The newly appointed Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha and well-known experts met at an online roundtable at VietNamNet last week to discuss the thorny issue of attracting Vietnamese overseas talent.

VietNamNet Bridge - Should students be prevented from proving their ability at school if their parents committed crimes in the past?

VietNamNet Bridge - Many universities and junior colleges received a large number of applications after one week of enrollment, but they are still not sure if they can find enough students. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The latest ranking announced by Webometrics shows that many Vietnamese universities have fallen from their previous positions.

VietNamNet Bridge - Junior colleges fear they may not find enough students this year, even though the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has allowed them to enroll students based on high-school marks.

VietNamNet Bridge - Educators disagree on whether national high-school finals should be abolished. The exam cost a great deal of money and is seen as insignificant because more than 90 percent of students pass.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has increased the number of new preschools built in recent years but parents still can’t find enough state-owned preschools.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though many provinces and cities have decided to stop VNEN (the Vietnam Escuela Nueva) methodology, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) said VNEN will still be applied in Vietnam.

The quality of English teaching and learning at general schools has once again become a hot topic of discussion after MOET announced that students got an average of 3.3 marks out of 10 at the national high-school finals. 

More and more errors have been found in newly published dictionaries. Local newspapers said that the market is flooded with ‘rubbish dictionaries’, and analysts have warned that these dictionaries will spoil the Vietnamese language.

VietNamNet Bridge - The fact that an examinee got a score of 10 on a physics test and zero for math in the 2016 high school final exam has raised questions about the reliability of multiple-choice questions.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Escuela Nueva (VNEN) is considered an innovative teaching method, but many parents  have opposed its use.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many students are surprised about rising tuition at universities. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Teachers have suggested removing the essays on English tests for the high-school final exam.

VietNamNet Bridge - As the number of students applying for universities this year is expected to be lower than in previous years, universities are scrambling for students.

VietNamNet Bridge - The world’s leading universities will include talented Vietnamese who will enroll this year. 

In 2015, the average mark students received on high-school finals was ‘abnormally low’. The same phenomenon is happening this year. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Thanh Hai, Chair of the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, the Youth and Children, has asked the government to reconsider the human resources development plan for the 2011-2020 period.

VietNamNet Bridge - State-owned preschools in Hanoi and HCMC are expected to be overloaded this year because of the high number of children born in 2012, the year of the ‘golden dragon’ and 2013, the year of the ‘diamond snake’.

Many schools have ignored the Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) instruction that the 2016-2017 academic year starts no sooner than August 1 and no later than August 25, and have asked students to return to school in July.