The first course of the new school year which started two weeks ago brought eagernees and happiness for every students . After finishing the first year , we have grown up in both life and study . English exercises helped us to raise English skills. So we got good result in last course.
INTRODUCTORY The first course of the new school year which started two weeks ago brought eagernees and happiness for every students . After finishing the first year , we have grown up in both life and study . English exercises helped us to raise English skills. So we got good result in last course. In this course , we were charged an interesting exercise about social and economic problem . These are practical problems which needs concernedness of every one in social .On the occasion of new school year , we want to dicuss about education subject ,one of the most realistic problems in social . Though in the past few year the education sector has gianed some initial successes in raising the quality of teaching and learning standars , we stiil see qite a lot of problems across the sector.So,we searched and gathered much informations about education problem. We worked in group of four member .Each person searched her own subject and wrote her own summary about that subject.After that , we worked togerther to dicuss about the realistic problem .It was a really interesting exercise. Our group include four girl members . We hope that our assignment wiilbe got good participation.We are: Pham Thanh Huong Pham Thi Thu Huong Pham Thi Thu Hoa Tran Thi Thu Hien 1 SUMMARIES 1.The Ministry of Education and Training and the Vietnam Education builed the campaign to help pupils in disadvantaged areas. The campaign attracted teacher and students’ participation by collecting in dispensable things for study .It will last till Octorber, 2008. 2.At ethnic minorities ,writing and speaking Vietnamese are too difficult for ethnic children to learn .The Ministry of Education and Training encouraged one method that teachs Vietnamese to ethnic children at kindergarten school. Childern can understand Vietnamese better after training course. 3.A new campaign which called “Friendly school , active students” was built to reduce to the smallest possible number of drop-outs. Besides, to concern oneself with the student’s living condition will help them to have chance of studying. 4.Can newly-graduating engineers work as experience staffs? While business complain that graduates are only good in theory , universities against that business don’t welcome students to assigned them practical work . However , one realistic sollution isn’t found by both business and universities. 5.At “The School Year of Information and Technology Application”, delegates include experts , educators and officials dicussed about using ICT in education . The number of internet users have increased in few near years. Applying ICT in education will bring better educational environment for students around the country 2 6.More and more universities are founded and many problems are appearing.Universities lacks of good lucturers and facilities .Deputy of Ministy MOET said that qualification of lecturers must be up graded Besides increasing the number of universities,rasing the education quality is also urgent problem. 7.Doctor Pham Thi Kim Anh , from Hanoi University recounted the bad attitude of students which is from poor education and upbringing.She gave the solution that needs co- ordination of teachers and parents in teaching life skills and fostering personalities.However,to improve the quality of teachers is also one more important problem . 8.Books are so necessary for teachers and students. But now teachers and students use Internet to search information and time .Because school library is not enough to server people about quality, quantity and disversity , government should invest both books and skills of librarian.One more thing is that infrastructure in library need to modernise. 9.High tuition fee is a big problem with majority of students .However , to increase tuition fee is unavoidable .Opinions of some students showed that they can’t effort to pay such as high tuition fee. .So, the government should have solutions to control this staus .Universities also should find other financial sources to reduce the fee. 10.In this new school year , the Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan introduced four new projects : kindergaten , system school , teacher’s quality and new structure.he also hoped that the number of student drop-outs will minimising.Besides, the ministry also encouraged teacher to change the method of teaching . 3 1 - SUPPORTING STUDENTS IN DISADVANTAGED AREAS The Ministry of Education an Training and the Vietnam Education Trade Union have called for support from the whole education sector to help pupils in mountainous , remote and poor areas, especially those in provinces hit by the recent floods. The campaign aims at to collect clothes , books , textbooks , learning tools and raise money to help the students in those areas. Currently, students in muontainous , remote and undeveloped areas , face many difficuties . Some students in those regions lack warm clothes , books, textbooks and necessary learning tools . In particular, the floods at the beginning of August caused great human suffering and property damage in several Northern Mountainous Provinces . According to a report by Education Trade Union in Lao Cai , Yen Bai , Ha Giang , Phu Tho and Quang Ninh provinces , one teacher and 19 pupils dided or went missing in the flood , several houses belonging to teachers were destroyed , 89 teacher’s houses were heavily damaged , many classrooms were destroyed , hundreds of pupils lost clothes , books , textbooks and learning tools.All right before the new school year. To help pupils in disavantaged regions , especially in flood-hit areas, the Ministry of Education and Training and the Vietnam Education Trade Union have called for all teacher s , educational workers , student in economically advantaged areas , organizations , businesses and individuals to respone the campaign. The campaign will create better conditions for students in these regions in their material and spiritual lives and help them in their studies , said Nguyen Thien Nhan , Deputy Mininster and Minister of Education and Training.The campaign will be carried out from the beginning of this new school year till Octorber , 2008. 