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VN claims junior division at international robotics contest
VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City's Nguyen Binh Khiem Primary School has won the junior division at the International Robotics Competition in the Philippines.
First graders also run a race for high posts
VietNamNet Bridge – The parents who have children going to primary schools in HCM City have been trying to “go through back doors” angle for high positions in the classes for their children.
Schools made excessively large to receive “golden pigs”
VietNamNet Bridge – The educators in Hanoi have been trying every possible means to enlarge their schools to pack in more students. The number of first graders increases sharply this year.
Teachers to give comments, not marks, to first graders
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has allowed primary schools not to give marks to students for their school works. The teachers would only make comments and give advice to help students improve their study capability.
The urban children “caged” in “glass houses”
Instead of relaxing and playing to enjoy the summer holiday, the children in urban areas have to stay indoors all day, go together with the parents to the office or go to the countryside to stay with grandparents.
How much “golden pigs” have to pay for a seat at star school?
The primary schools in Hanoi will only start receiving study applications in July. However, sources said the list of first graders for the 2013-2014 academic year has been fixed already.
Lacking money, teachers, English program goes at snail’s pace
In the 2012-2013 academic year, only 20 percent of first graders in HCM City could learn English in accordance with the 2020 national foreign language teaching program.
Vietnam wins prizes at Malaysia Inventors contest
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam bagged 7 golds and two silvers at the International Exhibition for Young Inventors (IEYI) contest held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from May 9-11.
Children gear up to prepare for primary school entrance exams
Hanoi’s parents have been intensively preparing their children for the entrance exams to “star” primary schools.
Morality lessons too academic for students
Ethical lessons taught at general schools don’t help students much in their lives.
Teachers, students struggle to “swallow” heavy curriculums
Teachers and students go to school everyday just to struggle with the difficult math questions or complicated literature issues. Meanwhile, the knowledge is useless for them and unrealistic.
Primary schools get overloaded because of “golden pigs”
Parents have been warned that it would be very difficult to enroll in primary schools this year because of the sharp increase in the number of students to begin going to school.
Vietnamese students surprise Google’s engineer
Neil Fraser, a Google software engineer, said Vietnamese high school students have the informatics knowledge good enough to go through the interview round at Google.
Primary school students introduced to traditional musical instruments
VietNamNet Bridge – Singers from the Que Huong Club at the Labor Cultural House in District 1 in HCM City held a performance to introduce traditional musical instruments to young students of Minh Dao Primary School
Only a few of general schools in Vietnam can meet standards
The new standards for general education accreditation applied as of January 2013 have made schools puzzled, because they don’t know what they have to do to be recognized as the national standard schools.
Vietnamese students afraid of physical exercise lessons
The goal of physical education at general schools is to help students improve their health. However, this remains unattainable. The majority of Vietnamese students dislike the learning subject.
