Education

The authorities in HCM City have set up a number of rules for foreign English teachers including banning pupils from adopting English names.

More than 2,200 Vietnamese are studying in New Zealand, putting it among the Top three Southeast Asian countries in terms of student numbers, Education New Zealand revealed.

Ho Chi Minh City always creates good conditions for the Vietnam National University (VNU), Ho Chi Minh City and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to cooperate in post-graduate training and medicine research.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged accelerating land clearance for the construction of the Vietnam National University-Hanoi, which is at the core of a planned university town in Hoa Lac area, Hanoi’s suburban Thach That district.

Odon Vallet scholarships were awarded to 179 students from the Central Highlands and central coastal provinces on September 6 by Rencontre du Vietnam (Meet Vietnam).

Vietnam has approved a project that aims to make human rights an integral subject in education nationwide by 2025.

One pupil died, while two others were hospitalised in the central province of Nghe An after a suicide attempt caused by fears of being punished by their parents after stealing toys from another class.

An independent group of six researchers who are working in Vietnam and other countries have announced a list of 49 top local universities.

Though they both come from France, it was in Vietnam that they met for the first time, as they worked to develop vocational training in the country.

Around 20 container houses for ethnic minority pupils in a school of the central province of Quang Ngai have been upgraded for the new school year.

More Australian students will head to Vietnam in 2018 to study and undertake work placements under the Australian Government’s New Colombo Plan mobility program.

The new academic year officially began this morning, September 5.

In a sign of growing ties between Da Nang and Japan, this school year, a Japanese-led kindergarten will open its doors to children ages 1 to 6 in the central city.

No undergraduates enrolled in a university in Nam Định Province in the 2017 admission season, the same as last year, but the school is still operating thanks to its postgraduate programme.

The northern mountainous province of Dien Bien has received more than 4.3 billion VND (189,157 USD) sponsored by the Save the Children International (SCI) organisation to improve educational quality and equality for ethnic minority children.

Teachers in several northern mountainous provinces are facing difficulties encouraging their pupils to return to school after the summer holiday.

Tay Bac University and the Australian government’s Aus4Skills programme signed a memorandum of understanding, laying the foundation for a series of activities until 2020 at the university.

The Ministry of Education and Training has sent an official dispatch on implementing tuition fee exemptions for preschool education for 5-year-old children in areas of difficult socio-economic conditions, from January 1, 2018.

A group of university students from the southern province of Dong Nai have won the Asia-Pacific robot contest, known as Robocon, held in Tokyo, Japan.