4 2- BID TO BOOST ETHNIC PUPILS ‘ LITERACY The move is expected to facilitate ethnic minority children’s learning as many of them still cannot read and write Vietnamese fluently after completing the first grade, despite the Ministry of Education and Training’s efforts at improving education in rural areas. For the school year 2007-08, 40 rural provinces recorded low rates of learning the Vietnamese language after the first grade, according to a report released at a recent conference held by the ministry. Nearly 22 per cent of students who had completed the first grade in northern Ha Giang Province could not read or write Vietnamese, with 17 per cent in Dac Nong Province, 16.8 per cent in Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands and 15.3 per cent in central Ninh Thuan.Nguyen Vinh Hien, deputy education minister, said textbooks, which are all in Vietnamese, and teaching methods were unsuited to ethnic minority students.Some academic content of the textbooks are too difficult, he said.Vietnam has 53 ethnic minorities with a population of 11 million. About 70 per cent of ethnic children cannot understand and speak Vietnamese before they attend primary school. The Ministry of Education and Training has told provinces and cities to use ethnic languages to teach Vietnamese to five-year old ethnic children at kindergarten schools or offer a two – to three-month Vietnamese training course for ethnic children before they enter the first grade.Using students’ ethnic languages to teach them in the first grade and both languages at primary school is one method encouraged by the ministry. Hoang Thu Huong, an official from the ministry’s pre-school education department, said the method of teaching Vietnamese to ethnic children in kindergarten had been Ethnic children at a primary school in A Pu Sung Commune, Bat Xat District, in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, learn Vietnamese. 5 successful in Gia Lai Province."Ethnic children who learn Vietnamese in kindergarten can follow the teaching curriculum of the first grade," Huong said.But many of the children did not attend school, she said. Mong Ky Slay, head of the ministry’s ethnic minority education department, said there was a shortage of teachers who can master their students’ ethnic languages. Using both languages had not been successful in general because classes can contain children from three to five ethnic minorities.The ministry would decide on one approach after surveying results in various provinces. Nguyen Van Dong, head of the Gia Lai Province’s primary education, said provincial teacher training colleges should offer ethnic minority languages to teachers. Only five per cent of primary teachers nationwide are ethnic minorities. Tran Thi Tham, deputy director of the Lao Cai Province’s department of education and training, said teachers needed to learn the ethnic languages of their students.Lao Cai Province had also sent its teachers to Tay Bac University to learn the H’mong language, she said.Vietnam has only four universities – Tay Bac, Tay Nguyen, Quy Nhon and Can Tho – that teach ethnic minority languages (Source: Viet Nam News) 6 3- SCHOOLS BRACE FOR AN EARLY START While students nationwide are waiting for the first drum beat that officially starts the new school year, the education and training sector has set out new targets to improve schooling. Students and their parents look for necessary textbooks and stationaries for the new coming school year. 7 The new targets aim to eliminate manipulation of exam results, and to keep students in school, reducing the number of drop-outs. Minister of Education and Training, Nguyen Thien Nhan, said the education sector should focus society's attention on the benefit of learning, to provide a favourable learning environment for students across the country. "I once visited Tra Vinh Province, and local authorities told me that poor families could not produce enough to eat without the help of their children, if we could provide them 10 kilos of rice a month, the children would not have to do farm work and could attend school," said Nhan, adding, "Some children have to travel great distances to go to school, we should provide transport to help them." "We must help students in accordance with their own situation and local conditions," he said. In the 2008-09 school year, Nhan said the Ministry of Education and Training would launch a new campaign; "Friendly school, active students". The new campaign aims to develop clean and green schools, and will help teachers develop a creative curriculum where students can enjoy healthy activities in conjunction with school work. "Through the campaign, we believe that the number of students dropping out of schools will reduce next year," Nhan said. He noted that the Ministry would continue the fight against cheating in examinations by publishing information on localities where cheating is widespread.According to Nhan, 2008-09 school year will be a break-through year in terms of applying IT. (Source: Viet Nam News) 8 4- BUSINESSES THINK LITTLE OF TRAINING QUALITY According to the Ministry of Education and Training, 45- 62% of students can get jobs within three months after they graduate from university or college, and 90-100% of students can get jobs within two years. Only 60% of polled students said that they could find jobs related to the branch in which were trained, while 30% said that their jobs are not closely related to their specialty field, and the remaining 10% said they worked in completely different fields. Businesses complain that graduates lack a lot of skills necessary for work, like foreign language skills, informatics and soft skills. Vietnamese students are very good in theory and bad in practice 9 They said that students of the modern age prove to be dynamic and eager to learn, but they still have a lot of shortcomings. Especially, they lack professional skills and get confused when applying knowledge in practice. According to Phan Tri Dung, Chairman of Petech Company, MOET believes that Vietnamese students are very good in theory and bad in practice. However, Dung said that he does not agree with the viewpoint. It is true that Vietnamese graduates are not good in practice, but they are even worse in theory, Dung said. A lot of companies which employ new graduates have to retrain students so they can carry out their jobs. According to statistics, only 20% of newly-graduating engineers can absorb such training programmes because their theoretic knowledge is far from sufficient. Currently, at universities, students learn only to pass tests and write graduate theses. Dung also said that graduates lack creativeness. In order to prove this, he cited an example. Vietnamese students always get high prizes at international competitions, but the number of inventions of Vietnamese students is 100 times lower than those of foreign students. 5- ONLINE CONFERENCE URGES EDUCATION REFORM WITH ICT 10