Opinion

English is the means, knowledge is the goal

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Decision No. 2371/QD-TTg dated October 27, 2025 approving the Project "Making English a second language in schools in the period 2025-2035, vision to 2045" is being gradually concretized in schools.

Protecting workers from black credit is protecting peace for the whole community

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Workers borrow money, relatives are terrorized, colleagues are harassed, businesses and trade union officials are also not at peace.

Turn on the fan and cover yourself with a blanket

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It rained heavily at night, the morning atmosphere in the park was so fresh. He ran past two exercising grandmothers who were gossiping. The thin grandmother told the fat grandmother: "You turned on the fan and covered yourself with a blanket and slept so well last night" reminding him of his childhood days when he also did so. At that time, his mother laughed and said: "You are unlike anyone else". Now that you have grown up, you realize that people do not live according to logic but according to... feelings.

Textbooks do not need to contain all knowledge but need to help students know how to learn everything

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The general education program and textbooks will be adjusted in the direction of reducing academicity, increasing practice, experience, and strengthening comprehensive education.

A chicken and a big lesson in school property management

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After the case of "bringing a chicken home", Ms. Nguyen Thi Hai, former principal of Minh Luong Kindergarten in Lao Cai, was proposed to be considered for disciplinary action against officials for violations in financial and accounting work.

Social insurance contributions are not capital for businesses to rotate

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The Department of Home Affairs of Lam Dong province discovered that businesses used workers' own social insurance money to rotate capital.

Don't let wild birds escape this trap and fall into another trap

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Le Thuy Commune Police, Quang Tri coordinated with forest rangers to patrol Loc An field, preventing illegal wild bird hunting.

Boarding meals and the story of transparency, responsibility for supervision

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A semi-boarding meal cannot be comprehensively concluded on quality, but the image of a "scattered" lunch makes parents question the quantification and cost. For children, meals cannot just be "eating for show" but must be nutritious, safe, and commensurate with every penny paid.

Knowing enough is wealth

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Big and fat like a Sumo athlete, the technology motorbike taxi driver looked at me and smiled: "Go on the car, brother!". I got on the car, urged to drive a little faster because I was afraid of being late for the meeting. He nodded but the steering still maintained a calm, strangely steady pace amidst the crowded traffic. Asking him where he was, he said his house was near Kham Thien market. Then suddenly, he confided about the darkest period of his life he had just passed.

Strict management so that private clinics no longer have the opportunity to "draw diseases, extort money

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To prevent the situation of private clinics "drawing diseases, extorting money", management agencies must detect violations from the first signs, instead of waiting for patients to report.

Don't wait for images of "scattered" student meals to be posted online to check

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The continuous reports of rudimentary semi-boarding meals show that inspection cannot only be carried out after images appear on social networks.

Keeping young workers with sustainable jobs

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The situation of the direct labor force at many construction sites becoming increasingly older is raising a thought-provoking question: why is the job there with relatively good income still difficult to attract young people?

School merger must go hand in hand with improving the quality of education

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The locality expects the merger of 13 primary schools to contribute to unifying the management model, coordinating resources and gradually reducing the pressure of running schools and classes.

When doctors turn patient anxiety into a tool to make money

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During the procedure, the medical team made the patient painful and mentally confused, and had to spend more money to make a "higher-end procedure" package.

When no one applauds

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The child got high scores, the parents smiled: "So good!". Colleagues completed a difficult project, the whole room applauded and congratulated. The friend who just lost a few pounds, everyone said: "Looks completely different!". But when it came to me, even though I had gone a long way, the most familiar sentence was: "If only I had done better...".

Proactively prevent epidemics, protect students' health

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The 2026-2027 school year begins at a time when many localities record an increase in common infectious diseases in children. When millions of students return to school, the level of exposure increases, and the risk of pathogens spreading from one family to the classroom and then continuing to return to many other families is also greater.

Boarding meals for students are interrupted just because of seals

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The delay in issuing and renewing seals after school arrangement is directly affecting boarding activities and the lives of many families.

Ha Tinh parents do not have to write applications for what they naturally enjoy

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Preschool children and public high school students in Ha Tinh province are exempt from tuition fees; private and semi-public schools are adjusted tuition fees but the maximum increase is 10%.

Learn football, learn thinking, learn personality

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Have you seen many unsatisfactory images in the domestic youth football playground recently?

Youth like a rain

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There are rainstorms that just need to nestle under the porch for a few minutes and the sun rises again. But there are also rainstorms that last a lifetime, and then when your hair turns gray, you are startled to see that your shirt has been soaked since who knows when. Youth is the same. Some people say: "Youth is like a shower, and I am the one who forgot to wear a raincoat". It sounds light and permeable. When young, everyone thinks they have plenty of time to prepare for everything. But life rarely tells.