Education

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.

More Vietnamese are sending their children overseas to school, but the country lacks even a basic university system to nurture its teachers, an academic said.

On the occasion of Australia Day (January 26), Vietnam News presents an article by Australian Ambassador Hugh Borrowman.

Toyota Motor Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training have presented scholarships to 59 outstanding students from nine universities in the north.

The US Department of State has announced that it is now accepting applications for its Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) for emerging student leaders from Vietnam.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology has completed the procedures to become an official member of Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering (AOTULE) network.

The first group of students being sponsored by the Australian Government's New Colombo Plan to undertake short-term study in Vietnam this year has arrived in Hanoi.

A seminar has been held in Ho Chi Minh City to seek ways to promote sustainable development of education and training in the Mekong Delta region, which lags far behind other areas in the field.