Education

Many international students have decided to stay in Vietnam during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Many provincial universities and colleges are planning to merge with large universities to improve their enrolment rates and quality standards.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has emphasised that the education sector must have a suitable plan for the national high school exams.

The curriculum will be streamlined in the second semester of the 2019-20 school year but will ensure students received fundamental knowledge.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia has kept a close watch on developments of COVID-19 and asked Vietnamese students to stay vigilant against the disease, an official has said.

The Vietnamese Students' Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK) (VSAK) has swiftly taken measures to support students amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 epidemic in the country.

The Ministry of Education and Training on March 13 sent an urgent official dispatch to cities and provinces across the country on the newly-adjusted 2019 - 2020 academic year calendar.

Many cities and provinces in Vietnam have continued to keep local schools closed amid the rise in Covid-19 cases.

The Hanoi National University and the Hanoi University of Science and Technology have found a place in the World University Rankings by Subject 2020 compiled by British education company Quacquarelli Symonds.

Hanoi has developed plans to open vocational training classes in traditional handicraft villages for 1,650 rural labourers this year.

Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University have taken various measures to ensure safety for students after reopening on Monday.

University students in Hanoi have been asked to study online amid rising new cases have been reported in the capital.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training is planning to broadcast lessons and lectures via television, scheduled to begin airing on March 9.

Nguyễn Văn Cử, Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Capacity Development for People with Disabilities (HCM City) used to cry a lot because of discrimination.

Hanoi has decided to continue let students remain off to avoid the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.

Around 150 private educational facilities in Vietnam have jointly sent a petition to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to call for the government's support to help ease their difficulties because of Covid-19.

As many as 60 out of 63 provinces and cities in Vietnam have decided to further delay reopening of kindergartens, primary and junior secondary schools until March 17.

Many schools have reopened starting from March 2 after a three-week shutdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

A teacher has spent up to 27 years working at schools in mountainous areas of the northern central province of Thanh Hoa.