Education and training

A recent proposal by the Committee on Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children to stop schooling on Saturday received applause from parents and students, but was frowned upon by schools over fears of breaking curriculum guidelines.Keep reading ...

Arguments for and against decentralization have broken out after the recent national high school exam fraud exposed systemic problems. Some have blamed provincial administration of the national exam for the national high school exam fraud where marks were manipulated to give higher scores to students ...

Moves to reform textbooks and the general education curriculum must be undertaken to reduce work overload among students, the Prime Minister said in an instruction.Keep reading ...

All secondary and high schools in the country will offer professional career counselling to students that would match employment demands of local businesses by 2025, according to the Ministry of Education and Training. The schools will also have teachers trained in offering career counselling by ...

One of the goals of the new general education programme issued by the Ministry of Education and Training is to reduce pressure on students and give them more practical experience. But after a month-long pilot programme in six provinces and cities, experts and teachers have ...

Proposals for draft amended Law on Education by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), especially regulations on private nurseries, are raising concerns among the public, including parents and nursery school teachers. According to the proposals, the number of children in a private nursery classroom ...

Rural Vietnamese residents are failing to climb the social ladder because many families stay in the agriculture sector for generations, according to an Oxfam report released last week.Keep reading ...

The East Asia and Pacific region has seven of the top ten performing education systems in the world, with schools in China and Vietnam showing significant progress, according to a new report of the World Bank. Released on March 15, the report “Growing Smarter: Learning ...

This year, the Ministry of Education and Training will decide minimum entrance score for only teacher training institutions while minimum entrance scores for other universities, colleges and vocational schools will be scrapped.Keep reading ...

The government targets to provide vocational training to 2.2 million people in 2018 to meet the increasing demand for human resources, according to the Directorate of Vocational Education under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.Keep reading ...