This is a new point in the ministry’s recently announced draft circular on university enrolment. The move aims to ensure quality of teacher training institutions and relieve public concern, especially after many students with low examination results were recently admitted to teacher training institutions. The change will also mean that more students will have opportunity to attend universities. Universities, especially private ones or less popular ones, should find it easier to enroll enough students. Besides using high school exams for university admission, universities and colleges could organize their own exams to select students suitable to their needs and goals. According to the draft, teacher training institutions can consider university admission to students with good performance in 12th grade. Colleges and vocational schools can consider admission to students with average studying performance. Students from high schools for gifted students can be admitted to teacher training institutions if they earned first, second or thirds prizes in contests at province, national or international levels. In previous years, only students with national or international prizes received the incentive. Another new regulation in this year’s university enrollment is that universities, colleges and vocational schools are not allowed to enroll if they don’t publicize how many of their students get jobs within 12 months of graduating. They also have to publicize information on their facilities including classes, labs, equipment and their staff. In Vietnam, students are classified into three areas to get extra points for their high school graduation and university entrance exams based on… [Read full story]
A signboard at the Arayaprathet border gate between Thailand and Cambodia has been removed following public outcry. PHOTO: V.L.P Thai authorities officially canceled an entry regulation that drew outrage in Vietnam after explaining that the rule was put in place to curb the inflow of illegal laborers. In a letter to the Vietnamese Consular Department, the Thai Embassy in Hanoi said Thailand stopped requiring Vietnamese tourists to submit to photographs with either US$700 or 20,000 Baht before being allowed through the Aranyaprathet Border Gate between Cambodia and Thailand, the Ho Chi Minh City branch of the Tourism Authority of Thailand…... [read more]
Gov't focuses on ministry reforms (29-08-2007) Workers install a pipeline for a water desalination plant that will service the Dung Quat Oil Refinery. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Long HA NOI— Central Government officials discussed a variety of issues during its two-day monthly meeting that ended yesterday, including the 2007-2008 action plan, administrative reform and regulations amendments. The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Officials reviewed a programme to develop the legal system and a draft regulation on atomic energy, but spoke at length on a decree regulating the organisational structure and duties of ministries and ministry-level offices.…... [read more]
Students are expected to learn more about the 1979 border war in new textbooks. — Photo vnexpress.net HA NOI (VNS) — The education and training ministry will consider introducing lessons about border wars and the country's sovereignty over islands in new textbooks, Deputy Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien has said. The ministry is collecting the opinion of the public and experts about this plan. Earlier, many educational experts had said it was necessary to add lessons about the war fought by the Vietnamese people to protect the northern border in 1979 and about Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel)…... [read more]
Students are expected to learn more about the 1979 border war in new textbooks. — Photo vnexpress.net HA NOI (VNS) — The education and training ministry will consider introducing lessons about border wars and the country's sovereignty over islands in new textbooks, Deputy Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien has said. The ministry is collecting the opinion of the public and experts about this plan. Earlier, many educational experts had said it was necessary to add lessons about the war fought by the Vietnamese people to protect the northern border in 1979 and about Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel)…... [read more]
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has, finally, announced Vietnam’s commitments on World Trade Organization (WTO) entry, particularly detailing opening the financial market. According to the MoF, after Vietnam has concluded bilateral talks on opening the domestic market with the whole 26 WTO member countries who require tariff negotiations, synthesized negotiating results for the entire 10,600 import tariff lines, the country pledges to reduce import duties by 22% compared to the current rates. This is scheduled to be carried out mainly within five years from the entry into the WTO. Namely, the average duty rate of agriculture sector in the final…... [read more]
