The Hanoi Education and Training Department has announced that it will take unexpected inspection tours to privately run nursery schools in Hanoi amid complaints about the low quality of schools.

Eighteen teachers at Nam Trung Yen Primary School in Hanoi have criticized the school’s headmaster Ta Thi Bich Ngoc for providing false information to the public about a student whose leg was broken in a car accident in the school.

The father of the schoolboy whose was leg broken said that he asked for help from the Ministry of Education and Training and the Hanoi Education and Training, but there has been no reply.

VietNamNet Bridge - Eighty percent of students say they have suffered from gender-based violence at least once, while 71 percent of students have been affected by school violence in the last six months. 

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

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 - Local students are so busy they don’t have time to have meals at home, and instead sometimes eat while on motorbikes when they are taken to school or extra classes by their parents.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) initiative to include citizenship education as a high-school final exam subject would help ease school violence.

VietNamNet Bridge - Strengthening psychological counseling and providing both teachers and students with necessary skills in the classroom are important measures to prevent school violence.

“If students are not punished for their bad behavior, everything will get out of control. But if you punish students, you will be criticized by parents,” a teacher complained.

Educators and psychologists have urged the creation of a healthy schooling environment following a series of violent incidents involving students.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is tough to believe, and tougher to stomach, but school violence has become an everyday occurrence in our society.

VietNamNet Bridge – School violence has recently increased not only in quantity, but also in severity, said educational experts.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Thua Thien – Hue provincial Education and Training Department has asked the police to conduct an investigation into a video clip ridiculing the national high-school finals on the internet.

VietNamNet Bridge - Articles about school violence and student abuse appear in local newspapers, causing concern among parents.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many sexual assault cases at school were only brought to light many years after they occurred. This is because the majority of the victims did not dare report the crime to the police.

VietNamNet Bridge - Teachers as well as the entire society should take responsibility to stop school violence, educators say.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many teachers complain that the job is especially hard: they are criticized if they punish students when students go wrong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cameras installed in classes are said to help oversee the behavior of students and teachers better and reduce school violence, but the presence of such a "supervisor" is threatens the privacy of those who are supervised.

VietNamNet Bridge - The high expectations of parents for their children is believed to be the major reason behind the high percentage of students who have considered suicide.