December 12, 2011
More than 200,000 students quit school every year, threatening dire consequences for Vietnam’s human-resource base Two shoeshine boys in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh San had to quit secondary school and move to Ho Chi Minh City two years ago to wash dishes at his aunt’s eatery to earn money and support [...]
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August 30, 2011
Deputy head of Hanoi Department of Education and Training Pham Thi Hong Nga speaks at a Tuesday meeting on illegal collection of extra fees at local schools. Hanoi education officials on Tuesday said many schools in the city have been charging students illegal fees, many of which are disguised as "voluntary" money. Â Some fees [...]
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June 27, 2011
The education ministry Friday asked authorities in Mekong Delta provinces to punish those responsible for not following its marking instructions during the recently concluded high school graduation exams. Â The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) said it had allowed leaders of marking councils in 11 provinces to hold a meeting to discuss its [...]
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June 23, 2011
Students check the results of their high school graduation exams at the Marie Curie High School, Ho Chi Minh City, on Thursday. The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on Saturday issued a statement expressly banning any instructions than the ones that it has issued for marking the recently held high school graduation exams. Â [...]
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June 12, 2011
A student browses at the Fahasa bookstore in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. A new VND70 trillion (US$3.4 billion) project to renovate Vietnam’s academic programs and textbooks has drawn flak from experts and educators. Experts and educators have voiced concerns over a VND70 trillion (US$3.4 billion) project that will revamp Vietnam’s academic programs and [...]
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January 15, 2011
A computer science class at a high school in the northern province of Quang Ninh All education and training institutions in Vietnam with access to electricity have free access to the Internet, and this is a singular achievement, says Quach Tuan Ngoc, head of the Ministry of Education and Training’s Information and Technology Department. Ngoc [...]
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December 11, 2010
Students of Xuan La Kindergarten in Tu Liem District, Hanoi Without proper preparation, a recently-launched project to make pre-school education compulsory at the age of five may leave younger kids in the lurch.  The VND14.6 trillion (US$748.91 million) project, launched in August, will require all public kindergartens to admit five-year-old children.  The schools are only allowed to admit students under [...]
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November 8, 2010
The Ministry of Education and Training has announced that it will spend more than VND2.3 trillion (US$117.98 million) on a project to develop the countryâs high schools for the gifted by 2020.  Under the ten-year project, target schools will have their infrastructure upgraded, including increasing the study area for each student to 30 square [...]
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January 25, 2010
Students from the University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City wait to sit their semester exams. Vietnamese education needs to focus on the practical everyday needs of the economy, experts said, eschewing the long-held belief that the country must strive to create an âAmerican-styleâ or âworld-classâ university. There is no perfect model for building [...]
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January 21, 2010
Vietnam seeks WIPO assistance; French Ambassador honoured for educational contributions; Dominican party names office after Ho Chi Minh; Vietnam, Algeria promote friendship, cooperation Vietnam seeks WIPO assistance Vietnam hopes to receive more assistance from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), especially to finalise its legal system on intellectual property (IP) and train IP officials.State President [...]
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