Education

The Ministry of Education and Training presented Orders of Merit and Certificates of Merit to the editor-in-chief and journalists at Dantri/Dtinews Online Newspaper for their outstanding contributions to the education sector.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested the construction of the Vietnamese-German University (VGU)’s new campus in the southern province of Binh Duong be accelerated.

500 Vallet scholarships worth VND25 billion (USD1.1 million) in total have just been granted to outstanding students from 58 high schools and six SOS Villages in the north.

Vietnam Airlines opened the first flight simulator complex in Vietnam on August 21, marking a milestone in its investment strategy for pilot training.

More than 1 million students from primary to high schools in Ho Chi Minh City officially entered the new school year on August 20.

The Ministry of Finance have proposed closing state universities which operate ineffectively to reduce the burden on the state budget during a meeting about the education sector in 2018.

Many public schools in HCM City and Hanoi have had to stop providing lunch and allowing pupils to sleep while doubling the number of pupils per class.

A group of four Vietnamese students brought home a bronze medal for their impressive robotic design at the “2018 FIRST Global Challenge” international robotics competition in Mexico from August 15-18.

Teacher Luc Thi Ly has to walk every day along a rough and dangerous track to her school in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang.

The government has approved tuition fee exemption for students at state-owned secondary schools and children aged five at nursery schools.

Parents are rushing to send their children to extra classes to practise writing and maths before they start Grade 1.

Many new graduates find their dreams of working in their field of study are more akin to a nightmare.

The Cargill Cares Council in Vietnam presented its 88th school facility to authorities and residents in the mountainous hamlet of Ho Le in Huc commune, Huong Hoa district in the central province of Quang Tri on August 13.

The Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union along with the Vietnam Youth Federation and Vietnam National Union of Students in HCM City held a ceremony on August 12 to mark the 25 years of summer youth voluntary campaigns (1994-2018).

Kazuyuki Nakane, visiting Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs, said the country will support Can Tho University to upgrade itself via its two existing projects that aim to turn the facility into an international university by 2020.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has assigned Can Tho University (CTU) the task of being named among the top universities in Asia by 2020, or by 2025 at the latest, and among the top 1,000 globally.

Record numbers of Vietnamese students are now choosing New Zealand as their international education destination of choice, according to Education New Zealand (ENZ). This is the result of the country’s serious effort to provide the best experience for international

Nobel laureate, Professor Jerome Isaac Friedman, has expressed his wish that young Vietnamese people would use modern accelerators to uncover the mystery of quarks, as well as the smallest components of the universe, over the next three decades.

Schools in Ho Chi Minh City are facing difficulties in recruiting English teachers as the 2018-2019 school year approaches.