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Nearly 1,600 cases of school violence recorded across Vietnam in past 7 years

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Asia/Vietnan/Octubre de 2016/Fuente: Tuoitrenews

RESUMEN: Cerca de 1.600 confrontaciones físicas entre alumnos de diversas partes de Vietnam han sido registrados en los últimos siete años, según un informe publicado por el Ministerio de Educación. El Ministerio de Educación y Capacitación, en coordinación con el Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación de Vietnam, organizó una conferencia el miércoles para abordar las preocupaciones sobre la aparente disminución de la depravación moral de los estudiantes vietnamitas en los últimos años. De acuerdo con estadísticas del Ministerio de Educación y Formación, cerca de 1.600 combates estallaron entre los estudiantes desde el inicio del año escolar 2009, muchos de los cuales fueron clasificados como criminales violaciónes. La gravedad de la violencia también aumentó con el tiempo a un ritmo alarmante, dijo el ministerio, agregando que muchos de los incidentes de armas, incluian cuchillos, machetes, e incluso pistolas de fabricación casera. La violencia no parece ser el único problema que afecta a la moralidad de los adolescentes. Otro informe del Ministerio de Salud mostró las adolescentes constituyen alrededor de 120.000 casos anuales de 1,4 millones de abortos del país.

The Ministry of Education and Training, in coordination with the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences, organized a conference on Wednesday to address concerns over the apparent decline in moral turpitude of Vietnamese students in recent years.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training, nearly 1,600 fights broke out between students since the beginning of the 2009 school year, many of which were categorized as criminal violations.

The severity of the violence also increased over time at an alarming rate, the ministry said, adding that many of the incidents involved weapons, including knives, machetes, and even homemade guns.

The majority of confrontations arose from childish reasons.

Another concern addressed at the conference was the prevalence of violent school videos finding their way onto social media.

In one case, several students filmed their gang attack on one victim and later published the videos online.

In a more recent case, footage depicting two schoolgirls from the north-central province of Nghe An being attacked by a group of female students from another school was uploaded to Facebook on October 4.

The attackers only left the scene after one of the victims was bleeding, sparking immense concern from the public over the responsibility of the local education sector.

Violence does not seem to be the only issue of morality affecting teens. Another report by the Ministry of Health showed teenage girls make up around 120,000 of the country’s annual 1.4 million abortion cases.

According to Tu Du, the biggest maternity hospital in southern Vietnam, about 400 female patients between the ages of 11 and 18 come to the hospital annually to terminate their pregnancy.

Fuente: http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/37518/nearly-1600-cases-of-school-violence-recorded-across-vietnam-in-past-7-years

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Vietnan: Education reforms risk contradiction

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Asia/Vietnan/Octubre de 2016/Fuente: Vietnan News

RESUMEN: Un gran esfuerzo para reformar el sistema educativo de la nación y que sea más práctico y relevante ha sido constante durante los últimos cinco años, pero existe el peligro de que esto se puede tropezar en sus propias contradicciones, según los expertos. el propio ministro de Educación Phùng Xuan Nha ha hablado de la necesidad de evitar «reformar las reformas», lo que indica un reconocimiento y conciencia de los problemas que han surgido, estaño TUC (Noticias) informa. El último proceso de reforma comenzó después de una resolución aprobada por el Congreso el 11 de Parte en 2011. Las deficiencias en su aplicación han provocado la ira pública. Por ejemplo, el Ministerio de Educación y Formación (MoET) anunció el mes pasado que introducirían un programa para enseñar chino y ruso, además de Inglés, como lenguas extranjeras obligatorias en las escuelas primarias y secundarias del próximo año escolar. A esto se opuso a varios expertos y padres.

A major effort to reform the nation’s education system and make it more practical and relevant has been ongoing for the last five years, but there is a danger that this can stumble on its own contradictions, experts say.

Education Minister Phùng Xuân Nhạ himself has spoken about the need to avoid “reforming the reforms”, indicating a recognition and awareness of the problems that have arisen, Tin Tức (News) reports.

The latest reform process began after a resolution passed by the 11th Party Congress in 2011. Shortcomings in its implementation have evoked public ire.

For instance, the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) announced last month they would introduce a programme to teach Chinese and Russian, besides English, as compulsory foreign languages in elementary schools and high schools the next school year. This was opposed by several experts and parents.

Quách Thị Hiệu, mother of a fourth grader in the Nghĩa Tân Elementary School, said “I want my child to learn the language that most countries are speaking. I don’t want her to be a lab mouse for an unreasonable programme.”

