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Government turns to private enterprise for education

 VietNamNet Bridge – Large enterprises have been encouraged to increase their cooperation with education institutions to increase the expertise of the Vietnamese workforce.

NA deputies to question cabinet members

Later this week the Minister of Education and Training and the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court will have to answer questions of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

Dirty toys attack schools

Despite the bans released by the Hanoi Education and Training Department, toxic and anti-education toys still have been brought to general schools.

Students feel anxious with new enlistment regulation

A lot of students have expressed their worry that with the new enlistment regulation, they would have the opportunities to follow the university education.

Educators offer to sell school to get money for debt payment

A school has been offered for sale since the investors cannot enroll students, cannot afford the high land leasing fee and the high bank loan interest rates.

Students spend millions of dong to invite teachers to New Year parties

Pre-Tet and Tet days prove to be the busiest days for students, because they have to move heaven and earth to arrange money to invite teachers to Tet parties.

Overseas study no guarantee of bright future

An opportunity to study abroad is a dream for many, but only a few manage to take advantage of this chance effectively.

Schools put on alert as they cannot recruit teachers

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City needs 3,049 teachers in the 2012-2013 academic year, but it only could find 2,000.

Juvenile crime may be tried in a separate court

VietNamNet Bridge - To deal with cases relating to minors that are increasingly, the Supreme People's Court is drafting a project on the establishment of the Family and Minor Court.

Principals of art schools applaud the idea of exempting literature exam

Art schools have all called for their autonomy in enrolling students. They want the right to decide how many students to receive and what exam subjects students need to take.

Vietnamese youth want to become white collar, not blue collar workers

While vocational schools play a very important role in the educational systems in other countries, experts have warned about the disappearance of the schools in Vietnam which cannot attract students.

The story about a teacher who says “I have HIV”

A teacher in the mountainous region bluntly stated “I am an HIV positive teacher” after many times of unsuccessfully trying to commit suicide

Teachers and students depressed about literature lessons

VietNamNet Bridge – Students find literature a boring subject, while teachers feel tired of teaching because there is no room for their creativeness.

Female student calls teacher “a monster”

Teachers complain that the democracy and the new education methods all have corrupted students nowadays. The students who insult teachers could only be the products of the modern times.

School shocks students with “the taboos when using Facebook”

“Do not use bad language, do not use Facebook to speak ill of anyone,” these are the regulations just set up by the Luong The Vinh High School, a “star” school in Hanoi.

Only students from rich families can study at economics schools

VietNamNet Bridge – The students, who follow economics related majors, would have to pay 100 percent of tuitions, if a project being considered by the Ministry of Education & Training and Finance comes true.

Education needs priority in midland, northern mountainous provinces

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Vinh Hien, Deputy Minister of Education and Training, called for higher priority in the field of education and training in the midland and northern mountainous provinces.

Student expelled from school for abusing teacher

An eighth grader in Quang Nam province has been expelled from school for her serious misconduct of calling for anti-first semester exam actions.

Only a few of general schools in Vietnam can meet standards

The new standards for general education accreditation applied as of January 2013 have made schools puzzled, because they don’t know what they have to do to be recognized as the national standard schools.

University students get puzzled with English skill standards

A lot of students complained that though they have fulfilled the training curricula, they still cannot graduate from universities, because they cannot meet the requirements in the English skills stipulated by the schools.