Education

Not doing well in school, 30,000 students drop out
10/03/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – MOET on March 10 released a report which said that in the first semester of the 2008-2009 school year, 86,269 students dropped out, or 0.56% of the total 15.3mil students nationwide. A lot of reasons have been cited to explain...
Vietnam, Belgium universities cooperate in postgraduate training
09/03/2009 05:00
The Hanoi University. VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s Hanoi University and Belgium’s University of Louvain La Neuve will organize a joint programme to provide French-language postgraduate training. An agreement to this effect was signed in...
More and more students learning less common foreign languages
09/03/2009 05:00
Nowadays, less common foreign languages are being taught everywhere, as the demand for learning these languages has been increasing. When asked why she decided to learn Italian, Cao Thuy Duong, a 2 nd year student of Hanoi University, said that...
Preparing children for exams toâ¦1st class
09/03/2009 05:00
The new school year will begin in September. However, right now, parents have become busy bringing their children to extra classes to prepare them for the first class. The annoucement for enrolling students for handwriting practice classes...
Hard times force kids to quit school
09/03/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Thousands of students in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are quitting school because of poverty and bad transportation. Every school and commune had taken measures to curb drop-out rates, with encouragement funds, charity funds or...
When teachers also have their blog
09/03/2009 05:00
Bloggers nowadays are not only teenagers and students, but they also could be the teachers who want to share their teaching resources via blogs. Teacher Tran Anh Huy’s website “I was ‘wandering’ on the Internet to look for interesting...
Hanoi to move universities to suburban areas
08/03/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Construction has submitted to the government a plan on relocating universities in the capital area until 2025 with vision to 2050. The ministry has predicted that by 2025, Hanoi will have 96 universities...