VietNamNet Bridge – Students’ antipathy towards history has, to some extent, important significance, says well-known historian Phan Huy Le. It should serve as a call for Vietnam to renovate the way it teaches history.

 VietNamNet Bridge – General school teachers say they are tired of their profession because they are under too much pressure.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local education and training departments have all reported significant declines in the numbers of students registering to sit the university entrance exams.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A passion for learning history should be instilled among school students, Prof. Phan Huy Le, chairman of the Viet Nam History Science Association, tells the VietnamPlus online newspaper.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese youth are wasting years of their lives in university lecture halls. In most cases, say experts, university graduates find themselves accepting jobs which do not require such lengthy educations.

On Sunday, seven students in Lai Chau were swept away while crossing the Nam Mu River. Six were rescued and one remains missing. Local authorities claim that the incident was caused by an unscheduled water discharge from a nearby hydropower plant.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On Sunday morning, seven students in the northern province of Lai Chau were swept away while crossing the Nam Mu River on their way to school. Six children were rescued and one went missing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – General school teachers have admitted that literature lessons do not appeal to their students.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The decision by the Ministry of Education and Training on shortening the duration of the philology exam to 120 minutes, and a warning about the new method of raising exam questions, have put high-school students on tenterhooks.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Students insulting teachers, speaking ill of teachers on Facebook, fighting with teachers in the classroom – does this signify the moral decline of the modern Vietnamese student?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Economics remains the “hottest” major and the most popular choice among university students.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Anticipating the gloomy future of vocational schools which cannot enroll students, investors now try to bargain the schools away to quit the unprofitable investment field.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While non-state owned universities feel happy about the new enrolment mechanism set up by the Ministry of Education and Training, intermediate and vocational schools get gloomily sad about it.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Going to a stream to catch fish, a man discovered a human arm on the ground, next to four pairs of sandals. The police then detected the bodies of five students buried under sand.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tens of students in Quang Nam province once harbored the dream of studying and working for money in Japan. Only after arriving in Japan, did they realize that they were swindled.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Students from the University of Architecture in Hanoi on March 9 took the day to sketch the cantilever Long Bien Bridge, which has stood as a prominent feature of Hanoi’s image for over 100 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of new policies have been laid down by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), while the high school finals come in just three months.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam drew 0-0 with a Republic of Korean (RoK) students team in a friendly match on March 2 in Hanoi. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Looking at the record book of Nguyen Bich T, no one can guess that she is a third year student at the English Department of Foreign Languages University.