Education

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and Google on August 15 officially established strategic partnership on expanding Google's Digital 4.0 Program, which aims to train digital skills for 500,000 workers working for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within three years.

The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and representatives from Nagano Prefecture in Japan signed an MoU on cooperation in human resources development on August 14.

A training course for 80 overseas Vietnamese teachers from ten countries and territories worldwide opened in Hanoi on August 12, aiming to improve their teaching skills of the Vietnamese language.

Vietnam won a gold, three silver and three bronze medals as well as an honourable mention at the 13th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), which took place in Hungary from August 2 – 10.

It is forecast that by 2030, between 4.5 and 6 million workers will need agricultural training.

The Vietnamese team has reached the top five of the 2019 international math competition in South Africa picking up with two champion cups, four gold medals and five silver medals.

Hanoi police have decided to prosecute the case in which a first-grader at an international school in Hanoi was left to die on a school bus.

One of the important tasks for the education sector in the upcoming 2019-2020 school year is to create fundamental changes in the education of ethics and life skills for students, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has stated.

Tran Hoang Anh, a student of the Hanoi-based Foreign Trade University, has brought home the solitary bronze medal for Vietnam in the Microsoft Excel 2013 category at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship 2019 (MOSWC) in the United States.

All of four Vietnamese students who joined the International Chemistry Olympiads 2019 won two medals, with the team finishing in the top five with the highest mark in the contest.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has encouraged schools not to release balloons on their new academic year events.

Two innovations of Vietnamese students won gold medals at the World Invention Creativity Olympic (WICO) 2019 in the Republic of Korea.

Hanoi University (HANU) and Switzerland’s International Management Institute (IMI) on July 26 introduced a hospitality management training course to mid and high-level managers for Vietnamese travel agencies and hotels.

A sixth grader of a secondary school in Hanoi has sent her email to more than 40 local schools to call for the end of balloon releases at opening ceremonies of the new school year.

Vietnam's experience in building its national education strategy has been highly acknowledged and valued by the international media during the recently-concluded 50th Conference of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed a national foreign languages training programme for civil servants.

On July 24, in Hanoi, The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam, JICA Vietnam Office in collaboration with the Department of International Cooperation under Ministry of Education and Training organised a meeting with 63 outstanding young officials, who will participate

Hanoi University of Science and Technology has received an American student who enrolled for its newly-established Data Science and AI Department.

The most important thing in education is to build a happy studying environment where technology supports students and lifelong learning spirit is nurtured, stated Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha on July 23.