Nguyễn Minh Thuyết, a former vice-chair of the National Assembly’s Committee for Youth and Children, had similar concerns.

He said that in the context of global integration, English happened to be the most effective language.

“If other languages, apart from English, are made compulsory, several schools will have to recruit more students to fill up the language classes.

“The result will be that students who do not choose English struggle to find jobs when they grow up, or that many students end up having to learn a language they don’t want to, just because there are too many teachers that teach it, and they have to be given work.

“The education ministry must plan such things very carefully,” Thuyết said.

No rush

According to the management board of the 2008-2020 National Language Project, more than VNĐ3.8 billion was spent over the last five years (2011-2015), 60 per cent of it coming from the State Budget.

However, the project is yet to bring about great improvements in the quality of language teaching at secondary and high schools. Given this, the ministry should not rush into a new language programme, Thuyết felt.

Educational reforms need a strong strategy and a clear route. All solutions must be researched carefully and piloted before being replicated, he said.

Another example of good intentions not producing desired results is the admission process for universities and colleges. The process has been tinkered with very often in recent years.

From the 2015 academic year, the high school graduation exam and the university recruitment exam have been rolled into one. The aim was to reduce expenses as well as academic pressure on students.

The MoET has stated that the single exam would create more opportunities for students, but Đào Trọng Thi, another former member of the National Assembly’s Committee for Youth and Children, said that it did not serve a main goal of the reform process, which is to decentralise and help localities and universities become independent and develop more capabilities.

“The ministry organised one single exam and asked all universities and colleges to follow the process that was planned by the ministry, while there is no regulation that required the ministry to be in charge of this process,” he said.

“The recruitment process should be done by the universities and colleges themselves,” he added.

The MoET has announced that next year’s high school graduation exam will consist of two parts – the first one having three independent tests on mathematics, literature and foreign language, and the second having two interdisciplinary tests: a natural sciences test on biology, physics and chemistry; and a social science test on history, geography and civics.

High school students can use the results of the three compulsory tests in part one, in addition with the results of either the natural science or the social science test, to apply to the universities they want.

While this would offer the students more tertiary choices, senior teachers have pointed out some problems.

At a recent conference on the university recruitment process for next year, Nguyễn Thu Anh, principal of Nguyễn Tất Thành Secondary School, said: “The interdisciplinary tests require students to be adept at almost all subjects, which means teachers must adjust their teaching methods accordingly, so that their students’ knowledge is comprehensive.

“However, since there is an enormous amount of information in each textbook, the education ministry needs to provide teachers with a study guide that they can use to best prepare students for the exams.”

Long-term focus

Referring to reform projects that his ministry has been implementing, Education and Training Minister Nhạ said: “Education and training needs solid strategies with long-term feasibility in order to avoid reforming the reforms.”

He noted that while some reforms take effect immediately, others take years to show results. What is important is that reform work is undertaken with utmost seriousness, with each project piloted and evaluated very carefully, he said.

The minister also said that even though it was badly needed, textbook reform was not being carried out because the overall general education programme and curricula have not been finalised.

He said his ministry wanted “deep and direct” involvement of both teachers and authors in the textbook reform process.

In the meantime, he has ordered textbook authors to revise and remove repetitive and unnecessary content in order to reduce overload on both teachers and students.

Fuente: http://vietnamnews.vn/society/344321/education-reforms-risk-contradiction-experts.html

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Vietnan: HCM City to ease ban on extra classes

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Asia/Vietnan/Octubre de 2016/Fuente: Vietnan News

RESUMEN: Vo Van Kiem, jefe de gabinete y portavoz del Comité Popular de la ciudad de HCM, dijo que la prohibición de las clases extra sería revisado.«La política de la ciudad es de prohibir el uso indebido de las categorías extra, de acuerdo con la Circular N ° 17; Sin embargo, la aplicación tendrá una hoja de ruta cuidadosamente considerada, en base a las necesidades de las personas y los resultados de la encuesta «, dijo a la prensa. En la conferencia de prensa celebrada la semana pasada, Vo Van Hoan admitió que el proceso de elaboración de políticas detrás de la prohibición inflexible de clases adicionales o clases particulares no había tomado en cuenta la opinión de la gente. Un enfoque de mano dura con la aplicación de esta política, ha dado lugar a una serie de cuestiones, causando contragolpe cuando los estudiantes y los padres no estaban preparados psicológicamente.

Võ Văn Hoan, chief of staff and spokesperson for the HCM City People’s Committee, said the ban on extra classes would be reviewed.

