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Teachers no longer venerated, their power taken away

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

Students’ morality alarmingly degrading

 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?

Teachers teach students to lie

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese parents, concerned about their children’s character development, have expressed outrage after learning that their children are being taught to lie. The culprit: their teachers.

English teaching: Universities strive for “Vietnamese int'l standards”

 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 pictures: School flooded with mud after historic floods

 VietNamNet Bridge – Floods have passed for several days but thousands of students in the central province of Quang Ngai cannot go to class yet because their schools are still covered with mud.

Teachers will be paid according to their capacity

 VietNamNet Bridge – Education and training always comes high on the list of priority sectors to be developed. However, teachers are among the lowest income earners.

When students give marks to teachers

 VietNamNet Bridge – A high school teacher in Hanoi has conducted a survey on 5,000 students to compile a questionnaire which serves as the collection of comments about teachers.

Teachers deliberately give intricate questions to students?

Parents think that teachers deliberately ask students to solve difficult math questions to force them to go to their private tutoring classes. Meanwhile, teachers believe that it is the parents who, for their appearances, force children to work hard.

Teachers don’t give marks to first graders, parents puzzled

The comment “excellent” made by teachers can be understood by the parents that their children are given 10 marks for their school works. However, in most of the other cases, marks show clearer messages than comments.

The ban on teachers’ wearing of skirts raises controversy

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese now spend a lot of time discussing about what female teachers can wear when going to school.

Teacher knowledge unreliable?

Serious mistakes have been found recently in a lot of reference books for students. How can teachers teach their students if they themselves don’t have good basic knowledge?

Dissatisfied with teachers, students commit suicide

Instead of consulting with friends and relatives on their problems, or thinking of the solutions to overcome difficulties, a lot of students have commit suicide to escape their hitches.

MOET vows to fight against exam cheating, but…

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has released a legal document, stipulating that those, who have evidence about exam cheating must not spread out the evidences under any form.

MOET vows to renovate curricula, but forgets renovating teachers

Experts say they can foresee the failure of the program on renovating textbooks and education curricula, because the program does not tend to renovate the teaching staff.

Schools put on alert as they cannot recruit teachers

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City needs 3,049 teachers in the 2012-2013 academic year, but it only could find 2,000.

Tet bonus: the stories of the teachers in the lowland and highland

The teachers of some schools in HCM City receive VND6-20 million as Tet bonus. Meanwhile, the concept of “Tet bonus” remains unfamiliar to the teachers in the highland.

Schools refuse bad students

The number of students expelled from schools or suspended for one year has been increasing rapidly. This, in the eyes of experts, is an alarming problem.

Non-state owned schools with few students to be forced to get dissolved

Non-state owned schools account for 50 percent of the total high schools in Hanoi, but they receive only 16.4 percent of the total students.

The story about a teacher who says “I have HIV”

A teacher in the mountainous region bluntly stated “I am an HIV positive teacher” after many times of unsuccessfully trying to commit suicide

Number of pedagogical schools on the rise, training quality on the decrease

A lot of schools enroll students for pedagogical training majors, but not all of them can produce qualified teachers.