Education

HCM city to host 1st Asian Undergraduate Summit

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.

Schools struggle to choose from large pool of ‘excellent’ students

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

Summer camp military courses proving popular

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

Kindergarten certificate not needed for 1st grade enrolment

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

Hanoi National University revolutionizes nat’l high school exam

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.

Vietnam looks to tighten education cooperation with France

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.

Teachers overloaded with work under new marking system

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.

Experts, parents question unusually high number of ‘excellent’ students

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

Mock high school finals raise concerns

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.

Kindergartens shut down, parents of 1,100 children headaches

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.

Thousands of students expected to fail exams to attend state schools

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.

Culture week seeks to raise funds for school

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.

Police seize 7,000 pirated books in Hanoi

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.

Training helps staff shortages

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.

Man offers classes to poor children in HCM City

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

Vietnam dreams of exporting education services

Education exports are a “multi-billion dollar industry”. Why doesn’t Vietnam think of exporting its education services?

US senators hold exchange with HCM City students

Senator John McCain, who is leading a US Senate delegation visiting Vietnam this week, met on May 29 with students from the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Australia helps Vietnam with vocational training

Vocational education and training is a key area of cooperation between Vietnam and Australia and a primary lever for reducing poverty in the country, said Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Hugh Borrowman.

Pedagogical schools urged to keep up with the times

The country must reform pedagogical schools so future teachers can keep up with changes in education requirements, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien said.