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Students’ morality alarmingly degrading

 VietNamNet Bridge – Students insulting teachers, speaking ill of teachers on Facebook, fighting with teachers in the classroom – does this signify the moral decline of the modern Vietnamese student?

Laptops will replace books at school?

 VietNamNet Bridge – While technology experts believe that computers will replace students’ books at school, educators keep doubtful about the prediction.

Parents feel sad about children’s bad marks, unhappy about high marks

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first semester of the 2013-2014 academic year has finished. Vietnamese parents now, once again, feel worried about the education their children are enjoying.

HCM City schools struggle to employ foreign teachers

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many schools in HCM City are facing difficulties in employing foreign English teachers due to the obstacles of high payment, and a lack of teachers and textbooks.

Why local schools choose a Chinese education software?

Why has a Chinese software product, not a Vietnamese or foreign one, been advised to be used at secondary schools? The answer is that there is no Vietnamese suitable product, while foreign ones are too expensive.

Software with nine-dotted line used at secondary schools in HCMC

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some secondary schools in HCM City have been found as using the software with the image of nine dotted line sourced from China. No agency has taken responsibility for this.

Learning model for Vietnam - new but unsuitable

The international model of learning, which is believed to modernize Vietnam’s problematic education system and better prepare children for the global integration, known as VNEN, has turned out to be unsuitable to the country.

Schools combat cough medicine craze

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bui Thi Thuoc in HCM City is worried that her eighth-grade daughter will become a drug addict.

In pictures: School flooded with mud after historic floods

 VietNamNet Bridge – Floods have passed for several days but thousands of students in the central province of Quang Ngai cannot go to class yet because their schools are still covered with mud.

Parents, students over head and ears in superfast math

 VietNamNet Bridge – Urban parents rush to bring their children to the extra classes in which the children learn superfast math question solving methods.

Schools get embarrassed with education renovation

 VietNamNet Bridge – The new enrolment regulations applied to the 2013-2014 academic year have embarrassed schools.

Textbooks turn out to have too many mistakes

 VietNamNet Bridge – Textbooks used in teaching and learning at general schools are believed to provide standard knowledge. However, educators have found a lot of mistakes in the books.

Teachers don’t give marks to first graders, parents puzzled

The comment “excellent” made by teachers can be understood by the parents that their children are given 10 marks for their school works. However, in most of the other cases, marks show clearer messages than comments.

HCM City needs more teachers

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Education and Training Department has recruited 1,900 teachers for the city’s general schools. However, it still needs 1,200 more.

Schools asked to enhance traffic safety awareness

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training has asked its departments; universities and colleges to step up on campaigns to raise awareness of traffic safety at the very beginning of the next academic year.

Hanoi: Five school headmasters resign

 VietNamNet Bridge – The news that five school headmasters in Ha Dong district decided to resign from their posts for the acknowledged shortcomings in the management capability has stirred up the public.

HCM City's schools turning into retail premises

 VietNamNet Bridge – In HCM City, an inch of soil is an inch of gold. Therefore, pavements, street corners, lake sides and school campuses all have been used as retail premises.

Pegtop trousers violently shaking education forums

 VietNamNet Bridge – No one could imagine before that tapering trousers would become the main topic in the arguments among Vietnamese educators.

Ban on the running of summer classes embarrass parents

 VietNamNet Bridge – The new regulation set up by the city’s education department--that schools must not organize summer classes, has made parents wait around.

Schools lack resources to teach water survival

 VietNamNet Bridge – The recent news of children drowning in several provinces in the Central Highland has highlighted the seriousness of the problem.