VietNamNet Bridge – VietNamNet would like to introduce the most impressive education events that happened in 2010.

Ngo Bao Chau won Fields Medal

In 2010 Vietnamese people admired a mathematician more than a showbiz star. Vietnamese Professor Ngo Bao Chau, Chicago University has become the “2010’s icon” in Vietnam, when “Ngo Bao Chau” was the most searched keyword on Yahoo Vietnam.

Very few people in Vietnam, even mathematicians, understand fundamental lemma – the mathematics piece of work that has brought glory to Ngo Bao Chau. However, Vietnamese people still regularly mention the words and the name of the author. Vietnamese people are of Professor Ngo Bao Chau, who, though having spent many years working in foreign countries, is still an authentic Vietnamese person.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau is now the mathematics professor of Chicago University. He has been appointed by the Government of Vietnam as the scientific director of the Vietnam Advanced Mathematics Institute.

Video clip showing teacher insulting student on Internet

A 18-minute video clip showing a teacher insulting a student before the class was posted on Internet. The teacher was an English teacher of Tran Phu School for the Gifted in Hai Phong City. The teacher used t rude words to address to the student and threatened to slap him/her.

The clip, right after it was posted on Internet, has raised people’s anger,

After the event, the Hai Phong Education and Training Department and many schools released the decision to prohibit students from taking pictures or record at schools. Meanwhile, educators are planning to issue a new regulation, prohibiting students to post “sensitive” news on Internet. The decision has raised controversy.

It is clear that both teachers and students now need to reconsider their behaviour.

Nursery teacher maltreated children

Le Quang Vinh, 4, a boy of Hoa Lan private run nursery class in Tan Phu District in HCM City, suffered from severe injuries when his teacher, Tran Thi Xuan Nu put him into the lift. The teacher explained that she put the boy into the lift to force the boy to eat his lunch. She could not imagine that her behaviour would cause such serious physical and mental injuries to the child.

The second story was that another nursery teacher Tran Thi Phung, 52, in Thuan An district in Dong Nai province, snatched a child’s hair and pour water into the face of the child.

The stories have raised a big worry among parents about the education quality of unlicensed household run classes. The problem is that though poor parents are worried after they hear such information, they still have to bring their children to unlicensed classes, because they have no other choice.

A question has been raised for management agencies ofwhy such unlicensed classes are still running?

Female students or gangsters?

If one types in Google “nu sinh danh nhau”, it will provide more than five million results.

In early March 2010, a clip showing a female student of Tran Nhan Tong School in Hanoi fighting another student was posted on Internet. other students witnessed the fight, but no one intended to stop it

A lot of student fights have been reported recently by local newspapers. The noteworthy thing is that not only high school students join the fights, but even younger students from secondary schools also tried to settle their problems using violence.

Teachers seduce students?

The case that has become one of the noteworthy events in 2010 is the one, where former headmaster of Viet Vinh in Ha Giang province seduced a juvenile student. The Ha Giang province’s investigation agency has just wrapped up the investigation which shows that the girls that Xuong targeted were mostly  students at his school.

In the last months of the year, the Ben Tre High School in Vinh Phuc became famous, when a student accused her teacher of seducing her.

Da Nang says “no” to in-service training degree

The local authorities of the central city have released a decision that in-service training graduates will not be employed by the city’s state agencies. The decision has raised controversies about its legitimacy.

However, everyone understands why the city’s authorities released such a decision. For a long time, people have doubted the quality of in-service training.

Tu Uyen