Education

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has drafted a decree on foreign investment into the education sector, aiming to offer more favourable conditions for foreign investors.

The low quality of university education is blamed on curricula which focuses on theoretical knowledge and does not provide enough practicum hours.

The agriculture and rural development ministry has approved a plan to provide vocational training to 1.4 million rural labourers over the next four years.

Statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training shows that English is still the most popular foreign language at local schools, while only 1% pupils choose to study other languages.

Vietnam ranks 19th among 20 countries which have students gaining the best achievements in the latest OECD rankings.

Microsoft and Vietnet Information Technology and Communication Center (Vietnet-ICT) have announced a “Minecraft” coding tutorial for students and educators, created especially for the third-annual Hour of Code, a campaign to broaden global participation in computer science.

A workshop for the Danish-Vietnamese Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Project began on January 17, promising new opportunities for schools, companies, and workers.

The University of Science at the Vietnam National University–Hanoi (VNU University of Science) has become the first in Vietnam to undergo quality verification based on the ASEAN University Network–Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) standard.

While some analysts are pessimistic about the prediction that 200,000 university graduates will remain jobless in 2017, others believe that graduates could provide a valuable resource for startups.

Tôn Đức Thắng University has been ranked 156th out of 516 universities worldwide for its green educational environment and sustainable educational facilities, according to the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking (GreenMetric) of Universitas Indonesia.

Many children in a remote mountainous commune in the central province of Quang Nam are struggling at school, after being given responsibility by their parents to look after younger siblings.

Vietnam always wants to further educational cooperation with the US as it is deploying three breakthrough tasks, such as improving qualifications of human resources, for rapid and sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs spent VND212bn (USD9.4m) buying training programmes from foreign countries last year.

The Ministry of Education and Training has held a conference gathering heads of higher education institutions in Da Nang to discuss ways to enhance the quality of tertiary education.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has launch the International Kangaroo Math Contest with the purpose of promoting the movement of teaching and studying Mathematics.

Since 1999, female students who move from provinces to universities in HCM City have had a safe, inexpensive place to stay at dormitories managed by local Catholic churches.

Tran Quoc Toan Secondary School in the central province of Phu Yen held an outdoor test for its pupils to curb opportunities to cheat.The images of the outdoor exam have gone viral.

It's not the fault of the Ministry of Education and Training in the high number of university graduates being unable to find a job recently, according to a local education expert.

Prejudice and legal regulations cause major difficulties for non-State universities in Vietnam, chairwoman of the management board of Hanoi-based Thang Long University Hoang Xuan Sinh said.