Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee said there is a need to collect feedback from the general population and incorporate them into the draft of the revised education law.

Viet Nam has carried out 7 mass paroles during the last 10 years with over 87,000 convicts released early, of which 50,000 were reported to have successfully reinhabited in society and able to find employment, said a report presented to the National Assembly yesterday during a meeting in Hà Nội,

The quality of teachers and training programmes as well as concerns over ethics in education took the spotlight in the 14^th National Assembly’s ongoing Q&A sessions as education minister Phùng Xuân Nhạ took the floor.

National Assembly (NA) deputies on Wednesday agreed that it is necessary to make amendments to the Law on Trade Unions to better protect labourers working for private enterprises.

 The draft amendments to the Competition Law and Law on Higher Education were discussed at the ongoing 22nd sitting of the Standing Committee of the 14^th National Assembly yesterday.

The lawmakers should reconsider the feasibility of a draft regulation asking primary school teachers to have university diplomas given that up to 40 per cent of primary teachers currently fail to meet such requirement, the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children (CCEYC) said on Monday.

As part of efforts to universalise education access, the Ministry of Education and Training has proposed free tuition for all public secondary schools.

An amended higher education law should create a clear legal environment for public universities to become autonomous, representatives of universities have urged.

Dr Lê Quân, deputy minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, speaks to the newspaper Giáo dục Việt Nam (Việt Nam Education) about his idea of a good Law on Higher Education

Việt Nam’s National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân arrived at Changi International Airport yesterday, starting her official visit to Singapore.