Education

Two officials of the southern province of Soc Trang’s Education and Training Department and 30 headmasters of local schools were revealed to have gone on a private holiday using the state budget.

A new regulation concerning recruitment quotas for public tertiary education institutions in Vietnam has been at the centre of debate among educators and lawmakers.

A new regulation concerning recruitment quotas for public tertiary education institutions in Vietnam has been at the centre of debate among educators and lawmakers.

Hundreds of teachers in Hanoi's Soc Son District have complained that they may lose their jobs as they will be tested to keep their existing posts.

The Vietnam-Australia Tourism and Hospitality Education and Training Showcase 2019 will offer a platform for Australian and Vietnamese institutions and business organisations to exchange expertise and build innovative partnerships.

Real estate developer FLC Group has submitted to the Ministry of Education and Training its proposal to build an international university of technology-tourism-aviation in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh.

The World Bank (WB) has been carrying out a project on improving the quality of tertiary education at four universities in Vietnam, including the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), since 2018 to increase their autonomy.

Vietnam’s authorities said they are closely following Japan’s investigation into 700 foreign students absent without leave from a Tokyo university that was attended by many Vietnamese.

A school in the remote area of Thanh Hoa Province is still seeing a high number of drop-outs and teenage mothers among students from low-income families.

More than 50 of New Zealand’s education institutions will be travelling to Vietnam to showcase their country’s world-class learning environment at the Education New Zealand Fairs in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi on March 23 and 24, respectively.

More than 24,000 students from 870 elementary and secondary schools of 41 cities and provinces nationwide on March 17 sit the 2019 International Kangaroo Math Contest (IKMC).

Opportunities along with challenges to online education in the context of the fourth industrial revolution were the main theme of the International Conference on Online Education 2019 (ICOE 2019) held in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Ministry of Education and Training said that they would strictly deal with the officials and students who altered the results for 2018 high school graduation and university entrance exams.

Trần Quang Thu, deputy principal of Cửa Tùng High School, was quite surprised to see students eager to study in the school’s nursery garden.

About 60 local and international educational technology companies are showcasing their products and services at the Vietnam British Educational Suppliers Show (BESS Vietnam) that opened on Tuesday in HCM City.

Learning English through apps is not a new idea in Vietnam, but in 2018 Vietnam’s startup community saw the arrival of the ELSA app, or “English Language Speech Assistant”.

The Ministry of Education and Training will adjust English teaching following the failure of the 2008-2020 national Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages in the National Education System Project.

The Ministry of Education and Training’s new national professional standards for kindergarten teachers and principals will act as a base to rebuild training programmes at universities and colleges of education.

The Australian Human Rights Commission will help Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) integrate lessons on human rights into the public school curricula, per a memorandum of understanding inked between both sides in Sydney.