VietNamNet Bridge – In Viet Nam, higher education is perhaps the area needing the most urgent fundamental and comprehensive reform, but it is also one of the most complicated, feted mathematician Professor Ngo Bao Chau told a conference

While others are bursting with joy as they have passed the university entrance exams, poor students feel more worried than happy: they now have to think about how to earn money to fund their four-year university study.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Should poor students be encouraged to follow university education? This question has recently become a matter of controversy on education forums.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The biggest blunder Vietnam has made in university education programming is that it tried to produce as many university students as possible. As a result, tens of thousands of graduates have found themselves unemployed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has announced a series of changes in the university entrance mechanism to be applied to the 2014-2015 academic year. However, the ministry’s efforts have not been highly appreciated.

 VietNamNet Bridge – By easing the requirements on the ingoing university students, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) seems to try to popularize higher education in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is so difficult for universities to find the lecturers with higher education that this is compared with the job of “picking up the stars on the sky.”

 VietNamNet Bridge – For 22-year-old university graduate Nguyen Thi Ha, further education is the only choice she has after being knocked back by employer after employer.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Educators believe that the State should pour its money into the pre-school and general school education, while it is necessary to seek other investment sources to develop higher education.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training has pledged to reform higher education management in the lead up to 2015, said a ministry official on Wednesday.

People-founded universities keep complaining that they cannot enroll students. However, more and more universities still have been established, while junior colleges have been insisting on being upgraded into universities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam's education system is grappling with substandard training and dire shortage of teachers, according to a conference held in Ha Noi last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An anti-corruption program will be included in the next school curriculum as per a directive issued by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training on July 26 encouraged universities to try to meet the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) criteria for quality assessment.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has had universities 1.0 and it needs to build universities 2.0 with digitalized systems of documentation, students, teachers and the classrooms becoming cinemas.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two universities that were set up under a plan to build international standardised education institutions still have to temporarily rent infrastructure, an inspection has found.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Disadvantaged children and their demands for education have drawn the attention of many delegates at a recent workshop in Ho Chi Minh City.

Why do the agencies that are not involve in education and training try to keep for themselves a number of colleges and universities? Is the Ministry of Education and Training incompetent in management?

VietNamNet Bridge - About 1,800 state employees will be trained overseas by funding from the state budget in the period of 2013-2020.

Numerous schools have been opened, more and more training courses have been provided, while there has been no reliable forecast about the labor force demand.