Education

A hammer-wielding man wounded 20 children in an attack at an elementary school in Beijing Tuesday with three suffering serious injuries, local authorities said.

Talky Bird, a free app using Artificial Intelligence (AI) recognition technology to help those learning the Japanese language, has been launched on the App Store.

The German parliament has approved the “Bildungscampus Deutscheland” (German education campus) project in Ho Chi Minh City.

While universities in large cities have been developing well, schools in provinces have not been able to enroll enough students.

The Ministry of Education and Training has unveiled a new general educational curriculum which aims to reduce pressure on students and allow them to choose subjects they enjoy.

Below is a selection of five highlights of Vietnamese education in 2018.

Two Vietnamese universities were named in the list of the world’s 300 leading global universities on sustainable development.

Schools in southern China are using chip-powered "smart" school uniforms to track their students in a bid to tackle truancy and boost attendance, according to state media.

A teacher in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a school girl.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam has instructed the education sector to strictly deal with a case in which the headmaster of an ethnic minority boarding school in Phu Tho Province was accused of molesting many boy students.

It is necessary to equip young people with a mindset characterised by innovation and enterprise, and empower them with the future skills needed for them to succeed, an expert told an international conference that opened in HCM City on Tuesday.

Representatives of Republic of Korea (RoK) companies operating in Vietnam granted 90 scholarships worth a total VND900 million (US$38,700) to 90 needy Vietnamese students who have recorded outstanding academic results at a programme held in Hanoi.

Each young Vietnamese should be ambitious and fearless to follow start-up dreams and bring prosperity to the country, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

Vietnam is facing a shortage of teachers for disabled children.

Police in the northern province of Phu Tho have launched an investigation into a local high school headmaster who has been accused of sexually abusing many boy students.

A workshop took place in Hanoi on December 13 to seek ways to expand learning clubs promoting childcare in the first 1,000 days which, according to the UNICEF, is important to children’s future health and development.

Vietnamese contestants bagged four gold medals at the 15th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) held in Botswana from December 2-10.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a USD78 million financing package to help Vietnam’s labor force meet market demands by improving the quality of national technical and vocational education and training institutions.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently released Decision 1677/QD-TTg to ratify the Project on early childhood education development in the 2018-2025 period.