Education

Nearly 867,000 12th graders in Vietnam began graduation exams on August 9 in the context of the latest coronavirus outbreak spreading across three regions of the country.

Localities are carrying out measures to ensure a safe national high school graduation exam, which is scheduled for August 8-10 across the country.

Many students have visited the Temple of Literature in Hanoi to pray for luck and good results in the coming high school graduation exams.

Đà Nẵng City and Quảng Nam Province’s administration yesterday asked the Ministry of Education to cancel the upcoming 2020 national high school exam due to the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020 high school graduation examination will be held as the set plan in all provinces and cities nationwide, including Da Nang, despite the detection of new COVID-19 community infections.

Vietnam has won a gold, a silver and two bronze medals at the European Physics Olympiad 2020 which was held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

At least 40 million children worldwide have missed out on early childhood education in their critical pre-school year as COVID-19 shuttered childcare and early education facilities, according to a new research brief published today by UNICEF.

Over 30 universities from Vietnam and other countries will participate in an educational conference which will be held in the Mekong Delta Province of Dong Thap on July 25.

An agreement on enhancing cooperation in the field of vocational education and training and skills development between Vietnam and New Zealand was signed in Hanoi on July 20.

Ton Duc Thang University in HCM City has been named in the world’s top 400 and 500 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities this year.

Private schools complain that they may not be able to stay in business as the Ministry of Education mulls over a regulation that lets students take 3-month summer holiday.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused an "unprecedented education emergency" with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned Monday.

Universities in Vietnam should start preparing different scenarios to adapt if the country experiences new COVID-19 incidences in the community, said Dr Nguyễn Ngọc Điện, rector of Hoa Sen University.

An official in Ho Chi Minh City said it was not fair if the Vietnam Australia International School did not allow students to continue attending because of conflicts with their parents.

The Ministry of Education and Training has carried out some measures to help Vietnamese students who are affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in the US.

HCM City plans to set up a University of Health Sciences which will be developed from the HCM City National University’s Faculty of Health.

21 lecturers and specialists involved in quality assurance from vocational education and training schools across Vietnam have benefited from the “Informal Learning Opportunity in Vocational Education and Training Quality Assurance” course run by Queensland University of Technology.

640,000 students who have just taken high school graduation exams have sent applications to universities nationwide this year according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Many parents have been shocked after the Vietnam Australia International School (VAS) refused to admit their children for the new school-year due to their conflicts with the school.