Education

The 7th Innovative Youth Festival kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on November 8, attracting the participation of thousands of students.

The Vietnamese Students Association in the UK organised an annual congress with the aim of consolidating the organisation to be able to effectively represent more than 8,000 Vietnamese students in the UK.

A stage project focusing on rhino protection will be carried out at nine primary and secondary schools in HCM City, with an aim to raise awareness of the importance of saving the species.

A ceremony to honour 50 elite Vietnamese students who recorded high results in their academic studies and have won international prizes has been scheduled for November 3 in Hanoi.

The 2014 National Robothon Contest is set to kick off in Ho Chi Minh City on November 1 with the participation of 62 teams from across the country, the HCM City Education and Training Department announced on October 28.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Department of Education and Training to pull the plug on its pilot project and replace it with an integrated English teaching curriculum.

Twelve Vietnamese students, aged between 14 and 16, have received ASEAN scholarships to begin their study in Singapore.

Dinh Dinh Nhan has become the first Vietnamese student securing GISF, an international security certification, with a score of 87 percent.

Several international and private schools in Hanoi charge very high tuition fees, sometimes reaching the hundreds of millions of VND per year.

The Ministry of Education and Training has issued an exemption to foreign languages for the high school graduation exam next year.

Vietnamese students took home three silver and seven bronze medals at the 11th International Mathematics and Science Olympiad (IMSO) held recently in Indonesia.

A six-storey primary school in HCM City has been forced to hold its flag-raising ceremony on the top floor due to limited space.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien threw her support behind a proposal to include literature in the entrance exam for medical universities.

Authors of 105 winning projects at the 10th national contest for children’s initiatives were honoured at a ceremony in Hanoi on October 12.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training in collaboration with the Non-Governmental Organization Plan in Vietnam launched a safe, friendly and equal school project in Thach That high school in Hanoi on October 11 in response to International Day

The US on October 7 granted US$20,000 to the Da Nang disadvantaged youth (REACH) centre, which specialises in providing vocational training, career advice and job placement services to disadvantaged youths.

Many universities in Vietnam have creating rules forbidding their students from wearing jeans, thin clothes and slippers to class.

Three students from the University of Communications and Transport in HCM City have been suspended from school for sexually harassing a female classmate.

In at least one education expert's opinion, the public might have to pay increased textbook prices because of royalty fees due to authors.