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The thing shared by Nguyen Chi Dung, who came first on the entrance exam to enter Hanoi Medical University, Ha Khuong Duy, the first ethnic minority student to win a gold medal at the Mathematics International Olympiad, and Luu Thi Dung, whose father begged for a living, is – eagerness to learn. Nguyen Chi Dung: [...]
Deputy Chairwoman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang, when answering a question by the city’s People’s Council late last week, acknowledged that Hanoi is now seriously lacking state-owned nursery schools. Hang, when admitting to the lack of schools, said that it is unavoidable since the land area of the four districts in [...]
With the current number of children, Hanoi is lacking 700,000 square metres for pre-school classes. The lack of classes has led to the fact that 65-70 children have to share the same class, while the current regulations stipulate that a class must not have more than 35 children. The report by the Hanoi People’s Committee [...]
Nguyen Thanh Tinh (L) studies for his university entrance exams with his friend Le Lanh at their boarding house in Thu Duc District, HCM City. Not everybody who sat this year’s university entrance exams came straight from school. For some who failed last year’s exams, the key to a better education is to never give [...]
Nearly 600,000 students across the country today, July 9, are sitting for the second round of the university entrance exams. The first exams were for A group (mathematics, physics, chemistry) students; the second exams are for B (mathematics, chemistry, biology), C (literature, history, geography), D (mathematics, literature and foreign languages) and V groups (3 …
National university entrance exams are not the exams of examinees only, but of the whole country. A lot of parents have decided to stop vending for several days to bring their children to exams. Other parents have put aside busy works in rural areas and left for big cities together with their children, who will [...]
Students always complain about lack of time, but spending most of their time chatting and sleeping – these are the problems of students nowadays, dubbed ‘students diseases’. The old gossip At 4 pm every day, university campuses are full of students in groups of five or seven. They are students taking advantage of ‘good weather’ [...]
Students do not want to become computer science teachers, while teachers of informatics feel discouraged with their jobs because of low pay and the lack of promotion opportunities. “It has really been difficult for the last few years to recruit informatics teachers. HCM City is still lacking teachers,” said Van Cong Sang, Head of the [...]
Parents of five-year-olds are forcing their children to attend pre-school in order to give them a head start when entering Grade 1, despite the fact that it is illegal. Ha Noi’s Department of Education and Training last week issued an instruction, banning pre-school classes for five-year-olds who are entering Grade 1 in September. But parents, [...]
It is quite normal to have more children entering school every year. However, the increase in the number of 1st year primary school students this year is believed to be the highest ever. Predictably, there will be negative impacts on education quality. 15 to 25 percent increase foreseen Experts are warning that a record high [...]