed universities to cut down the number of non-regular training students and prohibited universities to provide vocational training, hoping that the drastic measure would help upgrade the university training quality. Reduction in quantity would lead to improvement in quality Head of the Training Division of [...]
