Education

Vietnam ranks 10th in a list of countries with the most engineering graduates, with 100,390 engineers graduating every year.

Vietnamese are divided on the existence of schools for the gifted and classes of selected students. Some believe schools for the gifted are not good for students, while others think the schools should be part of the educational system.

Students throughout the country who must take high school graduation exams at various venues are finding free accommodations through the Facebook page of HCM City's Exam Season Assistance's Student Assistance Centre.

Recent reports released by state management agencies have repeatedly warned about the increasingly high unemployment rate of university graduates but most high school graduates prioritise higher education.

The 1st Asian Undergraduate Summit (AUS) bringing together undergraduate students of diverse disciplines and providing them with the opportunity to engage in meaningful academic, cultural, and social exchange will get underway on June 14-19 in HCM City.

Secondary schools in Hanoi are finding it hard to select the best students among thousands of primary school graduates with excellent marks.

Many parents are sending their children to military summer camps in the hope they will learn life skills and discipline in a safe environment.

HCM City's Education Department has ordered the city's primary schools to create favourable conditions for first grade enrolments.

The Hanoi National University (HNU) has said it has successfully organized the key test to select best students. Educators have suggested applying the new exam model for national high school finals.

Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan is on a working visit to France from June 4-9 with a hope of enhancing bilateral cooperation in the field.

Most primary school students received positive remarks from teachers at the end of the 2014-2015 academic year under a new marking system that assesses students with comments, not marks.

Most schools in large cities have reported that 90 percent of their students are considered excellent, a figure described as “abnormally high”.

The low marks that high school students in HCM City received at a mock exam organized by the city’s education department have raised worries that the national finals would be too difficult for students.

Parents of over 1,100 kindergarten children are shocked and worried after two kindergarten schools of Hoa Mai and Mua Xuan in Khuong Mai Ward in Hanoi's Thanh Xuan District suddenly shut down last Monday without notice.

The high school entrance exam is expected to be very tough this year due to the sharp increase in the number of examinees. There will also be fewer available seats at state-owned schools, making admissions even more competitive.

An art week has been organised to raise funds for a school building for more than 100 Mong ethnic children in the mountainous Lao Lung Tung village, Ha Giang Province.

Hanoi Police seized more than 7,000 pirated books on Sunday in a sudden raid on a workshop that illegally printed books in Hai Ba Trung District's Truong Dinh Street.

Cooperation programmes among localities in the Mekong Delta region and universities in and outside the region have helped reduce staff shortages, according to the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region's cultural and social division.

A man in HCM City has opened a class to help hundreds of children in HCM City, many of whom are orphans who work on the streets selling lottery tickets or collecting scrap but come to his house in