Education

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) launched the project “We are able” in Hanoi on April 25, with the aim to expand access to education for ethnic minority children.

A Vietnam-Cuba friendship school has just been inaugurated in the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba.

More than 886,000 high school students nationwide have registered to attend the national high school graduation examination 2019, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET).

Delegates at a seminar in Hanoi on April 21 discussed the need to connect higher education institutions with businesses in training high-quality agricultural workforce.

Dozens of university students have dropped out after investigations showed that they gained their places by cheating.

A training course for United Nations logistics officers, co-organised by Vietnam and Canada, opened in Hanoi on April 16.

A male teacher at a secondary school in Hanoi has been suspended for being accused of sexually abusing seven boy students.

Many officials have been found to have involved in adjusting the results of the high school graduation exams in Son La, Hoa Binh and Ha Giang provinces.

Vietnamese labourers will have opportunities to receive free vocational training in Germany under a programme to look for skilled workers in the Southeast Asian country launched by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for South Thüringen (IHK Südthüringen).

An inaugural ceremony for the “Maker Innovation Space” (MIS) in the Can Tho University was held in the Mekong Delta city of the same name on April 5.

A teacher in Hung Yen Province has been sacked after punishing a 6th grader by demanding he eat 20 bags of jelly as a punishment.

Ton Duc Thang University in HCM City has been listed in top 101-200 of The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019.

Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition 2019 (HOMC) opened in the capital of Vietnam on April 3, drawing the participation of more than 600 Vietnamese and foreign students.

A training course themed “Becoming a Playworker” aiming to raise public awareness of importance of play for children’s development was held in Hanoi on April 2 as part of activities in the Play Campaign 2019.

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.