LookAtVietnam – Schools at all levels should be required by law to publicise detailed information about their curricula, teaching methods, staff, tuition fees and performance, delegates said at a recent two-day conference.

The need to publicise information would enhance the community’s supervision and also make it easier for management agencies to evaluate a school’s quality.

The conference was held in HCM City to gather views on amendments and supplements to the Education Law.

If schools were to announce the number of graduates who have obtained jobs intermediately after graduation, students would be able to make better choices, he said.

The need to publicise information would enhance the community’s supervision and also make it easier for management agencies to evaluate a school’s quality, he added.

Huong said the law should also specify the responsibilities of schools’ principals who generally have the right to chose curricula and review them in order to ensure supply of sufficient teaching documents.

Many small-sized educational establishments which have just begun operations were faced with difficulties in compiling teaching curricula which in turn impacted teaching quality, he said.

Delegates at the conference suggested that schools specialising in the same areas at the same level could work together to compile curricula in order to save time and money.

Several delegates also wanted legal amendments aimed at universalising primary school education, making the training period for Master’s degree courses more flexible, granting tuition fee exemptions for students who attend teaching courses and pedagogy schools, and increasing salaries and allowance for teachers. They felt these changes were necessary for the nation’s education system to keep pace with changing demands and to improve its quality.

According Luong Ngoc Toan, former deputy head of CCEYC, Viet Nam’s education system has many shortcomings apparent in textbook content. It had also many management fallacies that need to be corrected, he said.

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