High school teachers in non-metropolitan areas are worried their students can’t get into top universities due to different entry requirements from the schools.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has said that students without IELTS tests would not be at a disadvantage when applying for university.

There will be no inequality issues when universities start using international foreign language certificates such as IELTS or TOEFL as criteria for admission.

Parents are willing to spend tens of millions of dong on English lessons that prepare their children for the IELTS test.

As more and more schools require IELTS and other English skill certificates, students are rushing to learn English while paying less attention to other school subjects.

More Vietnamese students are registering for exam preparation classes for international certificates as more universities now require the certificates.

The People’s Court of Hoa Binh province on May 21 sentenced 15 defendants involved in the 2017-2018 national high school exam cheating scandal

In 2006, a national key project hosted by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) was launched and applied on a trial basis at 10 key universities in Vietnam.