“The city’s policy is to prohibit misuse of extra classes, in accordance with Circular No. 17; however, the implementation will need a carefully considered roadmap, based on people’s needs and survey results,” he told the press.

At the press conference held last week, Võ Văn Hoan admitted that the policy-making process behind the uncompromising ban of extra classes or private tuitions had not taken people’s opinions into account.

A heavy-handed approach to the implementation of this policy, when students and parents were not psychologically prepared, has led to a number of issues, causing backlash.

“This is a valuable lesson for the city’s authorities. The psychological impact on society must be taken into account”, Hoan said. “Even among the policy-making group, a consensus on the ban on extra classes and private tuitions has not been reached,” he added.

In Việt Nam, private tuitions and extra classes have existed for a long time to assist academically weaker students and prepare strong students for important national examinations/competitions.

«The demand for these extra classes is totally justified,» former minister of education and training (MOET) Prof. Dr. Trần Hồng Quân said.

Parents want their children to attend more classes to avoid lagging behind their peers or simply to cut down the time their children spend on the internet, which they deem fraught with temptations and inappropriate content.

A sense of one-upmanship also plays an important role — when all other parents send their children for extra classes, it’s hard not to do the same.

Private tutoring is not inherently a bad practice; however, the widespread misuse of this form of teaching has led to numerous problems.

In some cases, the official lessons in schools are limited, while the after-school lessons offer more knowledge, tips, knowhow or even exam questions and answers.

This unfair treatment generates mounting pressure for students to join these classes, and hence, abuse is bound to follow.

Teachers try to teach as many classes as possible to gain additional income, but their standard of teaching cannot be guaranteed.

Several private tutoring institutions and training centres are substandard, even though the fee remains exorbitant.

Prohibit the abuse of private tuitions

Nguyễn Thị Thu Cúc, headmaster of the Gia Định High School, said “Current examination system and textbooks are flawed. It’s unreasonable to expect students to acquire all the necessary knowledge on their own, keeping in mind the current difficult and heavy curriculum. In addition, MOET now encourages the self-study approach, but in a classroom, the capacity of students is not the same; some might understand and perform well, while others may not and have to seek extra classes organised by their teachers.”

Hoan stressed, “Abuse of private tuitions will need to be categorically dealt with. In the near future, HCM City will review and rectify state management of extra classes, both in and out of school, formulate better policy to ensure teachers’ income, and renew curriculums, textbooks and the examination system.”

Fuente: http://vietnamnews.vn/society/education/343845/hcm-city-to-ease-ban-on-extra-classes.html#RMkctJvOWsRAXmIM.97

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Abren universidad católica en Vietnam después de 41 años

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Asia/Vietnam/01 Octubre 2016/Fuente: Aciprensa

Hace dos semanas en la ciudad vietnamita de Ho Chi Minh se abrió oficialmente el Instituto Católico de Vietnam, la primera universidad católica en ser creada desde que los comunistas tomaron el país en 1975 y le quitaron a la Iglesia el control de las instituciones educativas.

“El instituto busca mejorar el conocimiento teológico y la competencia entre todos los sacerdotes, religiosos y laicos”, expresó el pasado 14 de septiembre en la ceremonia de inauguración el Obispo de Xuan Loc, Mons. Joseph Dinh Duc Dao, y también rector del instituto.

En los años 1954-1955, Vietnam estaba

dividido en dos países: el norte, que era gobernado por los comunistas; y el sur, que tenía un presidente católico. Durante 300 días la “Operación Pasaje a la Libertad”, realizada por el ejército de Estados Unidos, permitió la libertad de movimiento entre ambos territorios.

Cientos de personas huyeron de Vietnam del Norte a Vietnam del Sur, entre ellos varios católicos que temían la persecución de los comunistas y se sentían a salvo con un presidente de su misma fe.

Sin embargo, tras la caída de Saigón en el sur y el fin de la guerra entre ambos países en 1975, Vietnam fue unificado bajo el dominio de los comunistas y los católicos perdieron muchas de sus libertades, incluyendo la participación en la educación.

En la década de 1990 el gobierno comenzó a eliminar ciertas restricciones. Algunas religiosas comenzaron administrar jardines de infancia y personas adineradas abrieron escuelas católicas privadas, pero ninguna institución educativa estuvo a cargo de la Iglesia.

Desde el año 2011 los obispos de Vietnam iniciaron las gestiones para que la Iglesia tenga a su cargo una universidad. Para ello escribieron una carta al gobierno preguntando si se podía permitir la existencia de escuelas católicas.

