Education

South Korea falls into hush mode on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of students sit the high-stakes national university entrance exam, with the added tension of strict anti-coronavirus measures.

Vietnam ranks first among Southeast Asian countries in terms of primary school student learning outcomes under the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) programme.

The Rencontres du Vietnam is organising the 8th Vietnam Summer School of Science at the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education in the central province of Binh Dinh.

Authorities of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have quarantined 51 students from Laos who came to study in the province.

A meeting on bullying at school and online in ASEAN was held on November 26 by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), the ASEAN Secretariat, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Eleven Vietnamese universities have been named among Asia’s best 634 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in 2021.

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.