Education

UK vocational education providers to seek partnership in Vietnam

Leading providers of technical and vocational training and education from the United Kingdom will visit HCM City and Hanoi from January 15-18 to set up and extend partnerships with local companies, schools, colleges, universities and government organisations.

ABU Robocon 2018 to be held in Ninh Binh province

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

National foreign language project fails to fulfill targets

English fluency targets set by a national project are too high and not backed by sufficient inputs, experts say.

HCMC vocational schools struggle to enroll students

Although hundreds of thousands of university graduates fail to secure jobs, students and their families still hope to attend university at any cost—leaving vocational schools struggling to attract enough students to operate.

HCM City to have its own textbooks in 2019

HCM City authorities will work with Vietnam Education Publishing House to draft textbooks that suit the city's socio-economic development and pupil abilities.

Ministry tells pedagogy schools to re-plan training

Minister of Education Phùng Xuân Nhạ, said that it was high time pedagogy schools stop the oversupplying of teachers in many provinces and cities.

Support centres set up at universities for students with disabilities

Support service centres for students with disabilities have been set up at the HCM City Pedagogy University and HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Hanoi to spot check private educational institutions

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training has held a meeting to evaluate its performance in 2017 and implementing tasks for 2018 for private educational institutions.

Vietnam’s Aerospace Engineering School established

The School of Aerospace Engineering under the Vietnam National University – Hanoi has just made its debut, aimed at training and providing high-level human resources for aerospace technology at the university and postgraduate levels for the nation.

Vietnam, US universities enhance cooperation

The Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City and the University of California Los Angeles have inked a memorandum of understanding in Washington DC towards promoting scientific research cooperation.

Australia supports vocational education and training in Vietnam

The Australian Government on Thursday launched the pilot Logistics Industry Reference Council to promote industry linkages with vocational education and training in partnership with the Government of Vietnam.

Work starts on Vietnamese-funded school in Laos

Work began on the construction of a high school, a gift from General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong, in Laos’ Bolykhamxay province on December 13.

Vietnam tally up 3 golds at Challenge for Future Mathematicians

The young Vietnamese team bagged three gold, 11 silver, and 24 bronze medals at the Challenge for Future Mathematicians held in Malaysia from December 8-11.

Scholarships granted to Quang Nam pupils

The Vietnam Association for Promoting Education, the management agency of Dantri/DTiNews, has presented scholarships worth a total of VND200 million (USD9,000) for pupils in the central province of Quang Nam.

International conference on English training held in Thai Nguyen

Managers, teachers and researchers involving in English training and representatives from the Ministry of Education and Training and the US Embassy in Vietnam gathered in Thai Nguyen city, the same name province, on December 7-8 to seek ways to

Abandoned Cambodian passenger jet to be used for training

The Vietnam Aviation Academy has proposed to the Ministry of Transport to use a Cambodian passenger jet abandoned at Noi Bai International Airport for a decade for its training activities.

HCM City hosts qualifier round of international IT contest

The 26th Vietnamese Information Technology (IT) Olympiad and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) for the Asian region opened in HCM City.

US Pacific Command finances kindergarten in Thua Thien-Hue

A kindergarten built with funding granted by the US Pacific Command was inaugurated on December 5 in Quang Dien district in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Two Vietnamese universities refuse to join quality accreditation

Two Vietnamese universities have refused to attend the Ministry of Education and Training’s education quality accreditation.

Vietnam National University continues to adopt CDIO

The Vietnam National University - Hồ Chí Minh City will continue to adopt conceiving-designing-implementing-operating (CDIO) as the framework for its member universities’ curriculum planning and outcome-based assessment until 2020.

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