Education

Int’l schools to fall under Education Law
27/11/2009 05:00
International schools will be regulated by the Education Law from July 1 next year under amendments approved by the National Assembly on Wednesday. Students at the United Nations International School of Hanoi. The schools will be controlled...
Online lesson plans linking up teachers and impressing students
26/11/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Online lesson plans have become a familiar concept, as more and more teachers share lesson plans on the internet with colleagues and students. Search for “giao an dien tu” (online lesson plans) and there are plenty of results....
Vietnam advised to weed out the majority of universities
26/11/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Professor Dr Tran Thanh Van believes that Vietnam should remove many universities and keep the best only. The Professor was interviewed by Dan Tri newspaper in Vietnam , when he returned to attend the first conference for...
Waiters – the most important investment for hotels and resorts
26/11/2009 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – Investors spending big on hotel and resorts are still spending small on staff training. Receptionists themselves are the people who most meet and communicate with guests Ha Kim Vong, headmaster of the Khoi Viet Tourism...
The only male nursery school teacher in Vietnam
23/11/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – If you visit Duc Tho town’s nursery school you might see a man carefully spoon-feeding children and covering them with blankets. He is Luong Xuan Phong, believed to be the only male nursery school teacher in Vietnam ....
Tutoring centres ignore official paperwork
22/11/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Tutoring centres have been mushrooming after MOET tightened regulations on afterschool lessons. The headquarter of DDS-K tutoring centre Most tutoring centres promise to provide “experienced and enthusiastic tutors.” But...
Dismal teacher salaries unequal to workload
22/11/2009 05:00
LookAtVietnam – Under current regulations, every primary school teacher holds 23 teaching sessions per week. Still, they must work 2-4 times harder now. A typical day for Pham Thi Thanh Phi, a teacher at Dinh Tien Hoang Primary School in...