Education

Teachers working in the Vietnam Friendship Village did not receive any State allowances while regulations said that they are eligible for allowances worth 70% of their salaries.

Vietnam Education Publishing House and Advanced International JS Company signed a contract to publish the first e-books.

Parents and students have been intensively preparing for the race to high schools, the race which is no less stressful than the university entrance exam.

A total of more than 963,000 students sit high-school graduation exams on the morning of June 2 with their first subject being literature.

The Ministry of Education and Training will require professors at music and art schools to teach a maximum 440 hours a year.

The Draft Law No. 3 on university training would let schools decide their own tuition fees.

A total of 963,571 students will take their high-school graduation examinations from June 2-4, said the Ministry of Education and Training.

Hundreds of parents surrounded a school in Hanoi after hearing their children may not be accepted to the school.

Teachers in HCM City are facing major challenges in carrying out science lessons due a shortage of lab equipment.

Seven private educational institutions have been illegally offering courses, affiliating themselves with foreign colleges and granting degrees without authorisation, an inspection has revealed.

Educators have urged to set up a new order to ensure that study consultancy firms in Vietnamese territory operate in a right track.

The Ministry of Education and Training has stopped the state budget funded programme on sending Vietnamese students abroad.

Many high school students are avoiding arduous domestic university entrance exams by opting to study abroad.

Sex is too sensitive to be taught at K-12 schools, granted a growing number of students falling in love and having sex with each other.

Public kindergartens deny application for three and four year old kids to help HCMC universalise preschool education for five year old.

Students at 40 secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City have been learning about wildlife preservation through extracurricular classes offered in temporary tents set up on their campuses.

Despite numerous study consultancy firms having been established across Vietnam, many of them have been found as not meeting the requirements for operation.

A programme launched two years ago to provide vocational training to rural workers will focus on quality and not quantity though it targets training 600,000 people this year.

The Ministry of Education's inspectorate found several violations in joint training programmes by Haiphong Medical University.