Posts Tagged ‘ City Education ’

Tension builds between students and teachers

December 8, 2009
Tension builds between students and teachers

LookAtVietnam – The stories of teachers punishing students, creating deep psychological and physical wounds, have been reported by Vietnamese media recently. Students of Thai Binh private run school in HCM CityDTT, who teaches living skills at a high school in Tan Binh District in HCM City, said students nowadays do not have basic skills. They [...]

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Non-state high schools must upgrade or die

November 30, 2009
Non-state high schools must upgrade or die

LookAtVietnam – Non-existent and ill-equipped classrooms, few students and low pass rates are the outstanding features of non-state high schools in HCM City. Many new non-state high schools have appeared in HCM City recently, seven schools in 2009 alone. An estimated 32,000 students are studying at these schools, accounting for 17.7 percent of the city’s [...]

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Is homework finished in Hanoi?

November 9, 2009
Is homework finished in Hanoi?

LookAtVietnam – Hanoi has decided that teachers must not assign homework to day students. Yet other parents insist that homework is necessary. The parent of the student of Nguyen Du School stated said that her child usually finished doing homework at 11 pm, leaving the child no time to relax or to “just be a [...]

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MOET and HCM City education department support new teaching method

October 14, 2009
MOET and HCM City education department support new teaching method

LookAtVietnam – Officials of MOET have  voiced their support for the experiment, reports the newswire Dan Tri.  Le Tien Thanh, Director of MOET’s Primary Education Department, said the new teaching method, which is small-group centered and emphasizes active learning, has been commended to schools by the ministry.   “I can point out many good points of [...]

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Group classification-based education scheme at death’s door

September 3, 2009
Group classification-based education scheme at death’s door

LookAtVietnam – High schools have reported that very few students have registered to study under the natural-sciences or social-sciences major curriculums. In the first two school years after the group classification-based education scheme was put into operation on a trial basis, Mac Dinh Chi High School had 530 students who registered for natural sciences major [...]

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Teacher recruitment missing the mark

August 28, 2009
Teacher recruitment missing the mark

LookAtVietnam – HCM City authorities have organized recruitment campaigns twice to seek teachers for area schools. Yet some schools are rejecting teachers while others plead for more. Director of the HCM City Education and Training Department Huynh Cong Minh said that from the 2009-2010 school year, the recruitment will be decentralized with district’s education sub-departments [...]

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Lacking medical workers, schools on guard against flu epidemic

August 20, 2009
Lacking medical workers, schools on guard against flu epidemic

LookAtVietnam – There are some 2,000-4,000 students in every school, while there are only one or two medical workers. This problem has become more serious in the flu epidemic. Checking student’s temperatureIn the morning on August 18, Saigon tiep thi reporters witnessed 10 students of Nguyen Khuyen Private High School going to see doctor Pham [...]

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HCM City lacks 600 primary school teachers

August 14, 2009
HCM City lacks 600 primary school teachers

LookAtVietnam – Primary schools in HCM City are complaining that their schools are overloaded with overly high numbers of first-grade students. Primary schools in Tan Binh district have had to halve the number of day-boarding classes (students learn at school both in the morning and afternoon) in order to have enough seats for all 7,000 [...]

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High school entrance exams mishandled

July 29, 2009
High school entrance exams mishandled

Many students have been shocked when receiving the results of their high school entrance exams. Errors in putting exam scores into databases have led to the discipline of department of education officials.  The exam scores Thao got in the entrance exam to 10th gradeThe story began when Nguyen Thi Thanh Thao, a 9th grade student [...]

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HCM eliminates day-boarding classes, worrying thousands of parents

July 28, 2009
HCM eliminates day-boarding classes, worrying thousands of parents

A lot of districts in HCM City are considering eliminating day-boarding classes in order to get more classrooms for 1st grade students this fall. As the number of students entering first grade this year represents a dramatic increase due to the high number of children born in 2003, the year of the Goat, HCM City’s [...]

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...