Education

Rector of the Hanoi University of Science Nguyen Van Noi talks to the Vietnam News Agency about the preparations for the 46th International Chemistry Olympiad, which will be organised in Vietnam this July.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has stressed the need to renovate exams and education management at a February 13 conference held by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Only 31 out of over 400 universities and colleges across Vietnam have sent plans to organise independent entrance exams.

HCM City hopes to ensure that by next year all children from the age of one will be cared for at schools, according to the Secretary of the municipal Party Committee.

The director of the Higher Education Department said that the recent suspension of new admissions for 207 university courses was aimed at increasing the quality of education.

Ho Manh Giang, is the first and sole Pako ethnic minority man in Thua Thien-Hue province, to achieve an MA degree from a big US university.

Only six percent of secondary school graduates in Vietnam go to vocational schools. More than a half of high school graduates go to universities and junior colleges.

A large number of unemployed university graduates stayed in rented housing or did seasonal jobs in HCMC instead of returning home for Tet.

A quarter of a billion children worldwide are failing to learn basic reading and maths skills in an education crisis that costs governments $129 billion annually, said the UN.

Vietnamese students win high prizes at many international competitions, but Vietnam is among the countries with the lowest labour productivity index in the world.

Three elderly men in northern Bac Giang Province are locally famous for further higher education after retirement.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam has asked the Ministry of Education and Training to reconsider giving foreign names to universities.

Some 207 specilisation courses of 71 universities nationwide will have to stop new admissions from this year.

Hungary has announced it will grant 50 full scholarships to Vietnamese students in the 2014-2015 academic year.

A high school in a harsh area in Thanh Hoa Province has only male teachers, who are considered local heroes for the efforts they must make just to get to school.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked that the East Sea and Vietnam's sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes be taught at all levels.

The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and late General Vo Nguyen Giap’s family have built a primary complex on a former battle field in Cao Bang province.

According to the third Education First English Proficiency Index, Vietnam's ranking has gone from 31st out of 54 countries in 2012 to 28th out of 60.

Days away from giving birth and living apart from her family, 16-year-old Ying is one of a growing number of Thai teenagers to fall pregnant every year in a country where sex education is focused on the married.