VietNamNet Bridge – The national foreign language teaching program will not succeed unless the targets and implementation are changed, the component projects are redrawn.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Education and Training Department has announced its decision to institute a new integrated English teaching curriculum for general school students.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Education and Training Department has unexpectedly decided to discontinue its use of Cambridge University’s English teaching curriculums, after four years of its application at 20 primary schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) believes that now is the right time to kick off its plan on teaching science subjects in English at general schools, despite a series of hurdles.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has revised its decision on prohibiting preschools to organize foreign language classes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training has released a document stipulating that pre-school education establishments are not allowed to teach foreign languages to the children. This has raised controversy.

 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.

In the 2012-2013 academic year, only 20 percent of first graders in HCM City could learn English in accordance with the 2020 national foreign language teaching program.