Education

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.

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has presented the Friendship Order to History Professor Odon Vallet from the world-renowned Sorbonne University in France.

The International Centre of Research and Postgraduate Training in Mathematics and the International Centre of Physics have just been recognized as two category centres under the auspices of UNESCO following the official signing ceremony led by UNESCO Director-General Irina

Khanh Hoa Province Department of Education and Training has ordered iSchool Nha Trang to stop recruiting primary pupils without the licence.

A new general education programme aims to overhaul curriculum at the country’s schools, but local educators say they need more time to roll out the changes.

The number of Vietnamese pupils who choose to study abroad after their high school graduation exams has been on the rise.

It is crucial to remove any rigid regulations that are no longer effective and suitable with the current situation, in order to innovate education and training, particularly in state management.

The Association of Vietnamese Students in the US held a cultural programme called “Vong tay nuoc My” in New York from August 18 – 20.

Despite the order to cut staff, state schools still face teacher redundancy problems as decisions are made by the departments of internal affairs instead of the education sector.

The Hotel and Tourism Management Institute Switzerland (HTMi) will send teachers and transfer education programmes to the Da Nang-based Dong A University as part of their recent cooperation deal.

Vietnamese students finished third with two silver and seven bronze medals in the final of the World Mathematics Olympiad (WMO) held in Tianjin, China from August 11-12.

Many universities are facing a shortage of hundreds of students this academic year.

Hanoi resident Nguyễn Phùng Hưng didn’t get into his first choice university, Hanoi Medical University, despite a high score of 29.25 points in the national high school exam. The number of top scorers was so high, that admissions officials

Vietnam won one gold and two bronze medals at the 29th International Olympiad in Informatics recently held in Iran.

The Ministry of Education and Training has approved a new general education programme, focused on reducing the number of subjects and periods.