Education

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.

The Australian Embassy has recently held a ceremony to welcome home more than 60 Australia Awards alumni who have just returned to Vietnam upon completing their postgraduate studies in Australia.

The Vietnamese language course held in Yekaterinburg city aims to help children of the Vietnamese community to master Vietnamese through a textbook designed specifically for overseas Vietnamese.

The Vietnam National University, HCM City and Vietnam National University, Hanoi have been ranked in the groups 701-1,000 in the QS World University Rankings 2019.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam further clarified pressing issues in the educational sector during the question and answer session for Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha on June 6.

Many students visit the Temple of Literature in Hanoi to seek luck for their high school entrance exam.

Three Vietnamese students will compete in the 2018 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in the US.

A pilot project of Germany on training Vietnamese nurses has proved effective, as heard a seminar reviewing the project recently held by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin.

A pupil in HCM City has been offered various scholarships by 11 universities which are ranked by US News and World Report as among the 100 best colleges and universities in the US.

With six gold medals, the Vietnamese team ranked second behind the host Singapore at the 2018 Asia Pacific Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools (APMOPS 2018), which was held in Singapore from May 24-27.

Mr. Thang Tran, President of the Institute for Vietnamese Culture & Education (IVCE), tells VET about the potential of Vietnam's education sector for foreign investment and the State policies needed in support.

Twenty eight students in Hanoi were honoured as being ‘Ambassadors of Reading Culture’ during the 2017-2018 school year at an awards ceremony for a writing and presentation contest held on Hanoi Book street on May 26.

The Kiên Giang University in Vietnam’s southern province of Kiên Giang and Cambodia’s Chea Sim Kamchaymear University inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on co-operation in the Cambodian capital city of Phnom Penh on May 24.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), on Tuesday, scrapped a scheme to renew the national high school examination from 2018 to 2020.

The third International Children Festival VTV2018, taking place at Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa from May 29 to June 3, will attract the participation of eight countries.

Vietnamese students won one third prize and one consolation prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) 2018 which was held in Pennsylvania, the US, from May 13-18.