The Education System in Vietnam
Education and the system of higher learning and technical schools is very important to business as it provides the trained workers and also a system to transfer skills and train new employees needed in a modern business society...
Vietnamese teens' thirst for college outpaces country's educational system
To take the most important test of her life, Le Thi Hoai Thuong, 18, traveled 38 hours by bus with her father, a rice and corn farmer who doesn't want his daughter to become a rice and corn farmer...
Schools with not enough students
While many “star” schools complain that they have been overloaded with too many students, other smaller and less prestigious schools complain that they cannot enroll enough students....
Poor rural children blaze education trail
University entrance exams can be intimidating to many high school students, whose futures greatly rely on the exam results. Many students carry different dreams that help to shape their future..
Overcoming the odds, poor boys triumph in university exams
They come from poor families in farming villages, but they have a common characteristic – not much in their wallets, but a passion for learning.
“Sometimes Bien told me ‘we are still poor, and to escape from poverty, I have no choice but to learn well,’” said Bien’s father. He added that Bien always dreams of becoming a doctor who could cure poor people...
In Vietnam today, the foreign scholarship chase begins early
What’s the best way to ensure that your brilliant child can win a scholarship to study at a foreign university? These days, reports Saigon Tiep Thi, many Vietnamese parents start to prepare their sons and daughters for study abroad while they are still small...
