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The HCM City administration yesterday reviewed the progress made in the five years since implementation of the Government's New Rural Area Programme began.
Key economic regions suffer from industrial solid waste
VietNamNet Bridge - Industrial solid waste has been threatening the living environment in key industrial production regions of the north and south.
Teacher’s slap raises controversy among modern Vietnamese parents
“I raised my hand towards my student and gave him a slap as he irritated me by answering me back,” is a sentence written by a teacher found in an “advice column” of a local newspaper.
Teachers, students begin marathon preparation for 2-in-1 exam
VietNamNet Bridge – High school finals will take place in July, but
teachers and students are already struggling to prepare for the exam.
Education-universalization law prevents teachers from doing their job
VietNamNet Bridge – Teachers are not forcing failing students to
repeat classes, because if they do, they will not fulfill the tasks of
the education-universalization program.
Miss Vietnam's poor French fluency rauses questions about teaching methodologies
Miss Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen cannot speak
French well even though she has studied the language for seven years
shows that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has serioua weaknesses,
according to analysts.
MOET struggles for the right to compile textbooks
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)
said it must be involved in compiling a set of textbooks for every
grade, but the public does not support the idea.
Vietnam considers using CEFR-V standard for English teaching
Linguists and educators believe that it is
necessary to create a local CEFR-V, that is, a Vietnamese version of the
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, a set of
standards used in teaching of English in Vietnam.
MOET wants to compile revised textbooks in new VND800 billion program
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is
seeking the National Assembly’s approval to revise school textbooks,
estimated to cost VND800 billion.
HCM City lacks teachers of English for primary schools
VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s primary schools, which include three
English teaching programs, are facing a shortage of teachers of English.
Open source software ignored by state agencies
Closed-source software products, mostly
Microsoft’s, have been dominating Vietnam’s software market, despite the
government’s encouragement to develop and use open-source software.
English teachers should not be blamed for their substandard skills
Educators believe that the best solution to help improve the
qualifications of English teachers is to renovate the way English is
taught and learned at schools.
Household appliance refused rate rising, e-waste question remains unsolved
Treating e-waste remains a difficult question to
solve for environmental scientists. The volume of e-waste has been
increasing year after year, while the treatment solutions still cannot
bring good effects.
The ESOP rush
Big enterprises have been following in each
others’ footsteps in launching ESOP – employee stock ownership plans –
to increase their capital, bring more benefits to shareholders and
retain workers.
Families, society have to spend too much money on students’ exams
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has to spend hundreds of billions of dong
to organize high school finals every year. The same sum of money is
spent on the university entrance exams.
Vietnam succeeds in rescuing precious pine trees
The program on researching the biological
characteristics of a pine variety - Ducampopinus kremfii – has shown
initial results.
Lacking swimming ponds, students learn to swim on paper
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has requested all the
schools throughout the country to strengthen the teaching of swimming to
their students.
Vietnam fears for lacking STB to implement digital terrestrial TV program
The Ministry of Information and Communication is
discussing the way of propping up set top boxes (STB) to people in the
implementation of the national program on TV digitalization. Meanwhile,
VTC has delayed its STB production project.
State agencies to be inspected and ranked for e-documents exchange
Minister of Information and Communication --
Nguyen Bac Son, has stated that the ministry would take actions to boost
the exchange of e-documents among state agencies.
Lacking money, teachers, English program goes at snail’s pace
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.
