Only one percent of students choose to study Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or German as their first foreign language. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese parents once thought that sending their children to overseas schools was the best choice to help them make their way in the world. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Universities are focusing on enrolling students in majors which are easy to teach and learn and do not require high investments in facilities and laboratories.

Vietnam has vowed to improve students’ English skills by pouring trillions of dong into English teaching programs, but the majority of university graduates cannot communicate in English.

VietNamNet Bridge - Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha said at a conference on upgrading university education that school training quality was one of the reasons behind the high unemployment rate of bachelor’s degree graduates.

VietNamNet Bridge - The educational sector has been blamed for the unemployment of 200,000 university graduates, among other issues. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Students, who are furious about their theses sold on the cheap, have asked for intervention from school management boards.

Winning high prizes at the 2016 IJSO, Nguyen Ngoc Duc, Nguyen Nga Nhi and Phan Minh Duc said the passion for scientific research helped them win the world’s most prestigious science competition for under-15 students.

VietNamNet Bridge - A group of students from FPT University has defended their graduation thesis with ‘Hummingbird’, an ‘aircraft’ which allows users to take selfies tens of meters above with their smartphones.

VietNamNet Bridge - School violence has caused problems in the Vietnamese educational sector in recent years. An eighth grader, for example, committed suicide after being beaten and humiliated in front of friends.

VietNamNet Bridge - Educators argue that it is unreasonable to blame the education sector for the high number of unemployed university graduates.

VietNamNet Bridge - ViOlympic, an online math competition for primary and secondary school students, has raised controversy among parents.

VietNamNet Bridge - New Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha took office in April 2016.

VietNamNet Bridge - In developed countries, high school students study four to five subjects, while Vietnamese students have 14.

VietNamNet Bridge - Some Vietnamese companies have confirmed they are willing to offer monthly pay of $2,000 to new university graduates.

VietNamNet Bridge -  As the number of enrichment training classes have been increasing, class organisers are making big profits. But students are losing money.

Some universities have expressed concern about the new 3-5 year training model for university education, saying that only the best students would be able to finish the curricula within three years. 

VietNamNet Bridge - HCMC cannot find enough teachers for its nursery schools as low salaries and hard work have kept high school graduates away.

VietNamNet Bridge - Universities have shown strong opposition against MOET’s intervention in their enrollment plans, saying that it should be the work of schools.

VietNamNet Bridge - The common characteristics of most of the 200,000 unemployed university graduates are the low level of professional knowledge and work skills.