Education

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs will send students of local universities, colleges and vocational schools to the Japanese city of Yokohama for training in nursing skills.

The deputy director of education of Sơn La Province was involved in wrongdoing in the high school graduation test in which 12 students had their scores in literature illegally increased, an official told the press on Monday.

All four members of the Vietnamese team attending the 2018 International Biology Olympiad held in Iran won medals, including three golds and one silver, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has emphasised the acceleration of clarifying abnormal results of the national high school examination in the northern mountainous provinces Ha Giang, Son La and Lang Son.

The party chief of Ha Giang Province, Trieu Tai Vinh has claimed that he played no role in the adjusted marks for over 330 tests in the recent national high school exams conducted by local education officials.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered the Ministry of Public Security to open an investigation into the recent high school exam scandal in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

A significant increase in the number of students for the 2018-2019 academic year in HCM City is putting pressure on schools that lack a sufficient number of teachers and facilities, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.

There is a special class in Chao Pông Village, Ia Phang Commune in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, which all disadvantaged students from the local area can attend for free at any time of day.

Technical vocational education and training (TVET) institutes in HCM City plan to train students in green-growth fields that promote economic sustainability.

All six Vietnamese students brought home medals, including one gold, two silver and three bronze medals, at the 59th International Mathematics Olympiad in Romania, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Vietnamese students won 29 individual and 14 team prizes at the Bulgaria International Mathematics Competition 2018 (BIMC 2018) which took place in Burgas, Bulgaria last week.

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Battambang, Cambodia, inaugurated a floating school, on July 9, for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) students who live on Tonle Sap Lake in Koh Kek village, Kan Dieng district of Pursat province.

Vietnamese students annually spend USD3-4 billion to study abroad with the majority being self-financed, said Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha.

Enterprises have been reluctant to cooperate with universities on commercialisation of their inventions and products because of the lack of intellectual property (IP) protection, according to the Vietnam Invention Association.

A Japanese women's university said Tuesday it will admit transgender students who were born male but identify as female, a rare move in a country where LGBT rights lag behind other developed nations.

The ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2018 (ABU Robocon 2018) will be held on August 26 in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

High-school students across the country on June 24 finalised all procedures to get ready for the three-day national high school exam that will begin on June 25.

A new government decree stipulates that domestic and foreign teachers involved in integrated education programmes need to provide sufficient evidence of their qualifications.

New Decree 86 on foreign investment and co-operation in education states that investors need at least VND1trn (USD42.90m) in capital in order to set up a university in Vietnam.