December 22, 2011
A young girl in northern Vietnam. Ethnic minorities account for 13 percent of Vietnam's population, but 44.4 percent of the country's poor. © Alisa Tang/IRIN. For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen’s ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her questions. As the [...]
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September 10, 2011
NGO Loreto officer Stephanie Nicole Giles poses for a photo with the kids after giving them packs of gift at Vo Van Thoi Primary School in Hoc Mon District on Sept 7 The Loreto Vietnam-Australia Program (LVAP) donated notebooks and pens to over 1,600 kids at seven primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City on [...]
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August 28, 2011
11-year-old Pham Thanh Ngoc gets her math homework checked by a local math teacher. The girl recently applied for a public high school Pham Thanh Ngoc did not drop out of school. She just refused to go to school, from kindergarten onward. However, Ngoc’s reluctance to attend school was not of the usual variety. It [...]
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May 20, 2011
Photos from a Greenpeace aerial survey mission over Indonesia’s Sumatra Island last October show rainforest in the Sungai Sembilang National Park (left) while nearby a lone tree remains after forest was cut and cleared. Indonesia on Friday banned logging in primary forests and peatlands for two years as part of a $1 billion deal with [...]
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December 26, 2009
Nimura Michiko sets an example in a physical education class at Tan My Primary School.LookAtVietnam – Japanese teacher Nimura Michiko says she’s been the one doing the learning in classes at a remote northern Vietnamese school. “It is actually me who has learned lots of things about culture and love from the students,” said Michiko [...]
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December 22, 2009
Nimura Michiko sets an example in a physical education class at Tan My Primary School. Japanese teacher Nimura Michiko says sheâs been the one doing the learning in classes at a remote northern Vietnamese school. âIt is actually me who has learned lots of things about culture and love from the students,â said Michiko when [...]
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December 14, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Under the new regulations, the working hours of teachers only includes the time they spend in front of a classroom. Currently, a high school teacher is assigned 17 teaching hours per week, while the figure is 23 hours for primary school teachers. These are hours they spend in front of the classroom [...]
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December 2, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of parents complain that students nowadays have too much to learn. Ngoc Son in Phu Nhuan district (HCM City) was in a cold sweat. He felt ashamed because he could not solve the mathematics problem the boy asked him to help solve. “I couldn’t think what to say,” he said. “Finally, [...]
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November 13, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of students from flood stricken areas in Phu Yen and Binh Dinh provinces are returning to empty schools. Students of Hoi Phu School clean their class to prepare for lessons. Photo was taken on November 12While the buildings themselves have survived the floods the contents have been dispersed. There are no pens, [...]
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November 10, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Sporadic school reports may have been bad news for some pupils, but it just got worse – electronic reports can now be sent almost daily. Traditionally in Vietnamese schools the school report was in book form – carried around in the school bag and filled in as often as once a month, parents [...]
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