A programme launched two years ago to provide vocational training to rural workers will focus on quality and not quantity though it targets training 600,000 people this year.

The Ministry of Education's inspectorate found several violations in joint training programmes by Haiphong Medical University.

Vietnam has 1,700 vocational training schools which annually provide more than 1.6 million workers but the market is still running short of skilled labourers.

Vietnam is seriously lacking manpower in some professions, while it has many redundant workers in other fields.

A majority of homosexual students are suffering from communal discrimination and violence, according to experts addressing a workshop in Hanoi.

Hundreds of Hanoian parents spent sleepless nights queuing up in front of the Giang Vo Experimental School to buy application forms for their children's studying at the school.

Universities complain that some unreasonable regulations have prevented many people to enter the training courses for doctorates.