Education

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.

The Ministry of Education and Training has just held an international workshop to improve English teaching quality in Vietnam.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc called upon Vietnamese students to have political firmness; pursue revolutionary ideology; and stay away from materialistic lifestyle.

All pupils and students in the central city of Danang have been told to stay at home today, December 10, due to serious flooding caused by torrential rains over the recent days.

HCM City’s authorities are planning to install 315 cameras at local kindergartens at the cost of VND3.2bn (USD137,000) to prevent child abuse.

Vietnamese students from 15 universities in Moscow, Russia, gathered at the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute (MISI) on December 6 to introduce and promote Vietnamese culture to international friends.