Education

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.

Nguyen Trai Secondary School in Ba Dinh district recently received a rooftop solar power system partially financed by Bach Khoa Investment & Development of Solar Energy Corporation (SolarBK) and Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID).

Online teaching will be recognised as a formal method, in parallel with teaching in schools, following months of experimenting with the method as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, the education minister said.

Many parents in Hanoi and HCM City are spending a huge amount of money on cram schools for their children who are forced to study heavily at early ages to get in the best primary or secondary schools.

A teenager in the central province of Quang Ngai has just been invited by 21 universities in the US, the UK, Canada and Singapore.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training has asked local teachers to study and arrange time to take IELTS tests.

Two universities in Viet Nam are named in the world’s top 801-1000 by the QS World University Rankings 2021 – QS WUR 2021.

The 2020 national high school graduation exams will take place on August 9-10, as announced by the Ministry of Education and Training on June 5 at an online meeting with the localities chaired by Minister Phung Xuan Nha.

A biology teacher at the Phước Minh Secondary School in Tây Ninh Province, who was alleged to have sexually abused several male students, issued an apology and resigned on Wednesday.

Vietnam has seen three representatives among Asia's 500 best universities this year.

Around 100 parents in Ho Chi Minh City are preparing to sue a local school over online study fees.