Education

Summer schools take heat off parents
22/06/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Children have been out of school for nearly a month, but many parents are still fumbling to find summer activities to keep them busy. Children enjoy themselves at a swimming pool in Ha Noi. They could be busy studying during the...
Students declaim against poor university facilities
21/06/2009 05:00
While universities have been trying to expand study branches and increase numbers of students every year, they have not paid appropriate attention to developing material facilities, to the ire of students. Saigon University has three bases...
Vietnam ready for ‘2-in-1’ exam?
21/06/2009 05:00
Opinions of educators still vary about whether Vietnam ought to do away with the separate high school final and university entrance exams next year and institute a ‘2-in1’ exam. The Ministry of Education and Training is now lobbying for one...
‘Study trip’ abroad is the ultimate summer holiday for high schoolers
21/06/2009 05:00
Quite a few Vietnamese parents don’t blink at paying several thousand dollars for their children’s summer trips abroad. They consider such trips as good preparation for overseas study later on. A four-week summer course in new York costs $5000...
From outcast to MIT
19/06/2009 05:00
Tran Ton Trung Son, 17, has won a scholarship to study artificial intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ostracized for his birth defects as a child, a young Agent Orange victim found solace in books. Though it’s all...
HCMC education fair to open next weekend
19/06/2009 05:00
The 2009 Ho Chi Minh City Education Development Festival will promote local and foreign schools at the Phu Tho Sports & Convention Event Hall in District 11 next weekend. The 2009 Ho Chi Minh City Education Development Festival will promote...
Vanishing vacations
19/06/2009 05:00
Busy working parents say they have no choice but to send their children to full-day classes during the summer holidays. Children play in the Ky Dong swimming pool in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 3. It’s 10:30 a.m. and five-year-old Mai...