Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Huu Do said Vietnam may extend the ending time of the 2019-2020 academic year if the epidemic lasts for many days.

Changing the role of teachers in classrooms and upgrading the quality of lessons, AI is expected to change the face of education in the future.

Many education establishments in Vietnam have been utilizing AI in school management and teaching, and have had encouraging initial achievements.

General schools will have to prepare to organize STEM education, including the building of curricula, material facilities and upgrading of teaching staff.

More cases of students committing suicide were reported in 2019, and most students killed themselves because of study pressure.

In Vietnam, the number of adolescents and children with serious mental health problems accounts for 12 percent, or 3 million people who need support and treatment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Surveillance cameras have been installed at schools in Hanoi and HCM City in an effort to prevent school abuse.

School leaders and education experts are promoting open libraries at school, saying that now is the right time to shift from traditional to e-libraries.

While the majority of Vietnamese prohibit their children from having sex at an early age, others are more open and do not consider this to be a moral problem.

General school regulations prohibit students from using mobile phones, but schools admit they cannot control the situation.

The academic year will end in late May, but parents have already begun looking for summer classes for their children.

VietNamNet Bridge - Huynh Thanh Hoa, a media executive at an ad firm in Hanoi, has not worked extra hours recently, even though her firm is preparing for a big event to take place in two weeks.

VietNamNet Bridge - Schools have repeatedly complained to the Ministry of Education and Training about the lack of teachers, but the Ministry does not have the right to recruit teachers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many depressed children are judged to be shy and lazy, while parents think they are stubborn and disobedient. 

Warning about the high proportion of Vietnamese children having mental health problems, experts have urged new consultancy activities at school and better care of children at home.

VietNamNet Bridge - The majority of Vietnamese students say they are not enthusiastic about the physical education lessons at school because of poor facilities and boring practice.

Psychologists believe that school violence continues because society doesn’t condemn the behavior. If adults remain silent after seeing students fight, children won’t rise up against violence, they say. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The general education program has created problems for students because of poor teaching methods, not an excessive workload.

Educators believe that STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education will be effective even at schools with poor facilities, if the schools attach importance to science subjects.