Vietnam folk music recognized as cultural heritage  HCMC – Don ca tai tu, a genre of folk music popular in southern Vietnam, has been recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Katherine Muller-Marin, representative of UNESCO in Vietnam and head of UNESCO Office in Hanoi, handed an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity certificate for Don ca tai tu to Vietnam at a ceremony held last night at HCMC’s Reunification Palace. During the ceremony, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, artists from 21 provinces and cities nationwide performed this folk music to entertain audiences. The ministry announced a national action plan to protect and develop this art as pledged with UNESCO. Don ca tai tu has been present in the southern part of the country for over 100 years with many historical vicissitudes. Therefore, the urgent task is to promote its values and transfer it to the younger generation, according to Dang Thi Bich Lien, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
UNESCO earlier recognized seven other
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English teachers should not be blamed for their substandard skills VietNamNet Bridge – Educators believe that the best solution to help improve the qualifications of English teachers is to renovate the way English is taught and learned at schools.  English teachers not qualified enough, why? The majority of the working English teachers have been found as unable to meet the international standards. This has raised a worry that the national English teaching program may fail completely. However, analysts commented that the bad qualifications of English teachers are not a surprise at all. The English teachers are the "products” of the unreasonable English teaching mechanism. Nguyen The Quyet, Headmaster of Tran Cao Van Primary School in Da Nang City, said that students at foreign language schools can only practice reading and writing, therefore, it is understandable why they are bad at listening and speaking. Quyet, when citing a series of reasons to explain the low qualifications of English teachers, stressed that English teachers graduate from different schools, including n
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Hired learners, high examinees make big money in exam season  VietNamNet Bridge – Being present at roll call or attending exams under the names of other students have become very popular services. Other supporting services, including the student card or doctor’s certificate forging, have also mushroomed.
High demand, high supply All the services aim to help students play truant. Under the current regulations, if schools discover their students cheating at exams, they will stop the students’ study. However, the superficial regulations are not strict enough to control students. There are a lot of reasons cited by students to explain why they cannot go to class or attend exams and they need someone to help them do these jobs. In general, the highest demand comes from work-study students, who have to go to work all th
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Foreign students learn about Tet preparations in Mekong Delta  As Tet is only three days away, the foreign students who recently paid a visit to a city in the Mekong Delta probably still cannot forget what they saw and did there when locals prepared for their biggest festival in a year. A Ho Chi Minh City-based Vietnamese language school organized a field trip earlier this month to Sa Dec City in Dong Thap Province to provide about 20 international students with an opportunity to both improve their Vietnamese and have first-hand experiences with how Vietnamese people get ready for Tet, or the Lunar New Year. Traditionally Tet begins on the first day of the lunar year (coinciding with January 31 this year) and lasts till at least the third day but Vietnamese normally start preparing for and celebrate it days before and after the occasion.
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