Education

An energy group led by the US-based Chevron company will help to upgrade schools and provide scholarships for poor students in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Region.

A cashier at a school in Nghe An was accused of misappropriating over VND230 million to pay for medical services.

The MoET should consider restructuring the education system by cutting basic education by three years, an expert suggested.

Vietnam’s education policy focus is regularly shifting from the right to education in general to the right to quality education.

The recent increase in crimes among young people is a proven evidence of education failure, one education expert said.

Vietnam and Cuba have signed a cooperation agreement on academic exchanges between their tertiary education establishments.

The northern province of Ha Nam will become the first locality nationwide to have safe routes to school under a project funded by the Global Road Safety Partnership.

Many parents in big cities have been racing to send their children to prestigious schools.

One-thousand days since the idea of building mobile schools and provide computer education to children in rural areas struck Nguyen Van Hanh, five such institutions have been set up.

A mother in HCM City has denounced a local kindergarten teacher for using sleeping pills on her two-year-old child.

Large enterprises have been encouraged to increase their cooperation with education institutions to increase the expertise of the Vietnamese workforce.

An incident at a HCM City school in which many students tore up their history lessons after learning that it would not be on their final exams has stirred controversy.

A cooperation agreement in hi-tech engineer training was signed in HCM City by France’s Dasault Systèmes Group, the French Education Ministry and the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi.

A boarding school in the remote village of Ta Hoc, Son La Province is struggling with food shortages.

The PM has agreed to lower the current quota of 450 students for every 10,000 people to between 300 and 350 students by 2020.

Primary schools in HCM City face overcrowding because of the large number of children born in the lucky "Year of the Pig" (2007).

Private kindergartens have mushroomed in the new urban areas in Hanoi, but many offer low-quality services.

Students in Vietnam are increasingly opting for online university entrance exam training courses, according to education experts.

Parents push to gain acceptance for their children in prestigious schools may do more harm than good, some experts warned.