Education

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Fifty-two Vietnamese people have won Australia Awards Scholarships and will soon leave the country to undertake postgraduate studies at the Australian university of their choice.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) is willing to cooperate with Vietnam and particularly Ho Chi Minh City to increase education quality and lecturers’ capacity at all educational stages.

Monkey Junior, the English learning app which won first prize at the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2016, has just received Google start-up financial support funding of USD100,000.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan hosted a reception in Canberra on November 29 for Australian students joining the New Colombo Plan (NCP) programme in Vietnam.

In Vietnam, getting into a university has been described as a national obsession and getting admission seen as a cut-throat competition. However, despite getting through such a tough initiation, more students are failing to stay in college until graduation,

The Ministry of Education and Training has proposed to exempt tuition fees at public schools for both primary and secondary pupils.

The Ministry of Education and Training organised a launch ceremony in response to the global initiative to end physical violence against children at home and at school in the central city of Da Nang.

Vietnam won 12 medals at the 14th International Mathematics and Science Olympiad 2017 (IMSO 2017), including one gold medal for science.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to borrow approximately US$300 million in ODA loans, from international financial institutions, in order to invest in developing three hi-quality university urban areas in three regions across the country.

Tri Le 4 Primary School in the central province of Nghe An Province has an entire male teaching staff.