Education

Vietnamese Heroic Mothers will receive bonus points if they participate in university entrance exams, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Another 82 high schools in Ho Chi Minh City will offer financial education classes as part of a soft-skills training programme for the upcoming academic year, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.

Vietnamese contestants bagged seven vocational certificates of excellence in the week-long 42nd Worldskills Competition, which commenced on July 2 in Leipzig, Germany.

HCM City People's Committee has decided to adjust school tuition fees for nursery to high school students in the coming school years.

Vietnam has sent 13 vocational students to the 42nd Worldskills Competition in Leipzig, Germany.

More than 800,000 high school graduates nationwide sat for the first wave of university entrance examination on July 4.

During exam time at universities many landlords opportunistically increase their fees for accommodation because of high demand from students.

The Ministry of Education and Training has requested making environmental protection part of curriculums nationwide in 2014.

Amid rising school violence, many schools in Hanoi are trying to find ways to help students to decrease such behaviour.

The Ministry of Education and Training awarded Director of the British Council in Vietnam Robin Rickard a medal.

Many students at a training centre in Hanoi are instructed to learn sample literary essays to prepare for their university entrance exam.

A Chinese astronaut orbiting more than 300 kilometres (186 miles) above the Earth's surface delivered a video class to children across the country on Thursday, state television showed in a live broadcast.

Under a newly issued directive by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, corruption prevention measures will be taught at educational and training facilities from the 2013-2014 academic year.

The Japanese Government will give 243,000 USD to the expansion of a secondary school in central Thanh Hoa province and the building of a new primary school in northern Nam Dinh province.

A music night with the theme Thap Sang Uoc Mo (To Light up a Dream) will raise money for a fund that offers scholarships to poor and ethnic minority students who have excellent learning results.

Key English teachers have been trained in a new innovative English teaching method for primary schools which focuses on learners instead of teachers.

Nguyen Thuy Tien and 10 other students from developing countries have received the World Deaf Leadership Scholarship from the US Gallaudet University.

Several more colleges have been fined for failing to comply with regulations on joint training programmes.

Universities that were set up under a plan to build international standardised universities still have to rent infrastructure, an inspection has found.