At noon on December 29, while bathing at the 30/4 beach in Can Gio district, Ho Chi Minh City, seven boys of the Nguyen Binh Khiem secondary school, Binh Duong Street, were swept away.

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The Ministry of Education and Training has turned the green light on, allowing universities to enroll students in their own ways, instead of following the ministry’s plan. However, schools still keep hesitant about this.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has been consistent with its policy on teaching many different languages at general schools. However, it meets a lot of big difficulties that hinder the program implementation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Policy makers needed seven years long to prepare for the establishment of international universities in Vietnam. However, the two operational schools still have been meeting big difficulties.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The state’s funding needs to be addressed properly in order to avoid waste and injustice for students, especially poor students.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The idea of making bricks from the SIT waste by three students in Hanoi has helped rescue the environment in the coal exploitation areas.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly all the universities in Vietnam pledge the international standards TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, B1 for their graduates’ English skills. However, the “international standards” remain doubtful.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five student teams of Vietnam will take part in the contest to manufacture fuel-efficient vehicles in the Philippines in February 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A group of 40 future bachelors of the Hanoi Banking Academy stood in “SEX” shape in front of Thang Long Royal Citadel relic to have pictures taken, which has raised a wave of public protest.

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.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Vietnamese parents’ thoughts, “international schools” means international high education quality. However, the truth is quite otherwise.

 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.

Three students of the HCM City Architecture University Dao Y Kha, Cao Dang Khoa and Ton That Phu Tri have created a “biological wastebasket” for farmers, helping them make the most of the dragon fruit plants waste to protect the environment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A high school teacher in Hanoi has conducted a survey on 5,000 students to compile a questionnaire which serves as the collection of comments about teachers.

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

 VietNamNet Bridge – Students Nguyen Anh Hung and Truong Quoc Vi from the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City know what it's like to be without fresh water in flood ravaged, contaminated areas.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Postgraduates complain that it is getting more and more costly to study for master degrees. It is not because of the high tuitions, but of the under-the-table money they have to pay to lecturers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of regulations in the education and training sector have been found as unfeasible and contradictory. As a result, schools and students can only ignore the regulations and get fined.

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