Education

The nation got two big prizes at a March 1 awards ceremony of the 2015 Shell Eco-marathon Asia competition taking place in Manila, the Philippines, attended by more than 100 teams from 17 countries.

In a major change in Vietnamese education, the national high school graduation and the university admission exams have been fused into one.

Students at many schools in remote Dien Bien Province are late coming back to class after the Tet holidays.

The history of Da Nang and its relationship with the Hoang Sa Archipelago (Paracel Islands) will be introduced into the curricula at secondary and high schools in the central coastal city this year, officials have announced.

Nguyen Thi Lan volunteered to work as a teacher in remote Yen Bai Province after she graduated in 2007, and she is still there, working with ethnic minority students.

The Government encourages public universities to manage their own funding in order to improve the quality of education and human resources, PM Nguyen Tan Dung said during a recent visit to Ton Duc Thang University.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau has launched a science club at the Tuan Chau tourist area in Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long Bay with the hope of it become a young scientist incubator, a dream that he has long cherished.

A university education could become out of reach of many poor students as many state-owned schools plan to raise tuition.

The United Nations' Children's Fund and the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences have jointly held a dialogue in Hanoi to discuss a policy on education for girls and women with disabilities.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung praised Ton Duc Thang University's comprehensive autonomy model in which the university makes its own decisions over internal matters.

The Dubai-based Global Education Management Systems Limited, or GEMS Education, said that the company is seeking opportunities to expand its business to emerging markets, including Vietnam, in 2015.

An environmentally friendly kindergarten in Dong Nai Province has won a Building of the Year Award conferred by US architecture magazine Archdaily.

A conference was held in Hanoi to officially release the Vietnam Coalition for Education for All, the fifth non-government organisation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training to implement educational goals.

The Ministry of Education and Training should place school counsellors on the payroll to motivate them more, experts said at a recent workshop.

Two of Vietnam’s newly recognised professors are the youngest and oldest persons receiving this title in the country since 1974, at 37 and 81 years of age.

Vietnam will field nine teams at the 2015 Shell Eco-marathon Asia competition taking place February 26 to March 1 in Manila, the Philippines.

China's education minister has vowed to ban university textbooks which promote "Western values", state media said, in the latest sign of ideological tightening under President Xi Jinping.

President Truong Tan Sang has expressed his hope that the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC) will set an example for the nation by offering training courses up to world-class standards over the next 10-15 years.

‘Kids Read’ – the award-winning scheme developed by the British Council and supported by HSBC – was launched on January 27 in Binh Duong, Vietnam.