Education

Primary schools tap online learning aids
17/05/2011 05:00
More than 200 primary schools around Viet Nam have voted with their mouses by choosing to incorporate the innovative English teaching programme Phonics-Learning Box UK into their classes....
School headmasters authorized to allow students to skip grades
13/05/2011 05:00
The new regulation that school headmasters now have the right to make decisions on allowing students to skip grades has raised the worries that this would lead to a race among parents who rush to bring their children to school before age. From...
Teenagers wavering between going abroad and studying at domestic schools
12/05/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – Going abroad or studying at domestic universities is the question many students and parents ask themselves. The degrees of foreign universities will allow finding good jobs more easily, but the studying will be...
The “copy and paste” technology used widely in writing theses
12/05/2011 05:00
Many Vietnamese students now have to spend only half a day to write a thesis: they borrow the theses of the elder students, then “process” the theses by copying and pasting paragraphs to create theses of their own....
Classes for selected students tormenting students and parents
11/05/2011 05:00
Though the Ministry of Education and Training has decided to eliminate classes for selected students at grammar schools, such classes have existed for many years. The race for classes for selected students...
HCM City schools teach self-defence
10/05/2011 05:00
A slender HCM City schoolgirl has stunned everyone by not only single-handedly warding off two would-be bag snatchers but also wrestling them to the ground to have them arrested....
Hanoi parents anxious to send kids to prestigious schools
10/05/2011 05:00
Parents in Hanoi are anxiously pushing to acquire the best ‘seats’ in a first-grade prestigious school for their children, even though primary schools will only begin their enrollment in July. All parents understand that they have to open their...