Education

As many as 660,000 rural workers received vocational training in the period 2010-2013, mainly in husbandry and fishery, as part of the national new rural development programme.

Vietnam National University, Hanoi and other universities throughout the nation should pay particular attention to nurturing the social and moral values of students as an integral part of the education process.

The outstanding results achieved by Vietnamese students at the International Mathematical Olympiad provide a solid foundation for the country to build mathematical development programs in the future.

A study, conducted by the Ministry of Education and Training, found that 1.1 million children between 5-14 years of age do not attend school, a workshop in Hanoi on September 11 heard.

Private high schools in HCM City are facing problems recruiting students for the new school year.

The Ministry of Education and Training has approved two sets of teaching material on anti-corruption to be used for colleges and universities.

An increasing amount of university graduates are being forced to take jobs that are not in the fields of their majors.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to combine the annual national high school exam and the university entrance exam from next year. At present, they are held separately.

ASEAN senior officials on education convened their 9th meeting in Vientiane , Laos on September 9 to prepare for the upcoming 8th ASEAN Education Ministers’ Meeting (ASED 8), also to be held in the Lao capital.

More than 22 million students started their school year across Vietnam on September 5.

The deputy minister of Education and Training explained the details of the new instructions on methods to review and mark first-graders.

The Department of Education and Training in Nghe An Province reported that 660 students did not re-register for classes in this new school year.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong beat a drum on the occasion of the beginning of the new academic year on September 4 at Hanoi’s Nguyen Gia Thieu high school, which he attended nearly 60 years ago.

The Embassy of Germany awarded the German language certificate (DSD I) to 63 students of Foreign Language Specialized School and Viet Duc High School in Hanoi on August 29.

Vietnam's education experts on August 28 called for more efforts to better prepare students for their respective career choices and entry into the labour market during their years in secondary education.

While many Vietnamese citizens who study abroad choose not to return, others have found successful careers in their home country.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the education sector to accelerate the granting of autonomy to State-run universities, which he said is a breakthrough to improve tertiary education quality.

Le Quoc Viet has received the prestigious award Innovators Under 35 for his “deep learning” research, according to the US leading magazine MIT Technology Review.

Over 400 scholarships worth VND 8 million each were awarded to high school students in the northern region on August 24 by the French scientific organization, Rencontres du Vietnam (Meetings of Vietnam).