Education

Vietnam and the German State of Hessen will work hard together to make the Vietnamese-German University a high quality educational centre in the country and region.

Vietnamese students who studied abroad are also finding it difficult to find suitable jobs on their return to Vietnam.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino signed a law Wednesday giving children three extra years of schooling, one of his key reforms aimed at lifting the country out of poverty.

Many primary schools in HCM City are still facing various difficulties in applying the new national English training programme due to teacher and funding shortfalls.

Twelve Vietnamese students have departed for the US to attend the International Science and Engineering Fair 2013.

Russia will grant 335 scholarships to Vietnamese undergraduate and post-graduate students in 2013.

An official believes that due to the scarcity of jobs, people are looking at other options rather than continuing tertiary education.

The country should revise the 2006 Law on Vocational Training in order to get private sectors to invest more in this practice and attract more students to trade jobs, said Duong Duc Lan, Director of the General Department for

As many as 130 disadvantaged Vietnamese students who have made outstanding achievements in study have been selected for scholarships in the second term of the 2012-2013 academic year.

Asia Foundation has presented scholarships to 70 poor female students in the southern province of An Giang.

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.