Education

Over 350 leaders, policymakers, experts and educators from more than 100 countries attended the UNESCO Forum on Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education which opened in Hanoi on July 2.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and four Japanese agencies on July 1 signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on sending specific skilled workers of Vietnam to work in Japan.

Twenty Vietnamese students have won the first New Zealand Government scholarships offered exclusively to the country’s secondary schools.

Private high schools in HCM City are offering discounts and extra-curricular activities to attract the nearly 13,000 students who could not get admission to public high schools.

The UNESCO Forum for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education is expected to welcome between 300 and 350 delegates from across the world with the event running in Hanoi on July 2-3.

The national high school graduation exams saw more mature students participating.

The Vietnam-US Friendship Association granted 100 scholarships to underprivileged students in Ho Chi Minh City on June 26 ahead of the 243rd Independence Day of the United States.

Nearly 900,000 students nationwide on Tuesday began the 2019 national high school exam.

George School of the US has been honoured in Hanoi with a certificate of merit of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations.

The police in Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi, has discovered and seized many mini earbuds and cameras used for cheating in exams.

Two Vietnamese universities have been listed in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2020.

The new general education programme issued by the Ministry of Education and Training at the end of last year will be applied for the 2020-21 school year.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan received Senior Vice President of the US-ASEAN Business Council Michael Michalak to discuss ways to bolster cooperation in improving local human resources quality.

A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 15 to mark the 20th anniversary of a fund that provides scholarships to school children of ethnic minority groups, with the participation of Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong

Hanoi is planning to build more swimming pools in order to teach swimming to children.

More than VND38 billion has been raised to support 60 ethnic minority students and students living in border areas and islands, as a result of an agreement signed between enterprises and the Vu A Dinh scholarship fund in Ho

A total of 300 Vietnamese and American scholars are attending in the Vietnam-USA Joint Mathematical Meeting opened in Quy Nhon city, the central province of Binh Dinh, on June 10.

Primary teachers have admitted fixing the results of pupils following parents' wishes so that the children have better secondary school opportunities.

Vietnam and Italy have signed an action programme on educational co-operation for the 2019-2022 period and considered teaching Italian at a local public school.