The “drop-out” season has begun in many areas. Students don’t return to school after Tet, while teachers spend time walking long distances to meet students to persuade them to go back to school...

Pre-schools in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are in serious need of major investments to improve their poor facilities and deal with a severe teacher shortage.

According to the latest figures for the region's education sector, more than 4,000 classrooms are temporary or have been donated by local residents, accounting for more than 27 per cent of the total number. The national average for these kinds of classrooms is nearly 20 per cent.

The draft regulation by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) says that teachers have to pay tax for private tutoring. Experts, though believing that private tutors are high income earners who should be taxed, still have doubts about the feasibility of the attempted regulation...

More and more graduates who have finished their studies in other countries are choosing to return to Viet Nam and work as they see a huge opportunity to promote themselves in their homeland...

Providing training services to orders is defined as the training in accordance with the agreements inked between universities and employers. The students who finish the training courses will get bachelor degrees, to be granted by the universities and work for the companies which sent students to the training courses...

Minister of Education and Training, Nguyen Vinh Hien, has affirmed that the most important task of the 2011-2012 academic year, is to renovate the curricula. Parents have been complaining that their children have to deal with a huge volume of knowledge...

Universities and colleges of pedagogy nationwide are expected to use the plan to develop their training targets for teachers and educational officials, Nhan told an online conference last Saturday...