Many parents are so worried about the upcoming exam that they are putting pressure on their children.

Many questions related to math studies were raised during Admission Counseling Day. Will knowledge about integrals, derivatives, trigonometric equations and logarithms be useful in people’s future lives and work?

Head of the Primary School Department under the Ministry of Education and Training Thai Van Tai talks about changes in regulations relating to the organisation, management and operation of primary schools.

The State spends big money to build and operate schools for the gifted, but many people think it is a waste of resources.

Dr Nguyen Duc Thanh believes that the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted should be closed down or sold to private investors.

Whether to maintain schools for the gifted is an annual topic of discussion among many parents.

There are at least 16 national and international competitions in math for students from the first to the 12th grades. Many of them are believed to be useless.

Vietnam is not listed in the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) ranking, though it had better overall results than previous years.

State-invested education remains the backbone of the national education system, though Vietnam has been calling for investment from different sectors for many years.

In Vietnam, students good at math and sciences are praised and considered excellent students. But those who excel at music or dance receive far fewer compliments.

There are numerous ‘international schools’, but state management agencies say all of them are not recognized as ‘international’.

Beginning in the 2020-2021 academic year, the new general education program will be applied throughout the country. MOET has begun receiving applications for textbooks compiled by organizations and individuals.

Modern educators advise parents not to teach kids to read and write before they begin going to school.

 National Assembly deputies are still arguing about the ‘one program, many sets of textbooks’ principle they approved five years ago.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Education Publishing House has finally stated that it will not raise textbook prices for the 2019-2020 academic year. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many problems face Vietnam’s education sector, but they do not represent the entire system, analysts say.

Many state-owned schools with financial autonomy and non-state schools in Hanoi are considering raising tuition after local authorities permitted state-owned schools to increase the fee by VND110,000 a month for the 2017-2018 academic year.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City’s students will follow the lessons in textbooks to be published by the HCM City education and training department, instead of those compiled by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) for all schools in Vietnam.

Numerous teachers in math, physics, chemistry and literature are looking for jobs at HCM City high schools, but the demand is modest.