Vietnam to Dismiss Education Officials Involving in Grade Cheating Case: Minister

Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training is determined to sack officials and teachers relating to the grade cheating case of 222 students in 2018, said Minister Phung Xuan Nha. Minister Nha admitted that the current exam regulations have loopholes and the ministry will fix it. Besides, he restated the ministry’s viewpoint of letting universities having the full autonomy in dealing with the students with violations. Currently, only schools of the police expelled all learners with problems, while some others kept students with qualified regraded scores. The national high school graduation exam-university entrance exam in 2019 recorded the registration of over 886,000 learners, including 653,000 registering for university entrance. (Nhan Dan, baodanang, Nhan Dan, Nhan Dan, news.zing, VietnamNet, VietnamNet, VTV, english.Saigon Times Daily, eexpress, Tien Phong, VnExpress, Giao Duc Thoi Dai)