Education

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.

A campaign entitled “Act for Children” was launched in Hanoi on June 1, the International Children’s Day, with the goal of stopping school violence and child abuse through raising awareness of families, schools and the community.

Three 11th graders and four 12th graders seized silver medals at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad 2019, which was held online on May 18.

Fake university diplomas are being offered for sale in many places in Hanoi and HCM City.

The Ministry of Education and Training has assured that there will be enough stocks of textbooks based on new curriculums for all school grades starting in the 2020-21 academic year.

A large medical school in Bac Kan Province is facing closure after failing to attract students.

A Vietnamese delegation learned about Australia’s experience in university governance and self-autonomy during their recent visit, as part of the Aus4Skills programme funded by the Australian government for the 2016-2020 period.

Developing global citizens has increasingly become a focus at tertiary, secondary and even primary levels of education, Prof Richmond Stroupe of Soka University in Japan said at an international TESOL conference in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese parents and students have complained about the organisation of the Vietnam Asian Science and Mathematics Olympiad held in Hanoi.

As many as 30 per cent of high-school students have decided not to apply for colleges this year according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Eight officials in Son La Province will be prosecuted for abusing their positions to adjust high school graduation and university entrance exam scores last year.