Education

A Vietnam-Japan student exchange programme will take place in the Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki from July 9-20, with four teachers and 26 high school students in Ho Chi Minh City taking part.

Six Vietnamese students won five silver and one bronze medals at the 2017 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO), an online programming competition hosted by Australia on May 13, the Ministry of Education and Training announced.

PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a plan to allow students with financial difficulties to borrow a maximum of VNĐ1.5 million (US$65.8) per month to help students pay for their tuition and subsistence allowance since tuition and service and

Students at Nguyễn Đình Chiểu School in HCM City now have something to look forward to when they get up every day to go to class.

Four member universities of Vietnam National University Hồ Chí Minh City (VNUHCM) have received accreditation certification for educational quality from the Ministry of Education and Training.

Four Vietnamese pupils won gold medals at the 2017 Asia Pacific Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools, placing the country in the third after Singapore and Taiwan.

Hanoi faces a shortage of high school teachers that can teach in English, requiring universities to train more students adept at the language to meet demand.

Some schools in the central province of Quang Binh have set up the Vietnamese map model with the Paracel and Spratly islands in their campus, aiming to help their pupils’ awareness of the national sovereignty.

Experts said that regulations on the establishment of private universities should be stricter.

Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, H.E. Craig Chittick, talks about the growth of cooperation between Vietnam and Australia in the field of education.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has said schools in regions with favourable conditions will be given more autonomy.

The public has expressed anger and worry after the head of Mai Dong Primary School in Hanoi confirmed that a young man had broken into the school and tried to harass two girls.

Hanoi People's Council has pointed out the lack of classrooms and fund for equipment after the inspection at several schools in the city for education development and planning to 2020.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged the Vietnam-Japan University to become an international standard research university, focusing on training highly-qualified human resources for society.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved US$155 million in financing to strengthen the research, teaching, and institutional capacity of three autonomous universities and improve the management of Vietnam’s higher education system.

Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem has graduated from Webster University in the US with two bachelor degrees of Science, Finance and Arts, Management.

Hanoian parents face an annual headache of registering their children at public schools, and the school year 2017-18 is no different, with the number of public schools limited but the number of children at school age rocketing in the city.

Leaders of Vietnam’s National Economics University (NEU) and more than 60 students in the Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA), sixth course, met on May 11 with leaders of Taiwan’s Changhua University of Education (NCUE) and discussed future cooperation

Eight groups of students from eight universities nationwide will gather for the final battle of the Digital Race, an annual technology contest organised by FPT, taking place this Wednesday at Cau Giay Stadium in Hanoi.