Employers have reasons to set limitations in recruitment

While a lot of educators have voiced their dissatisfaction about the Nam Dinh provincial authorities not to employ the graduates of non-state owned schools, others believe that this is a reasonable decision, because the schools can partially say about the qualifications of candidates. In fact,....

MOET admits it’s difficult to find English teachers for pilot training program

The shortage of English teachers for the program on teaching English to primary school students, which was warned before when the program was launched, has become more serious. According to the Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien, the recent examination over primary school English teachers’ capability has found that...

Improper management mechanism keeps teachers away from nursery schools

LookAtVietnam - Nursery schools complain that the low wages and allowances make them unable to recruit teachers. Tran Thi Kim Thanh, Deputy Director of the HCM City Education and Training Department said that there are more than 293,000 children at pre-school age and 759 nursery schools in the city, while there...

Ministry holds online meeting on foreign language training

The Ministry of Education and Training organized an online meeting to discuss implementation of a project for foreign language training for the period 2008-2020. The online meeting was presided over by Deputy Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien, and was conducted in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, the central city of Da Nang, the Southern city of Can Tho, and Thai Nguyen in the...

Nam Dinh decision to refuse private school bachelors raises wave of anger

The information that Nam Dinh provincial authorities do not employ private school bachelors for their agencies has been facing the strong opposition from the public, especially from private schools’ lecturers and students. Tran Tat Tiep, Director of the Interior Affairs Department of Nam...

All graduates to be bilingual

Within nine years, most graduates from Viet Nam’s colleges and universities will be expected to speak English or another foreign language. This is part of a master plan on language teaching up until 2020. Photo: Internet Under the plan, approved by the Prime Minister in 2008, foreign languages...

Vocational schools face declining enrolments

Two and three-year vocational training programmes are faced with declining enrolment as more universities have opened schools in recent years. Leaders of vocational colleges and intermediate vocational schools are concerned that universities have an unfair competitive advantage by opening...

Vietnamese parents trying to produce child prodigies

Vietnamese parents nowadays all want their children to become geniuses. Therefore, they force the children to practice reading, writing and doing arithmetic soon. Many of the children, who learn to become geniuses, have mental problems because they have to learn too hard. Writing, handling figures at the age of three One year ago, Nguyen Thi...

SEA officials discuss integrated education in Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – The second Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) conference on basic education opened in Da Nang city on October 18. The event attracted 100 delegates including senior officials from SEAMEO member countries, affiliated members, international organizations and...

State agencies refuse bachelors of private schools

Nam Dinh provincial authorities have released a shocking decision that they will not accept the bachelors who graduate from non-state schools as the officers in state agencies. At the latest civil servant recruitment exams held on October 16, Nguyen Van Tuan, Chair of the Nam Dinh provincial People’s...