Education

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to enhance punishments on illegal acts in establishment of educational institutes.

Children of Kpaih Village in Gia Lai Province have had to swim across a fast-flowing river to get to school for over 10 years.

A five-year pilot program in Ho Chi Minh City to manage and provide vocational training and jobs to the post-detoxified has proved successful.

An ambitious programme to teach English in primary schools has been postponed due to teacher shortages and a dearth of funds.

Many Asian students who walk into South Philadelphia High will be carrying something besides books.

Ethnic H’mong children in Muong Nhe District, Dien Bien Province are facing numerous obstacles on the path to school as their parents are still trying to make ends meet.

Quang Duc is known as the village of teachers because its over 300 families have produced nearly 150 teachers.

A day of violence at South Philadelphia High changed Ly's life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.

Vietnam’s leading mathematicians have high expectations for development of the science in the country with the opening of an advanced research institute.

The 2010-2011 school year is the first year Vietnam will implement a pilot project for teaching foreign languages.

Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh on September 4 attended the new school year opening ceremony at Chu Van An High School in Hanoi.

Conditions have been created in Ho Chi Minh City for more and more children with disabilities to go to school.

Improvements in Vietnam’s tertiary education must be in line with rules, appropriate to the reality and encourage creativity, said Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Many educators have expressed their concern about the feasibility of the plan to universalize preschool education for 5-year-old children.

The Ministry of Education and Training has ruled children should learn English from the third grade onwards but schools are not equipped for this.

Directors from 42 major universities in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia gathered in Ho Chi Minh City to promote cooperation in tertiary education and scientific research.

Australia is looking to step up its cooperation with Vietnam in vocational education and training and to build a bridge between schools of the two countries.

A memorandum of understanding on the US’s higher education programme for leading Vietnamese engineering universities was signed on August 24.

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital concluded its ophthalmic surgical techniques transfer and training programme for Da Nang city on August 20.