Education

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.

The Bun Nua district High School, built from non-refundable aid provided by the Vietnamese Government, was inaugurated and handed over to Phongsaly District, Laos, at a ceremony held at Tay Trang International Border Gate in Dien Bien Province.

Japan has produced its first ninja studies graduate after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years honing his martial arts skills and absorbing the finer traditions of the feudal martial arts agents.

After seeing parents grieving their drowned children, a physical education teacher of the northern province of Thanh Hóa decided to build a swimming pool and teach students how to swim for free.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training and city schools have been training teachers, choosing textbooks, and preparing facilities to carry out a new nationwide training programme in the 2020-21 academic year required by the Ministry of Education

The Hanoi University of Science and Technology has been named among the world’s best ‘Golden Age’ universities for 2020, according to the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Two Vietnamese universities have won places among the QS Top 50 Under 50 2021, which ranks the world’s best universities which have been founded within the past 50 years.

The Vietnam team including three students from Lao Cai High School for the Gifted and a student from Hanoi Medical University won the gold medal at the International Invention and Innovation 2020.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam held a working session with the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) in Hanoi on June 17 to review preparations for the organisation of the 2020 national high school graduation exams.

Nearly 1,400 Lao students were welcomed back to school in Vietnam’s northern province of Son La on June 17.

The US Consulate General has announced that rumours about the US ceasing visa grant for Vietnamese students were not correct.