Education

Classes have been organised to eradicate adult illiteracy for people of Van Kieu ethnic minority group in Quang Tri Province.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi to honour 125 outstanding teachers at the Hanoi Teachers-Devotion and Innovation Award.

Vietnam has continued slipping in the EF English Proficiency Index (EPI) for the four consecutive years.

Around eight million primary pupils will be taught about wild animal protection at schools in 2019-2020 school year.

Representatives from ASEAN higher educational institutions gathered at a forum that opened in Hanoi on November 7 to discuss education quality assurance.

The Ministry of Education and Training and the Francophone University of Association (AUF) signed a framework agreement on education cooperation in Hanoi on November 5.

The Asia Development Foundation (ADF) and COBI Group (COBI) have just announced a scholarship fund for the promotion of GloNaCal talent in the Korean International School (KIS) of Ho Chi Minh City.

Many high schools in HCM City have begun to conduct tests to match their students’ aptitudes with future careers, take them to universities or bring university staff to talk them about careers.

High schools are expected to face a shortage of music and art teachers when the new education programme begins in the 2029-21 academic year.

Going to a vocational school was long deemed an unthinkable idea for many Vietnamese parents that wanted their kids to go to university, but now, young adults are standing up to defy the old-fashioned notion.

Vietnamese students have won four gold medals at an international science competition held in Bogor, Indonesia, according to the Hanoi Department of Education and Training.

For the first time ever, two Vietnamese higher education institutions, Vietnam National University (VNU) - Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City branches, have been named in the 2020 Best Global Universities Rankings released recently by the US News &

A seminar was held in Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa, on October 25 to look into shortcomings at tertiary education establishments and ways to address them amid the urgent demand for better quality in higher education.

HCM City has planned to spend around VND3.8 billion (USD165,217) to install surveillance cameras at local childcare facilities.

A teacher in HCM City was sacked after it was found out that she had been hitting pupils at school.

Ho Chi Minh City-based Nguyen Tat Thanh University has been rated as a four-star educational institution by the UK rating system, QS Stars.

Hai Phong is planning to provide free education to all pupils from preschool to high school level including further education.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology has been listed among the world's top 400 strongest universities for engineering and technology.

The new school year is already over a month old, but many schools are suffering teacher shortages.