Education

Global website US News has released its 2021 global education rankings, with Vietnam placed 59th, up six notches compared to 2020.

As many as 355,369 students nationwide have registered to attend the 2022 high school graduation exams as of 5pm on May 5, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

A total of seven Vietnamese higher education institutions have been listed in the Impact Rankings 2022 by Times Higher Education, the only global performance tables that assess universities against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Ho Chi Minh City-based Hong Bang International University has just welcomed first 20 Indian students majoring in Medicine.

The Australian Embassy in Vietnam and Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on Thursday launched Australia’s next phase of support for Vietnam’s vocational education and training.

Many kindergartens in Hanoi are facing numerous difficulties including teacher shortages as they reopened after a year due to Covid-19 prevention measures.

Around 600,000 kindergarten students in Hanoi will return to schools on April 13 after a year of strictly online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 7 received Alec Cameron, President for RMIT University who is in Hanoi for a working visit to Vietnam.

Vietnamese universities have earned greater reputation worldwide as more of their programmes have received recognition and higher rankings from the UK’s Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) this year.

A workshop to promote education cooperation between Vietnam and the United Kingdom's Cambridge University Press and Assessment (CUPA) was held on April 5 within the framework of the Vietnam Days in the UK 2022.

New Zealand’s University of Auckland and Ho Chi Minh City’s Polytechnic University (HCMUT) have signed a co-operation agreement in the fields of training, research, student exchanges, and lecturers, as well as offering Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes.

Students from grades 1-6 in all 30 districts in Hanoi will return to school from April 6 after nearly a year of studying online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A conference on the future of English language teaching and learning in Vietnam was held on Wednesday by the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV).

A national policy forum for youth will be held on March 30 on the theme of vocational training, the organisers announced at a press briefing on March 28.

Hanoi has been advised to re-open preschools and primary schools.

Hanoi has seen a sharp rise in the rate of students returning school after recovering from Covid-19.

Tens of thousands of girls were due to return to secondary school across Afghanistan Wednesday, more than seven months after the Taliban seized power and imposed harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception for Thomas Vallely, Director of the Vietnam Program at Harvard University and experts from Fulbright University Vietnam on March 18.

Every school has its rules, but tough regulations at some Japanese institutions, mandating everything from black hair to white shoelaces, are facing increasing criticism and even legal action.