Education

Many students and parents in HCM City are being conned by swindlers who claim they can get them admission to any university without taking exams.

History is a science and not a political tool, a vice president of the Vietnamese Association of Historical Sciences says.

A woman from Tam Phuoc commune in the central province of Quang Nam on July 31 caught a butterfly with wing span of up to 50 centimetres.

The Vietnamese Government will give priority to training experts for nuclear power plant projects, said Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Seven Vietnamese schools stand in the top 100 universities in Southeast Asia, according to the 2011 Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

A Sino-Nom calligraphy training programme will open at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi this September.

A local private publishing house plans to sue some foreign language centres, private bookstores and universities in HCM City for book piracy.

Vietnamese is doing more to encourage students to join the International Science and Engineering Fair.

Hue University will coordinate with Taiwanese Meiho University to enroll students specialising in finance and information management in September.

The quality of Vietnam’s labour force is lower than that in regional countries as the majority of laboures is blue-collar workers.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to use mind map in a large scale to help renovate teaching method.

Vietnamese team won bronzes at the 52nd International Mathematics Olympiad, said the Department of Examinations and Education Quality Assessment.

Foreign language centres, which have been mushrooming in HCM City, have been using eye-catching adverts to attract students.

Japan and Vietnam signed an exchange of notes on a human resource development scholarship with a budget of $4.16 million in Hanoi.

Dantri/DTiNews held a live, online forum with the Swiss Education Group on the opportunities in hotel management study in Switzerland.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged the educational sector to continue management and finance reforms to improve education quality.

Vietnam bagged 7 medals at two international science contests in Taiwan and Turkey, said an agency from the Ministry of Education and Training.

Vietnamese students brought home five medals from the 42 nd International Physics Olympiad that took place in Thailand from July 8-18.

Overloaded kindergarten system was the focus of concern from delegates during a question-and-answer session at Hanoi People's Council.