Education

Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training and the United Nations in Vietnam co-organized a ceremony to mark Vietnamese Teachers’ Day and World Teachers’ Day.

Installing cameras in classrooms may inspire teachers to quit en masse, teachers and education officials in Ho Chi Minh City have warned.

Vietnam has joined other nine Asian and seven European countries in an Asia-Europe university education cooperation programme.

Ho Chi Minh City is planning to pilot the installation of camera systems allowing parents to keep watch over their children at the city's kindergarten classrooms.

Mathematician Ngo Bao Chau informed PM of a detailed plan for Vietnam's mathematics research institute.

Universities in Ho Chi Minh City are facing difficulties in moving to the outskirts from downtown areas as ordered by municipal authorities in 2006.

An experimental set of five new textbooks for first graders has created great interest among students and teachers at a private school in Hanoi.

South Korea's most prestigious university wants to make Vietnam the location of its first overseas campus.

Vietnam plans to spend USD118 million towards the development of its gifted high school system, said an official.

713 scholarships were awarded on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the “Talent Encouragement” scholarship.

Schools in flood-hit areas in the central province of Quang Binh are opened after the flood but thousands of pupils lack books and textbooks.

Public universities and colleges are short on accommodation and facilities for students, according to a new study.

An average of 21 Vietnamese students shares a seat in libraries. Of the 196 universities and colleges, 24 are without libraries while 119 are without e-libraries.

More mechanisms should be created to help Vietnam's 5 million disabled people access job training to make sure they fully benefit from the new Law on People with Disabilities.

The 2nd deadly flood to hit Vietnam this year has left 86 schools in Huong Khe District, central Ha Tinh Province, buried in mud.

Teacher Nguyen Lan Phuong has spent 10 years devoting her life to the education of Angola.

Despite suffering from a disability, a teacher has educated less fortunate students for 20 years.

The Ministry of Education and Training has asked local education authorities to tighten control over students attending in-service programs.

About 14,000 students in Quang Binh are unable to return to school due to damages from the recent flooding.