“Se recomienda que el Gobierno abra la puerta a la gente religiosa de buena voluntad que aspira a participar en la educación, la cual es considerada clave para abrir el camino a un futuro brillante en el país”, dijeron los obispos en su carta.

En diciembre de 2015, el Arzobispo de Ho Chi Minh, Mons. Paul Bui Van Doc anunció que había recibido el permiso del gobierno para abrir en el año 2016 la primera universidad católica del país.

“La relación entre el Vaticano y el gobierno de Vietnam ha ido mejorando cada vez más, así que les preguntamos y aceptaron”, expresó Mons. Van Doc.

Aunque los primeros alumnos de la universidad son 23 y en su mayoría son sacerdotes que estudiarán teología, se espera que la institución crezca y se diversifique en el futuro. “Después de eso, en el futuro, tal vez muchísimo”, expresó Mons. Van Doc.

Traducido por María Ximena Rondón.

Fuente: https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/abren-universidad-catolica-en-vietnam-despues-de-41-anos-83530/

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Vietnam: Apertura de la primera universidad católica

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Asia/Vietnam/25 Septiembre 2016/Fuente:revistaecclesia /Autor:Ho Chi Minh City (Agencia Fides)

Esta año ha abierto oficialmente la primera Universidad Católica en Vietnam. Durante este curso académico, inaugurado hace unos días, 23 estudiantes asistirán a las clases del Instituto Católico de Vietnam, el nombre oficial de la estructura, según ha informado a la Agencia Fides Mons. Joseph Dinh Duc Dao, Rector del Instituto y presidente de la Comisión Episcopal para la Educación Católica.

“Es un paso importante para la Iglesia vietnamita que tiene lugar durante el tiempo del Jubileo”, señala el Obispo, expresando su satisfacción a la Agencia Fides. “Es una obra de misericordia que, gracias a Dios, comienza en el Año Santo. Nuestro enfoque es el de la compasión, realizada a través del servicio de educación”, explica.

La universidad, la primera desde que el país se reunificó bajo el régimen comunista en 1975, está reconocida oficialmente por la Santa Sede y cuenta con la autorización del gobierno. En la ceremonia de apertura, celebrada el 14 de septiembre en Ho Chi Minh City, el Obispo señaló que “el Instituto tiene como objetivo mejorar el conocimiento y las habilidades teológica de los sacerdotes, religiosos y laicos, para que puedan vivir una vida auténtica de fe en una sociedad que vive una rápida evolución”.

El instituto conferirá el título reconocido de bachillerato, licenciatura y doctorado en teología. De acuerdo con el proyecto será organizado con el fin de ofrecer cursos de teología sacramental, dogmática, moral pero también en liturgia y estudios bíblicos, espiritualidad, misiología, derecho canónico, así como filosofía, psicología y ciencias humanas”

Fuente de la noticia: http://www.revistaecclesia.com/apertura-de-la-primera-universidad-catolica-en-vietnam/

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Vietnan: Education Ministry insists on multiple-choice math exam questions

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Vietnan / 21 de septiembre de 2016 / Fuente: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/

Though the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is satisfied with multiple-choice questions for high-school finals, the Vietnam Mathematical Society (VMS) has advised against implementing the plan.

VMS on September 12 held a meeting with the press to discuss its official view about the MOET plan to apply multiple-choice math exam questions for the 2017 finals.

VMS believes that multiple-choice questions is not appropriate to the education reform being carried out. The new test model will cause students to only find answers to math questions, and skip different stages of thinking.

VMS emphasized that the most important goal in teaching math at high school is helping students improve their thinking skills.

The society representing Vietnamese leading mathematicians has warned that multiple-choice questions will destroy all the achievements gained by Vietnam’s math education in the last tens of years.

Pham Hong Danh, director of Vinh Vien Exam Preparation Center in HCMC, warned that they will thwart students’ creativity.

“With currently designed questions, students not only need to have knowledge, but also have logical thinking and creativity to solve them. In many cases, students cannot solve the questions though they know the answers,” he explained.

“If MOET changes the way math questions are raised, students will rely on rote-learning method. In many cases, they just need to press the calculator’s keyboard to find the answers,” he said.

A high school teacher in Hanoi also said that students should be asked to show the steps of solving math problems, because this shows their thoughts and abilities.

“There are many ways to solve the same problems. Higher marks should be given to those who can solve problems in original ways,” he said, adding that Le Ba Khanh Trinh, a well-known mathematician, once won a special prize because of his original way to solve a math problem at the International Mathematics Olympiad in London in 1979.

