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Foreign schools to be restricted

HA NOI – Foreign-invested schools will be restricted in the number of Vietnamese students they can enrol, under a new law to take effect next month.Detail

Schools milk parents dry by demanding unauthorized fees

Schools in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have charged a clutch of fees, ranging from allowances for hard-working teachers to wages for cleaning workers, since the beginning of this school year even though the law on education stipulates that...Detail

Urban parents seek child prodigies from mental math

Lured by math centers’ sales pitches to turn their children into prodigies, parents in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are scrambling to enroll their kids in mental math courses in the cities.Detail

Parental anxiety helps to fuel excessive school fees

Many parents in Hanoi have complained about excessive school fees, but have failed to petition school leaders as they are worried it would affect their children.Detail

Stricter requirements for nationally-graded schools

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) is seeking opinions from ministries, agencies and the public for stricter standards to recognise secondary and high schools as nationally-graded level.Detail

Big guys nurture the ambition of digitalizing textbooks

Despite the low demand and the low popularity of e-books, and despite the widespread copyright infringement, the big guys in the hi-tech sector such as VTC, FPT and Viettel all are planning to digitalise textbooks.Detail