Education

The Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) programme for the academic year 2020-2024, provided by the Japanese Government through non-refundable aid, has been officially launched.

The national startup day for students 2020 kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on November 23.

Cities and provinces in the south have achieved positive results in increasing the rate of trained workers in rural areas and creating jobs for them, after nearly 10 years of implementing the government's vocational training project for rural workers.

Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh honoured 99 outstanding young teachers and lecturers from 43 provinces and cities on the 38th Vietnamese Teachers' Day.

Vietnam remains the sixth leading country of origin for all international higher education students in the United States, according to a recent report by the Institute of International Education’s.

An elderly teacher is organising free classes for disadvantaged people in Binh Duong Province.

Vietnamese proficiency in using English has continued to drop this year, being listed among countries in the low-proficiency category.

More than 800 students in Quang Nam Province's Phuoc Son District have been unable to return to school 20 days after the recent floods as their school facilities were badly damaged.

A total of 63 outstanding ethnic minority teachers were honoured within a programme held in Hanoi on November 17.

According to the General Statistics Office, foreign investment as of October 20 was US$23.48 billion, equivalent to less than 81 per cent of the figure for the same period last year.

Over the past five years, sport competitions for students in HCM City have increased significantly but the conditions of sport facilities at schools have not met demand.

Hundreds of parents have sent letters to local authorities in Ho Chi Minh City to complain about the poor-quality school meals served to their children at Tran Thi Buoi Primary School.

Vietnam’s Ha Anh Phuong has been listed in the top ten of the 2020 Global Teacher Prize for her great contributions to education in remote areas.

Thirty-nine students with disabilities will develop the skills needed to take on digital employment opportunities to help them live independently, support their families and contribute to the digital economy.

The Ministry of Education and Training has called on schools to colleges and universities to consider reducing and exempting tuition fees for students from flood-hit areas.

Bangladesh opened its first Islamic school for transgender Muslims on Friday with clerics calling it a first step towards integrating the discriminated minority into society.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has sent more assistance to central provinces which have been hit hard by the recent record floods and storms.

Dozens of schools in the central province of Nghe An remain inundated after being affected by Storm Molave.

Pawsitive of the University of Engineering and Technology under the Vietnam National University, Hanoi excellently surpassed rivals to gain the first place at the ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security 2020’s qualifier on October 31.