Education

Exam prep classes go online
29/05/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – ”Just a click and you’ll enter our virtual knowledge world which will enable you to make every dream come true,” ABCDoneline.vn, an online study website for Vietnamese high-school students, claims. Students in Ha Noi prepare for...
Alarm bells ring over quality of continuing education programmes
28/05/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – MOET’s inspectors have found that the training programmes offered by provincial ‘continuing education centres’ in association with universities and colleges are of uncertain quality. In Hai Duong province, the Continuing...
MOET renovating teaching method for “citizenship education”
28/05/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training is reviewing the curriculum for the “citizenship education” subject, which has been complained about by teachers and students as being boring and difficult to understand. The examination...
Abuse in school: Traces of feudal times remain?
27/05/2009 05:00
Putting down a student in front of the class, giving punishments if children take more than seven minutes bathing and slapping students’ faces – these prove to be things that occur regularly at many schools nowadays. Teachers need to encourage...
Taking advantage of economic crisis to study overseas
27/05/2009 05:00
For many families, the present proves to be a good time to send their children abroad to study. Experts say if students “take full advantage of the crisis”, they can save as much as 100 million dong a year. Vietnamese students in the UK (Photo:...
Teacher shortage looms in arts, computer science
27/05/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Schools in HCM City are in dire need of teachers for music, arts and computer science, city officials have said. Children at a music lesson. The city is facing a shortage of teachers in computer science, arts and music. Van Cong...
Lifeskills must be taught in schools
26/05/2009 05:00
It is not uncommon nowadays to come across reports about students committing suicide. The lack of lifeskills training renders students, especially in their adolescence, incapable of responding maturely to problems in life. It is not...