“Multiple-choice math questions will create new generations of students who are better at using calculators than thinking,” he said.

However, MOET said that multiple-choice questions have been applied in many developed countries in the world.

SAT and ACT in the US are an example. Each test comprises about 50 math questions in multiple-choice. Millions of students attend the exams to apply for 1,800 universities in the US every year.

MOET said that multiple-choice questions «have many advantages, especially the objectivity and fairness for all students».

Fuente noticia: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/education/163798/education-ministry-insists-on-multiple-choice-math-exam-questions.html

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Vietnam education ministry’s plan for multiple-choice math test sparks debate

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Asia/Vietnan/16 de Septiembre de 2016/Fuente: Tuoitrenews

RESUMEN: Un plan para reemplazar el papel de matemáticas de la escuela nacional actual por un único examen de opción múltiple ha traído opiniones mezcladas entre eruditos locales y el público. El jueves pasado, el Ministerio de Educación y Formación de Vietnam (MoET) anunció el primer borrador de sus ajustes propuestos para el  examen nacional de la escuela secundaria del país, a entrar en vigor el próximo año. El examen fue introducido por primera vez en 2015 después de los exámenes de graduación de la escuela y de acceso a la universidad que antes estaban separados. Los ajustes propuestos por la MoET incluyen cambios sustanciales en los papeles de prueba del examen, incluyendo la sustitución de la tradicional prueba de matemáticas escrita por un documento de opción múltiple.

A plan to replace the current national high school math paper with a multiple-choice only exam has brought mixed opinions from both local scholars and the public.

Last Thursday, Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) announced the first draft of its proposed adjustments to the country’s national high school exam, to take effect next year.

The exam was first introduced in 2015 after the previously separate high school graduation and university entrance exams were merged.

The proposed adjustments by the MoET include substantial changes to the exam’s test papers, including the replacement of the traditional written math test with a multiple-choice paper.

The current format features ten problems to which students are required to write their answers, including their step-by-step workings, before arriving at a solution.

The proposed new math paper will comprise of 50 problems, all in multiple-choice format, for which only one of four given answers is correct.

Questions for the test will be drawn at random by a computer from a standardized and updated question list, according to the ministry’s plan.

The proposal was quickly met with mixed reactions, some raising questions over the proposed formats effectiveness in testing students’ mathematical thinking, while others embraced the change as an effective countermeasure to cheating.

The Vietnam Mathematical Society (VMS) was one of the first and most vocal opponents of the plan, calling a press conference on Monday to publicly voice their objection to the proposed math paper.

According to VMS Secretary General-cum-Vice President, Prof. Dr. Phung Ho Hai, most members of the Society’s Executive Committee agreed that the change from a written math paper to multiple-choice question list was a hasty decision that would leave students and teachers unprepared.

The professor added that the effectiveness of multiple-choice math tests employed by the Vietnam National University Hanoi, upon which the new national math paper is based, had not been properly evaluated.

Therefore, Hai said, the new test format should not be applied until its academic credentials are proven.

“The Executive Committee of VMS strongly advises that the MoET retains the current written format for the math paper in the 2017 national high school exam,” Hai said.

The VMS further explained that employing multiple-choice questions in testing mathematical logic and thinking would completely eliminate students’ analytical and problem-solving skills by encouraging tips and tricks to skip to the final answer, rather than demonstrating a full understanding of the logical steps to arrive at a particular solution.

However, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hoi Nghia, deputy director at Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City, offered a different view, saying that the benefits of multiple-choice tests have not been fully understood in Vietnam even by mathematicians and administrative officials.

According to professor Nghia, objective study is required before reaching any conclusion on whether or not to implement the format in Math papers.

Nghia said he expected the MoET to host national and international seminars on the issue and draw experience from the public and published international math experts.

“In my opinion, the current science of multiple-choice testing does not disqualify it from testing pure mathematical knowledge,” Nghia said.

“Of course a detailed route to its application should be outlined, so that students and teachers can be properly prepared for the transition.”

In addition to a change in the math paper, the MoET’s planned changes to the national high school exam include two new test papers; natural sciences and social sciences, each consisting of 60 multiple-choice questions.

The natural sciences paper tests students’ aptitude in physics, chemistry, and biology, while the social sciences paper is comprised of questions on history, geography, and ethics.

The two new papers will replace the current five separate tests on physics, chemistry, biology, history, and geography, a move the MoET said would reduce costs in organizing the national exam.

Fuente: http://tuoitrenews.vn/education/37041/education-ministrys-plan-for-multiplechoice-math-test-sparks-debate

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