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Experts say Vietnam ought to guide more teenagers toward blue collar skills training, rather than see them waste years failing to gain admission to college. Tien Phong Daily explains why. According to the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), 400,000 students fail high school final exams every year or pass the exams but do not [...]
Most universities and junior colleges in Vietnam do not meet current national standards on land area. Urban sites for training establishments in Vietnam remain very limited in contrast to the growing student population and the rapidly increasing number of educational institutions, especially in Hanoi. 2.04 square meters per student Hanoi has the highest concentration of [...]
They passed the university entrance exams and have arrived in Hanoi to follow their dream of higher education. Even before they register, however, a sizeable number of students are facing serious financial problems. Many have no idea how they will pay for their education over the next four years, according to this report from Dan [...]
HCM City Education and Training Department has organized recruitment campaigns twice to seek teachers for area schools. Yet some schools are rejecting teachers while others plead for more. “When we came to the education office in Binh Thanh district, we were told that district schools did not need teachers of ‘industrial techniques,’ but lacked teachers [...]
On August 24, a student at the HCM City Agriculture and Forestry University dumped five litres of acid onto Dang Huu Dung, 51, Deputy Dean of the Mechanics-Technology Faculty of the university. A wounded student at Thu Duc Hospital Witnesses related that while Dung was giving an English lecture to several hundred students, a young [...]
A quick survey of 120 university mathematics majors last school year showed that many of them wished to shift to other study branches, while others said they did not know what they would do after they graduate. The survey was conducted by the Mathematics-Informatics Faculty of the HCM City University of Natural Sciences. Associate Professor [...]
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 …
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 [...]