Education

Standards for 5-year-old children need to be based on fact
08/02/2009 05:00
The standards for 5-year-old children, drafted by the Ministry of Education and Training, which has been opened for collecting opinions, has raised controversy. These include 29 standards, with 125 indices in four fields, which 5-year-old children...
Teachers to get rural experience
08/02/2009 05:00
Look At Vietnam – A new project rotating teachers in and out of remote and mountainous areas will kick off soon, according to Pham Manh Hung, a senior official at the Ministry of Education and Training. A class at Ngai Thau Primary School in the...
Vocational schools urged to publicise graduation standards
06/02/2009 05:00
Look At Vietnam – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has asked vocational training schools to publicise their standards regarding graduation, curricula and resources in order to ensure continued high-quality training. The...
5-year-olds have to know their ABCs: MOET
05/02/2009 05:00
MOET has released draft standards for the skill development of 5-year-old children, which says that children of this age need to have good pronunciation and must be able to count to ten. MOET has released the draft standards in order to help...
Standards for 5-year-old children problematic: experts
05/02/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – Many of the indices are unnecessary, others unfeasible, vague or identical — experts have expressed their views about the draft standards for the development of 5-year-old children. Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet, Headmaster of Kim...
How to minimise ‘virtual’ candidates?
04/02/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – MOET said that it plans to propose raising the exam fee collected from those who register to take university entrance exams in order to minimise the number of ‘virtual’ examinees. MOET tries to minimise the number of virtual...
Overseas Vietnamese struggle with language
04/02/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam – Twenty-year-old Ta Dinh Khoa and his younger brother Ta Dinh Son have come to visit Viet Nam after 15 years of living in Germany. Upon arrival, reality hit them hard and both were forced to grapple with significant obstacles. Children...