Students and lecturers from five of Vietnam’s traditional medicine universities developed communications strategies to combat the use of illegal wildlife products in traditional medicinal treatments.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Strict regulations on clothing and working style for students and lecturers at Cuu Long University has faced strong opposition.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is so difficult for universities to find the lecturers with higher education that this is compared with the job of “picking up the stars on the sky.”

Universities complain that the requirement by the Ministry of Education and Training on having one PhD and three masters for every training major is unfeasible in the Vietnamese conditions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government will tighten the management of universities this year following a recent decision by the Prime Minister.

Educators have pointed out that the university graduation theses nowadays don’t have much scientific value, believing that students should not be required to write theses for the school graduation.

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more students refuse to write theses to graduate universities, though only excellent students are selected to do that.

A lot of students complained that though they have fulfilled the training curricula, they still cannot graduate from universities, because they cannot meet the requirements in the English skills stipulated by the schools.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has admitted that big problems exist in the textbooks for the national education system. It has also been aware of the necessity for a “revolution” in the way of compiling textbooks.

People-founded schools, which are in the danger of getting dissolved because of the lack of students, have been vocal about the indifference of the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) to their difficulties.