Education

School subsidies benefit rich over poor
22/03/2011 05:00
The richer the parents, the more they benefit from State subsidies for preschool education. Conversely, their poorer counterparts pay as much if not more for lower quality schooling. This is the paradox that has...
Students use of mobile phones causes headache to adults
22/03/2011 05:00
Parents still have to allow their children to use mobile phones. Teachers also say they seem to be powerless to the “mobile phone addiction” of their students. Pham Ha Thanh at No 210 Le Trong Tan street in Hanoi decided to buy a...
Vietnamese children and the “stolen childhood”
22/03/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – Never before have Vietnamese children had to live in conditions like today. The traffic is chaotic, petrol fumes are heavy, and cooking is unsafe, while children have to struggle against risks stalking at home and at school, or...
Vietnamese students honored in Australia
19/03/2011 05:00
With marks of 99.9, Truong Manh Tue has become the top laureate of Homebush High School in New South Wales, Australia, for the 2010 graduation exams. This is the highest point earner to enter a university in Australia. Out of nearly 1000 foreign...
Twelfth graders forced to cram for exam
19/03/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge - To compete for high pass rates in the high school graduation exam to be held nationwide in June, many high schools in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are forcing their students to cram. A parent complained that her child, a student at...
Schools urged to improve foreign language training to meet IT’s demand
19/03/2011 05:00
Software companies have called on schools to strongly reform the training of foreign languages for the information technology (IT) sector. They believe that it is necessary to compel the schools, which provide the labor force for the software industry, to teach...
Vietnamese students in Japan relying on social networks on earthquake and tsunami days
17/03/2011 05:00
Social networks have become important for fellow-travellers and Vietnamese students that connect students with the outside world and relatives in Vietnam, helping them survive and wait for aid....