Education

Fifteen Vietnamese youth will participate in next year’s annual ASEAN-INDIA Student Exchange Program, January 15-18, in New Delhi, reports the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

Politburo member and Vice Chairwoman of National Assembly Tong Thi Phong hosted a reception with students who won prizes at International Olympiads and had the most outstanding performance on the 2016 national high school exam in Hanoi.

The private sector is crucial to building a standardised vocational training system by 2020, thus improving the quality of human resources to regional and world standards, heard a conference in Hà Nội on December 2.

Nearly 250 scientists from 40 countries are expected to participate in the Asiacrypt conference scheduled to open in Hanoi soon.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga has stressed that his ministry has not yet licenced any class providing training courses which allegedly help stimulate children's brains so that they can become more intelligent.

The Vietnamese student team has won 32 medals - 20 gold medals, 11 silver ones and one bronze - in the seventh World Mathematics Team Championship (WMTC) held in Seoul, South Korea.

A workshop was held in Tokyo from November 23-26 to enroll local students for Vietnam – Japan University in 2017.

The central city’s education and training department will launch free open-air libraries at 102 primary schools for all students and local residents next month.

IFProfs Vietnam, a professional social network for French-language teachers and professionals, has been launched by the French consulate in HCM City and the French Institute in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has expressed his hope that the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) will achieve its target of ranking among top Asian universities and becoming a source of brainpower and start-up incubation.

Vietnam was ranked 31st among 72 countries regarding English language skills in the EF English Proficiency Index (EPI), prepared from the latest research by EF Education First, a global language training company.

Vietnam has some of the best university-based teacher training programs in the world, said Deputy Minister Nguyen Minh Hien of the Ministry of Education of Training at a recent forum in Hanoi.

The school walls have a fresh coat of paint and classrooms are crammed, but it will take longer to undo the damage done to thousands of Iraqi children who lived under Islamic State for more than two years.

Education-training is one of the top priorities of the Vietnam-New Zealand cooperation, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed.

The Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha admitted that the government had failed to meet the goals of the National Foreign Language scheme for the 2008-2020 period.

Vietnamese rank sixth among foreign students studying in the US, according to Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.

University curricula in Vietnam will be shortened by up to one year, according to a new framework of the country’s national education system recently approved by the Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

The Vietnam team bagged 24 medals, including seven gold medals, at the International Mathematics and Science Olympiad 2016 in Indonesia.

The National Economics University needs to devise specific plans to promote comprehensive educational renovations to contrubute to building a start-up nation, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said.