Education

The Vietnam team won two gold medals, and one student has a perfect score at the Asian Physics Olympiad 2021 (APhO).

A Vietnamese project has won the third prize at the 2021 Regeneron ISEF Grand Awards, making Vietnam one of 34 countries and territories to be honoured among 81 taking part.

Students from Hanoi bagged one gold, two silver, and a bronze at the 2021 Nordic-Baltic Physics Olympiad, the municipal Department of Education and Training announced on May 14.

Many localities in Vietnam have allowed local students to take an early summer break during the current Covid-19 outbreak.

Schools in many localities have announced an early summer holiday due to the spreading Covid-19 pandemic.

Hanoi authorities have decided to temporarily shut down schools amid the on-going Covid-19 outbreak.

Four Vietnamese universities have entered the Impact Rankings 2021 by the Times Higher Education (THE) on April 21.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday announced the launch of a digitalised education platform to prevent 540,000 students being left without schooling due to coronavirus or conflict.

The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations has opened a training course for UN staff officers with the support of the US’s Global Peace Operations Initiative.

The HCM City People’s Council has revised plans to improve the salaries of new preschool teachers in an effort to address the shortage of teachers at local preschools.

A programme called “Dieu uoc cho em” (Wishes for children) has been launched to call for resources to support the development of education in extremely difficult areas.

Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City has been selected as one of 21 regional training centres of the Belgium-based International Society of Nephrology (ISN).

The Ministry of Education and Training has just allowed local schools to organise online classes to support or replace school classrooms.

The three winners of this year’s Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) contest organised by USAID and Dow Vietnam have been announced.

Joint training programmes and scientific research between universities from Vietnam and Australia have connected students, lecturers, and research institutes in both countries

A school in the northern city of Hai Phong will open a class teaching Korean from the 2021-2022 school year.

While a variety of careers are open to maths majors as mathematics is involved in most sectors related to science and technology, students should prepare to adapt to their future jobs, experts have said.

The organisation of the 2021 national high school graduation exams will remain basically the same as in 2020, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Training Scheme for Rural Workers has proved to be successful as thousands of disabled people have been given training and consultancy to find jobs to support themselves.