Education

Many Vietnamese parents have expressed concerns over troubling content in children's comic books which are widely available at bookstores and on internet.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has adopted a project to establish a Fulbright Vietnam University under the non-profit foreign-invested university model.

The on-going tension on the East Sea following China's illegal placement of an oil rig inside Vietnam's exclusive economic zone has been included into this year’s high school graduation literature exam.

More than 900,000 high school students nationwide started the national graduation exams today, June 2.

Many schools in Vietnam have been reporting extremely high test results, while the actual quality education is deficient.

More and more students are opting to choose senior high school instead of vocational school in HCM City as enrollment continues to drop for the 2014-15 academic year.

A headmaster in a remote district of Gia Lai province has won the respect of the local community for personally borrowing hundreds of millions of VND to build a school.

The headmaster of Hanoi Law University, Phan Chi Hieu, said that the university is preparing a plan to open an international marine law faculty for submission to the Ministry of Education and Training this year.

All eight Vietnamese students have won prizes at the 15th Asian Physics Olympiad (AphO 2014) in Singapore, according to the Department for Testing and Education Quality Accreditation under Ministry of Education and Training.

Vietnam National University (VNU) – Hanoi remained the country’s top university based on the latest rankings released by QS (Quacquarelli Symond), leading two other Vietnamese schools in the list of Asia’s best universities.

Authorities in HCM City are working to solve an ongoing shortage of preschool teachers, which is becoming a serious issue in meeting demand and quality standards for early childhood education.

This year, pedagogical universities in Vietnam have received a sharp fall in the number of applications after a warning about the teacher redundancy.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) emerged as top and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) jumped to seventh in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’s Asia university rankings in 2014.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) held a ceremony in Hanoi on May 9 to meet with 16 Vietnamese students who will attend the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2014) in the US, from May 11-16.

Many universities in Vietnam are trying by all means to attract lecturers with doctorate degrees to meet the MoET's quotas to open new departments.

A recent survey showed that thousands of students do not know what to do or how to find jobs after failing high school graduation exams and university entrance exams.

Even though there have been many warnings about redundancy in the fields of finance and banking, students continue to apply to these departments.

Domestic investors are seeing great opportunities to dominate the international education market in Vietnam.

Parents in HCM City have begun their race to find the best primary schools for their children even though the new academic year is still months away.