• Local teachers of English not up to standard
    HA NOI — Vu Minh Quang, father of a seventh grader at Trung Nhi Junior Secondary School, noticed a contradiction in his son's English. "He has always got best marks at English grammar, but when I take him out to meet my foreign partners, he finds it hard to speak proficiently," Quang said. As Quang's doubts about the quality of English teaching at his son's school...
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  • Distance education remains ineffective due to school material shortage
    VietNamNet Bridge – In Vietnam, the students, who follow distance learning courses, still have to come to classes. It is because of the lack of school materials.
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  • Educators call on to remove national high school final exam
    VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of educators and analysts have called on the Ministry of Education and Training to remove the national high school final exam, which they believe is unnecessary and too costly.
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  • English teaching program shaky because of teacher shortage
    VietNamNet Bridge – The lack of foreign language teachers has been pointed out as the main factor that threatens the success of foreign language teaching programs. 2011 is the first year in the 2011-2015 period, when Vietnam carries out the 10-year foreign language teaching program to general school students on a large scale, and the program on providing intensive foreign language courses...
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  • Experts look at ways to boost higher education
    VietNamNet Bridge – More than 160 domestic and foreign leaders, managers, lecturers and postgraduates at a conference yesterday, July 14, discussed ways to improve the quality of training, research and management in universities and colleges. Dr Nguyen Thi Le Huong, deputy head of Ministry of Education and Training's tertiary education department, said the system should develop...
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  • New Standards for Professional Learning
    By Learning Forward Yesterday I had the pleasure of releasing the newly revised Standards for Professional Learning. It was a thrill to share the document in person with more than 1,000 educators attending our 2011 Summer Conference. Due to the generous support of MetLife Foundation, each person in attendance was handed a complimentary copy of the standards. This is the third iteration of...
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  • Classroom Management First, Technology Second
    By David Ginsburg Graduates of University of Virgina's math teacher education program have had more success teaching with technology after a couple of years on their own than they had when UVa staff was helping them with it. This according to Joe Garofalo, Co-Director of the University of Virginia Center for Technology and Teacher Education, during a session he co-facilitated at the recent...
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