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Students are keen to study economics and IT, but increasingly less interested in fields like mathematics and the sciences, leading professors to worry about Vietnam’s future technological strength. “When our faculty was divided into mathematics and information technology (IT), only four students remained to study math,” Associate Professor Dang Duc Trong at the HCM …
Though social institutions and families have made great efforts to help HIV-infected children integrate into society, they still have been unable to entirely remove the barrier of discrimination which has been keeping many students away from public schools. At 9 am on August 17, the managing board of An Nhon Dong Primary School in …
Violence at Vietnamese schools has been on the rise, say educators who argue that a lack of on-campus counseling could be part of the problem. Speaking at an international conference in Hanoi last week, Dr. Phan Mai Huong from the Institute of Psychology said school violence in Vietnam was getting more complicated and dangerous. Campus [...]
Vietnam’s public universities have not paid attention to building and developing their ‘brand names’ because the number of applicants has always been higher than the number of seats. Now they must compete for the best students with universities abroad. Vietnam’s universities don’t know who they are Vietnam’s public universities have not paid attention to building [...]
The Ministry of Education and Training will award full scholarships to study abroad for the first time. The ministry would also grant scholarships to students with top marks in each of the categories for fields of study categorised as A, B, C, D and V. Eligible students must have scored a perfect 30/30 in their [...]
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has discussed with French Ambassador to Vietnam Herve Bolot a number of issues on how to accelerate the establishment of the Hanoi University of Technology. The public Hanoi University of Technology, one of Vietnam’s research universities at international standards, will be built in the Hoa Lac high-tech zone under State [...]
The information about the discovery of the first flu outbreak at a school has worried management boards of many schools in Hanoi, who are considering delaying the opening of the new school year. The school that was the site of the wide-scale outbreak is Lomonosov High School in My Dinh new urban area. A male [...]
Two first-grade students attend class at Nguyen Binh Khiem Primary School, Ho Chi Minh City, in March. Ho Chi Minh City parents say a cut in full-day primary school classes will leave them with no way to supervise their kids for half the day. Parents say family life is being disrupted as Ho Chi Minh [...]
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 [...]