Education

The authorities in HCM City said that it was not safe to reopen schools for nearly two million pupils while the Covid-19 outbreak hasn't ended.

The 2019-2020 school year will be extended to the end of June, a month later than previous years after delays children faced going back to class at the beginning of the year due to fears of the acute respiratory

Students in Hanoi have been allowed to stay at home until the end of February due to continued fears over the coronavirus.

HCM City authorities have proposed further temporary school closures until the end of March for fear of coronavirus.

Three Vietnamese universities have been listed among Emerging Economies University Rankings 2020, which were announced by the Times Higher Education magazine, for the first time.

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam Park Noh-wan on February 18 expressed their wish to further enhance their countries’ cooperation in vocational education.

Many universities in HCM City offer programmes in English to enable their students to communicate in that language when they work elsewhere in the ASEAN Economic Community, within which the bloc’s nationals can freely migrate.

Ton Duc Thang University, which announced 2,130 scientific research projects, is among the top 10 higher education institutions in Southeast Asia in terms of the number of works published on ISI journal, according to data of the Web of

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has just issued a Decision to assign five higher education institutions to train, evaluate and grant certificates on Vietnamese language to foreigners.

The Ministry of Education and Training has proposed temporarily closed schools until the end of February as part of coronavirus prevention measures.

Local officials in HCM City and Hanoi announced yesterday that schools would remain shut for at least another week due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19.

As many as 30 cities and provinces nationwide have reported to the Ministry of Education and Training on their decision to allow students back to school from February 17, after a two-week break due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The Vinh Phuc Provincial Department of Education and Training has proposed to close schools until February 23 as 38 local students have been monitored for Coronavirus infection.

The Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health and Department of Education and Training have launched a pilot smart health operation centre and a pilot smart education operation centre in the city.

Schools in HCM City will reopen from February 17 after two weeks of closing to prevent the spreading of Coronavirus.

Teachers and students of a high school in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have produced hand wash to help prevent the coronavirus spread.

More than 800 foreign students in Nghe An have left the country to avoid the Coronavirus outbreak.

Students in HCM City have been permitted to stay at home for one more week amid the rapid spread of coronavirus.

Localities have been asked to consider closing schools for one or two more weeks if coronavirus continues spreading, said Government Office Chairman and Minister Mai Tien Dung.