Education

To earn money, some university students have been taking classes and roll calls posing and have to bear the consequences.

As part of the national strategy on vocational training development, the HCM City authorities aim to improve facilities and teaching at 14 selected schools.

A literature exam stirred up controversy when it required students to give opinions on statements of two controversial young girls in Vietnam's showbiz.

Take a Monet, a Turner and other paintings worth millions of dollars and lend them to schools for a day. It may sound like a looming disaster, but not to British organisers of a project bringing great art to kids.

Almost 70 Canadian institutions will join the 2013 Canada Education Week, to be held in Vietnam from October 13 to 19.

Many students in HCM City have been taking Recotus cough medicine over the past two years as a recreational drug.

Thousands of students in low-lying areas of some central provinces still cannot return to class due to the damage caused by the 10th storm.

Many parents are ready to spend bribes of up to USD3,000 so that their children are admitted to well-known primary schools.

Vietnam should renew its attitude towards education and education management so it could train teachers with intellectual skills and creativity, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said in Hanoi yesterday.

Nearly 90 American universities and colleges will arrive in Vietnam for the Institute of International Education’s overseas study exhibitions in HCM City (October 6), Hanoi (October 8), and Da Nang (October 10).

A seminar on the UK-Vietnam cooperation in education and training was held in Hanoi on September 30 within the framework of the UK’s Great Week in Vietnam.

More and more newly-graduated university students are applying for higher education after being unable to find a job with their diplomas.

The private university system is potentially facing its end under the current policies, said the experts at a conference about private universities held in Hanoi.

Hanoi is going to launch a pilot project in which parents will supervise and partly decide what exactly their fees will pay for at public schools.

Fourteen overseas Vietnamese teachers will have a chance to improve their skills of teaching Vietnamese language when attending a course opened in Hanoi on September 26.

More than 8,000 disadvantaged students have received performance-based tuition subsidies under a three-year program funded by the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Hundreds of students from low-income households in Ha Nam Province have been given material support and scholarships from the Study Promotion Fund for their achievements.

The first complete Vietnamese software package to assist primary students and teachers studying their mother tongue was presented to the public in Hanoi on September 20.

Education experts have proposed significant changes across the board for Vietnamese education.