Worries of being weeded out from gifted school, no time for meals or relaxation, truncating time for sleep, rushing to extra classes -- all these are the main characteristics of Vietnamese gifted school students...

An student known only as TTQ from Vinh Long province sent a letter describing his experience to Saigon’s Tiep Thi newspaper.

In it he described the pressures he is under at a “gifted school” outlining the advantages and disadvantages and the elements that education experts say lead to students with qualifications but no living skills...

The U.S.-Vietnam Education Task Force was organized on the U.S. side by the Department of State and on the Vietnamese side by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). On 30 September 2009 the Task Force released their Final Report. Its recommendations are based on the reports of six "advisory groups", which comprise the second half of the 55-page Final Report...

Students have many reasons to take part time jobs. Some want to earn money to cover study expenses, or help parents out - while others want to work just because they want to gain experience for future jobs...

As per the request by the Ministry of Education and Training, universities now have to make public graduation standards, including those on foreign language skills...

The survey on social welfare for the sake of social progress and justice headed by Dr Tran Huu Quang demonstrated a lot of difficulties that general school teachers are facing...

Appropriate policies are needed to create effective laws on higher education, said Professor Pham Phu at a seminar on December 22 attended by education management authorities, experts, scholars and representatives of the National Assembly Office...