The surveys on the English teaching ability conducted in some big cities and provinces showed that the number of teachers meeting the required standards is incredibly low.
Can Tho and An Giang have just made public the result of the survey on English teachers’ capability. In Can Tho City, according to Tran Trong Khiem, Director of the local education department, only several teachers can meet the standards out of the 181 teachers who attended the test.

The same situation was found in An Giang province. Only 17.8 percent of high schools teachers meet the requirements. Meanwhile, the figures are 10 percent for secondary school, and only five percent for primary school teachers. This means that only 165 teachers can meet the standards in the large An Giang province.

Masters also failed

The number of teachers meeting requirements is much lower in Dong Thap province. Only two teachers have been found as meeting the standards after a test organized for primary and secondary school teachers.

A high ranking official of the Dong Thap provincial education department said that the result was not a surprise to him.

"It is foreseeable that teachers cannot satisfy the requirements. The teachers were trained at universities and junior colleges in accordance wit ... Xem thêm