Education

Six education programmes of Lac Hong University in the southern province of Dong Nai have been certified as meeting quality accreditation and recognition standards by the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance.

A national conference was held on October 19 to deploy the Prime Minister’s decree on intensifying the implementation of a project on including human rights in the national education system.

President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Thursday beat the drum to open the 2022-2023 academic year at Vietnam National University-HCM City.

The 12th ASEAN Education Ministers Meeting opened in Hanoi (Vietnam) on October 13 to work out measures to realise priority areas for regional education systems in the post-pandemic period.

Six Vietnamese universities have been listed in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023, which includes nearly 1,800 universities across 104 countries and regions, the largest and most diverse of its kind to date.

Hanoi will host the 12th ASEAN Education Ministers Meeting (ASED) and related meetings from October 11-14 with the participation of the education ministers, senior officials and experts of the 10 member states of ASEAN and their eight partners.

The US Embassy in Hanoi and US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City have announced the Summer 2023 Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) programs for scholars and secondary school educators.

The US Embassy has just hosted the EducationUSA Higher Education Fair in Hanoi.

Vietnam’s Foreign Trade University (FTU) has won the Emerging Change Agent award for the second consecutive year at the Social Business Creation (SBC) competition.

The US Mission in Vietnam is calling for nominations of outstanding candidates to participate in the AY 2023-2024 Fulbright US - ASEAN Visiting Scholar Program.

The US Mission to Vietnam is seeking candidates for the Spring 2023 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Academic Fellowship on civic engagement, environmental issues, social entrepreneurship, and economic development.

A workshop on building common development strategies for higher education has been held at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.

Minister of Education Nguyen Kim Son has concluded his US working trip that aimed to strengthen education partnership between the two countries.

Some Vietnamese border provinces and the Education Department of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region held a video conference on education and vocational training cooperation.

Universities nationwide are implementing more than 400 joint training programmes with foreign countries for the undergraduate level, as per statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training’s Department of International Cooperation.

The Industrial University of HCM City has launched the first Smart Grid Lab in Vietnam, giving 350 students a year the opportunity to build the skills they need to address the power network challenges of the future.

As of December 31, 2021 the education sector of Vietnam had 605 valid foreign investment cooperation projects with a total investment capital of more than US$4.57 billion, an increase of 321 projects compared to five years earlier.

The United States Agency for International Development has announced that it has signed its first-ever Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education and Training to improve the quality of Vietnamese higher education.

A nursery school site in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai made from recycled plastic waste opened to pupils on Friday.