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Tweet Vietnam: Learning English has become a norm in Vietnam. Everyone thinks that they must speak fluent English in order to get good jobs in this period of globalization. English language centres have been mushrooming in the past few years to satisfy the increasingly high demand. The centres prove to be the most suitable [...] Tweet Hanoi, Vietnam: Youngsters in Ha Noi have rushed to take part in English classes at centres throughout the capital in an effort to learn and improve their English but unfortunately, finding a quality course with affordable fee is not easy, said Hanoian Bui Thi Uyen. Uyen said she has moved her children from one [...] Tweet Vietnam: According to VietnamNews, a school offering instruction in both Vietnamese and English will open next September in An Giang Province. The Provincial People’s Committee and Department of Education and Training have spent more VND4 billion (US$226,000) to build the first bilingual school in Long Xuyen City’s My Hoa District. Construction has begun on [...] Tweet Vietnam: Low efficiency in teaching English at universities is a thorny issue (nothing to do with the students, obviously), especially since the State has invested money and resources in improving courses. A first-year student at the Ha Noi National University summarised his English learning process from the sixth grade to university as a stretch [...] Tweet Vietnam: Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education and Training Banh Tien Long has asked universities to help students improve their English so that they can use it confidently and competently by 2015. Mr Long said that to improve the quality of teaching and English language skills, universities should attach more importance to upgrading [...] Tweet With English language centres seemingly on every street in HCM City, local educators and officials question the quality of instruction available at many of these schools. According to Nguyen Van Cuong, an official with the city’s Education and Training Department, many of these centres exist not to meet pedagogical requirements but to make big [...] Tweet In 1996, The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) kicked off the trial programme on teaching English as an optional subject to primary school students, reports Vietnamnet. 12 years later, the ministry plans to teach English as a compulsory subject to primary school students throughout the country, though there still exist a lot of [...] Tweet English will be taught from the primary school onwards under a program that the Prime Minister has just approved, an official of the Ministry of Education and Training said Thursday. Read the full story… Sphere: Related Content Tweet Thousands of youth volunteers have been doing social work for the last three weeks under Ho Chi Minh City’s Green Summer campaign, with nearly 200 students teaching children and workers English and other languages in the city. Read the full story… Sphere: Related Content Tweet Nguyen Ky Nam, PhD, of Australian nationality, has noted that when he returned to Vietnam in 2006, he spent a lot of time choosing a school for his son, Ky Anh, who had finished the first class in Australia. Nam wanted his son not only to speak English fluently and understand foreign cultures, but [...]  |
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