As anticipated, soon after the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) removed the floor mark scheme, some universities decided to admit students who got only an 11 score on three exam subjects.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many foreign teachers at foreign language centers do not have teaching certificates.

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education was introduced for the first time in Vietnam six years ago, targeting the high-end markets in large cities and focused on robotics and coding.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly VND1 trillion is spent to organize national high-school final exams every year, a relatively high amount of money for Vietnam. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Education experts have warned that university enrollment will be ‘in tumult’ this year as the floor mark scheme has been removed.

This year’s enrollment season has been stressful for tens of thousands of parents and students. The race to enter high schools has never been so competitive.

Bad management, substandard teachers, poor facilities, unobserved regulations and loose supervision. This is how Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha described household-run nursery establishments at the latest National Assembly session.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam universities’ training quality and scientific research capacity both are still very weak.

While The Ministry of Education and Training insists on the 2-in-1 exam model, education experts doubt its feasibility, saying that it is unreasonable to merge two exams with different purposes – high school finals and university entrance exams.

VietNamNet Bridge - A fake bachelor’s degree can be obtained in a few days, because the technique of counterfeiting degrees is now very sophisticated. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi has announced it will begin implementing a double-qualification training program for high school in the 2018-2019 academic year. However, many problems still exist.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has been criticized for including difficult questions on this year’s high school final exams, in contrast to last year when it faced criticism for easy questions. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Real estate developers have built more urban areas in Hanoi, but they have not included schools in the areas. 

Training establishments confirm that they have discovered five to seven fake bachelor’s degrees a week. All types of degrees can be counterfeited, from driving licenses to foreign language certificates.

The total expense that one student may have to pay for study overseas is no less than VND2 billion. If the student later finds a job with the monthly salary of VND20 million, he or she would only be able to cover expenses after 10 years.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is building up a plan on removing the governing mechanism to be applied on a trial basis at three universities. 

MOET says that tertiary education quality is low partially because of the low tuition. 

Hanoi Economics University, HCM City Economics University and Hanoi University of Science & Technology are considering a policy which would allow them to become independent from the Ministry of Education & Training (MOET).

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City National University and Hanoi National University have been listed in QS Ranking 2019. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Data, algorithms and a good workforce are the three prerequisites that will determine the quality of AI products, according to experts.