Education

Nguyen Le Hoai Anh, a 12th grader from Lao Cai provincial High School for Gifted Students, was awarded by the provincial People’s Committee, on April 17, for winning a full scholarship from Stanford University worth USD 286,000.

Only 30% of graduates are able to do their work sufficiently well for their employers, said Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong from the ICT Department of Navigos Search, provider of executive search and management consultancy services in Vietnam.

Schools and police alike in Hanoi have been unable to keep up the ban to prevent pupils from using motorbikes to go to schools.

Weak English skills are a major problem for university students, with many of them unable to graduate despite good results in their majors.

The Ministry of Education and Training has just held the International Higher Education Day in Vietnam 2017 in HCM City, gathering 58 education institutions worldwide.

In a cloud of red dust, a car stops in front of the emergency ward of the Đà Nẵng Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital.

Many parents in HCM City who want to admit their children to public high schools are worried that they won't be able to compete.

Some 70 percent of graduates from vocational colleges or schools found jobs with starting salaries from 3.6 million to 7 million VND in 2016.

Da Nang University, the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie have inked a MoU in various fields including scientific research and education and student exchange.

The overall unemployment rate in Vietnam fell in the last months of 2016 but the graduate unemployment rate actually increased.

Ho Chi Minh City has been providing all possible support for the Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) project in the city, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong assured Chairman of the Trust for University Innovation in Vietnam

Vietnam will host the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Conference on Innovative Education and Human Resource Building this week in Huế City, said Trần Ngọc An, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Multilateral Economic Deparment.

Life is hard in the borderland, but teachers in the mountainous province of Lai Châu are doing their best to bring young children to school so that they can learn how to read and write.

Vietnam is keen to develop education cooperation with the US and, particularly, Harvard University.

President of Harvard University, Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, has paid a visit to Fulbright University Vietnam on March 23.

Japan’s Linux Professional Institute (JPI) Evolable Asia company and Đà Nẵng’s Đông Á College have established an information technology (IT) human resource training programme.

The 2017 Robot Robotacon WRO, known as the Robot Talent Contest, on Tuesday opened for registration.

The Vietnam-Finland Innovation Partnership Programme phase 2 will sponsor Vietnamese universities to develop their curriculum on innovation and startup as a part of efforts to improve the startup ecosystem in the country.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has sent a letter to a teacher in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai for his efforts to persuade many local students back to their class.