Education

Approximately 70% of local students have pursued undergraduate programmes at universities in the US, according to figures released by the Office of Education under the US Embassy in Hanoi.

Training facilities and research institutes of Ho Chi Minh City hope to strengthen cooperation with Osaka Metropolitan University of Japan in technology research and transfer, and improving the quality of human resources.

A total of six Vietnamese universities have been named in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2024 which was released on September 27.

A French higher education exhibition is scheduled to take place at Rex Saigon hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on September 30, and at Pullman Hanoi hotel in the capital on October 1.

As the 2018 general education curriculum is being rolled out at the secondary school level, finding qualified teachers for integrated subjects remains a major bottleneck that schools are struggling to address.

The HCM City Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy Institute has opened a class for nine French students to introduce the uniqueness of Vietnamese traditional medicine.

The education and cuisine of Australia were introduced to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on September 18 with a view to further promoting bilateral connections.

Vietnam has achieved notable successes in eradicating illiteracy, and efforts continue to advance this mission, the Ministry of Education and Training reported on International Literacy Day, which falls on September 8.

Đào Khương Duy, a seventh grader at Huỳnh Tấn Phát Secondary School in Bến Tre Province, has won the third prize in the International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People.

Approximately 23 million students officially began the 2023-2024 academic year as schools nationwide held opening ceremonies on Tuesday morning.

All the four Vietnamese students competing at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2023 have secured medals, comprising one gold, two silver, and one bronze, the Ministry of Education and Training said.

The scientific and educational organisation "Meeting Vietnam" presented 220 Vallet scholarships to outstanding students at high schools and universities in Thua Thien - Hue on September 1.

All 36 students of class 12B2 at Le Thanh Ton School in HCM City's Tan Phu District have won a place at leading medical and pharmaceutical colleges after graduating from high school.

The scientific and educational organisation “Rencontres du Vietnam” (Meeting Vietnam) has presented 175 Vallet scholarships worth 2.59 billion VND ( 107,135 USD) in total to outstanding Vietnamese students.

The online learning platform congdanso.edu.vn has attracted more than 15,100 people since its launch, and nearly 3,000 students and workers in industrial zones are guided in learning on the platform.

Authorities in Hanoi have proposed to build underground classrooms to serve the rising number of students as local schools have no more space for expansion.

The US Agency for International Development on Friday celebrated its successful partnership with Vietnam and Arizona State University to improve STEM education in Vietnamese higher education institutions over the last eight years.

At the conference to summarise the school year 2022-2023 for primary education, the Ministry of Education and Training revealed that over 52,000 grade one students did not pass the first grade.

All three teams with eight junior high school Vietnamese students from Hanoi's Giảng Võ Junior High School, who took part in the World Inventory Creativity Olympic (WICO), have bagged gold medals.