Education

Parents prefer private primary and secondary schools to state-owned ones
09/05/2011 05:00
Private schools have become more attractive than state owned schools in the eyes of high income parents, who demand high quality education services for their children. Flocking to enroll in private schools For the last two months, every...
Pronounced improvement
09/05/2011 05:00
The Ha Noi Department of Education and Training said it had helped to improve pronunciation and spelling of Vietnamese in primary schools in the capital with its new teaching programme. Nguyen Tri Dung, deputy head of the Primary...
Few takers for technical schools in Vietnam
07/05/2011 05:00
Technical universities in South Vietnam are on the look out for students as they are increasingly finding it difficult to motivate students to study for any major in their university. Departments of education and training in the country will...
Kids not the only ones to blame on when students play truant
06/05/2011 05:00
Though students understand well that truancy means violations of the rules, and that this will lead to a knowledge gap, they still try to escape from lessons, because they cannot find joys at learning and cannot find support from families....
Vietnamese mothers prefer bringing up children with western style
06/05/2011 05:00
Vietnamese mothers of the modern times, who return from overseas training courses, or have the opportunities to learn about western cultures, now prefer bringing up children with western style, believing that the western style is better for their children than...
Degrading teacher’s qualification causes headache
05/05/2011 05:00
Educators have rung the alarm bell over the quality of teachers, stressing that the qualification degrading should be seen a big worry for Vietnam’s education. Literature teachers misspell, physics teachers give wrong...
Math question for 3rd graders makes people puzzled
05/05/2011 05:00
A mathematics question has been posted on Internet for the last several days, which is believed a question for third graders. However, hundreds of thousands of people still wonder how to solve the question. The mathematics question is as follows:...