VietNamNet Bridge – The decision by the Ministry of Education and Training on shortening the duration of the philology exam to 120 minutes, and a warning about the new method of raising exam questions, have put high-school students on tenterhooks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – By easing the requirements on the ingoing university students, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) seems to try to popularize higher education in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While non-state owned universities feel happy about the new enrolment mechanism set up by the Ministry of Education and Training, intermediate and vocational schools get gloomily sad about it.

VietNamNet Bridge – University entrance examinations should switch from testing knowledge to assessing capacity, Nguyen Kim Son, Professor and Vice Rector of the Ha Noi National University, spoke to the Vietnam News Agency.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of new policies have been laid down by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), while the high school finals come in just three months.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training has determined a new examination mechanism, under which, 99.9 percent of high school students can pass the final exams.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese high school students will have to take four subjects in order to graduate, a decision which some say will strike a death blow to the subject of history.   

VietNamNet Bridge – An international study created by the Conference of Education Ministers of French-Speaking Countries reveals that Vietnamese primary education is good as students are equipped with basic skills and knowledge.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of education experts have suggested removing the “floor mark mechanism” from the 2014 exam season because it is “unreasonable” and “unscientific.”

 VietNamNet Bridge – Only 31 out of over 400 universities and colleges across Vietnam have sent plans to organise independent entrance exams.  

The Ministry of Education and Training has announced that universities have to stop enrolling students for the 207 training majors from the 2014 academic year, if they cannot satisfy the criteria in the teaching staff.

VietNamNet Bridge – One hundred percent of Vietnamese teachers wants to utilize information technology (IT) in their teaching at school. However, they cannot do this with failed computers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government will tighten the management of universities this year following a recent decision by the Prime Minister.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty percent of the most excellent students would automatically finish high school without having to attend finals under a Ministry of Education and Training’s plan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga has assured students that there will not be major changes in the university enrollment procedures for next year.

The high results that the Vietnamese 15-year old students gained from the PISA tests is the Vietnamese pride and joy. However, this has also made Vietnamese embarrassed: why is Vietnam still poor, though its people are very intelligent?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Xuan Que, the economics PhD of the Hanoi Economics University, has taken legal proceedings against the Ministry of Education and Training’s Minister Pham Vu Luan for the ministry’s decision on revoking his doctorate.

Many people have been tricked out of money in a rush to buy low-cost plane tickets as the busy year-end season approaches.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of regulations in the education and training sector have been found as unfeasible and contradictory. As a result, schools and students can only ignore the regulations and get fined.

On September 19, the ASEAN college released a notice on resuming the enrolment for the new academic year. This means that the conflict between the Ministry of Education and Training and the junior college has stopped through conciliation?