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School English teachers helped better skills

As many as 1,660 English language teachers at secondary and high schools nationwide will undergo further training to sharpen their English teaching skills this year.
As many as 1,660 English language teachers at secondary and highschools nationwide will undergo further training to sharpen theirEnglish teaching skills this year.
 
The first coursebegan on July 29 and runs through September 8 while the next one isscheduled for October 1-27, according to the Ministry of Education andTraining (MOET).

Eleven universities will involve inproviding the training, such as University of Languages andInternational Studies under the Vietnam National University and Collegeof Foreign Languages of the Hue University.

Theteachers will be trained to achieve level B1 in English (forsecondary-school teachers) and B2, a higher level (for high-schoolteachers) as measured by the Common European Framework of Referencefor Languages (CEFR).

The MOET required theuniversities involved to actively set up training plans and collaboratewith the Departments of Education and Training in undertaking thecourses.-VNA
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