Education

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.

Vietnamese students have brought home a silver and four consolidation prizes at the 10th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad in Bhubaneswar city in India’s Odisha State.

A survey jointly released by the Ministry of Education and Training and UNICEF has revealed that Vietnamese students face many problems. Less than 20% of students always feel safe at school.

Pupils in a poor village in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang are in need of financial support to replace their current compacted-earth built classrooms.

The environment in the country is “good” for the modernisation of technical and professional training, a project director of the Vietnamese Skills for Employment Programme (VSEP) has said.

The six Hanoian students who represented Vietnam at the thirteenth International Junior Science Olympiad in Bali, Indonesia from December 3-10, won a total of six medals, the city’s Department of Education has announced.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has requested schools to halt the organising of an online game contest following public worry about its violence.

The European Union (EU) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training launched a project on employability for graduates yesterday in Hanoi.

Eleven Vietnamese school students have won top prizes at the Australian Mathematics Competition and the Australia Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad held in Vietnam for the first time.