VietNamNet Bridge – In principle, all Vietnamese students are equal in enjoying the state’s education investment policies. However, in fact, private school students have to pay very high tuitions and school fees.

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?

The People’s Court of the southwestern province of Tay Ninh on December 4 sentenced a Cambodian national to 13 years in jail for drug trafficking and robbery.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training on December 4 announced that Vietnamese students were among the group of top-performing countries according to the latest PISA survey.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of Vietnamese students in the US in the 2012-2013 academic year increased by 3.4 percent year-on-year, to 16,098,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Six Vietnamese students won three gold and three silver medals at the 54th International Mathematical Olympiad held in Santa Marta City in Colombia from July 18-28.

 Four Vietnamese students won two silver and two bronze medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2013 which has been held in Australia from July 4-14, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese students won more 11 gold medals on the third day of the fifth ASEAN School Games (AGS) on June 26.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The US-funded Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) has brought 467 Vietnamese postgraduates to study in the United States under its scholarship programme over the last ten years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese students have been listed among the Asia Pacific Mathematics Olympiad for Primary Schools’ (APMOPS) top ten, held recently in Singapore.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two groups of Vietnamese students from the Ha Noi-Amsterdam and Le Hong Phong high schools have been awarded fourth-place prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese students who studied abroad are also finding it difficult to find suitable jobs on their return to Vietnam.