Education

Too many students taking university entrance exams
30/08/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Thousands of students fail the university entrance exams every year. This is a big waste for the society. Nearly 800,000 examinees taking the university entrance exams in July got marks below the floor mark, which means that they...
Education brings hope in disabled abyss
29/08/2009 05:00
Tuan is teaching mathematics and physics and hopes his lessons will help his students achieve high marks in all examinations. Hundreds of bicycles are arranged outside, property of the high school students settling in to a large bright room....
Reference books more like cheat-sheets, educators say
28/08/2009 05:00
So-called “reference books” containing answers to school textbook questions and sample essays are helping kids cheat in school, according to educators. Parents and students have begun relying more on such books than on actual school exercises and...
Teacher recruitment missing the mark
27/08/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – HCM City authorities have organized recruitment campaigns twice to seek teachers for area schools. Yet some schools are rejecting teachers while others plead for more. Director of the HCM City Education and Training Department Huynh Cong...
What has happened to the teacher-student relationship?
27/08/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – News that a college student flung five liters of acid at a teacher has raised a wave of indignation among educators, students and ordinary people. A student of the HCM City Agriculture and Forestry University related the story...
Lecturers are deficient in quantity and weak in quality
26/08/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam now has 376 universities and junior colleges, but it has only 320 lecturers who have PhDs and fewer than 2,000 associate professors. University lecturers are deficient in quantity and weak in quality — the Ministry of...
Disgruntled student splashes teacher with acid
25/08/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – On August 24, a student at the HCM City Agriculture and Forestry University dumped five litres of acid onto a lecturer of the university. A wounded student at Thu Duc Hospital Witnesses related that while Dung was giving an...