Education

A scarlet “S” for second-rate teachers?
22/09/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Many teachers in Phan Rang-Thap Cham City in Ninh Thuan province have been forced to wear labels to indicate that they are “substandard teachers” For the 2009-2010 academic year, all teachers in the city who do not meet education...
Should schools share blame for killer kids?
21/09/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – With an increase in violence in High Schools it’s increasingly being asked, should schools take their share of the blame? Experts call on schools to take strictrer control over their students Vo Van Phuong, 15, a student of...
Gaming the university: a couple of freshmen share their plans for success
21/09/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – How will students spend their four years at university? Sinh Vien Viet Nam interviews some representatives. Tran Hoang Quan, a first year student at the Hanoi Foreign Trade University’s School of International Trade...
First grade students learning to run before learning to walk
21/09/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese first grade students now are expected to write Vietnamese ‘dictations’ and pronounce English words fluently in the first weeks of the school year. Tuoi tre reporters visited some primary schools in HCM City to see...
HCMC primary school packs off students on dubious grounds
20/09/2009 05:00
Many parents are up in arms after a primary school in HCM City’s Hoc Mon District transferred more than 100 children to another school citing lack of rooms. The dangerous-looking spiral staircase at Tay Bac Lan Primary School, where more than 100...
Snags in career guidance for pupils
19/09/2009 05:00
More than 70 percent of senior high school pupils do not receive adequate advice about their future career. Only 8.1 percent intend to undergo vocational training while up to 82 percent want to enter university, according to the Ministry of...
HCM City lacks qualified elementary teachers
18/09/2009 05:00
The new school year opened with the failure of the education sector to supply sufficient teachers for HCM City’s elementary schools. To cope with the situation, many districts have had no choice but assign the task of teaching elementary...