Education

The Ministry of Education and Training has unveiled that four of the brightest high school students have been chosen to compete at the 49th International Chemistry Olympiad this coming July 6-15 at Mahidol University in Thailand.

Registration for the 2017 high school graduation and college entrance exams has drawn to a close after 20 days, with nearly 860,000 students registered, the Ministry of Education and Training announced.

Many Vietnamese parents want children to study majors which are thought to be easy to get a well-paid job after graduation, but often ignore what the children actually want to study.

Vietnam has made major strides in caring for, educating and protecting children over the past 27 years since the country became the first in Asia and second in the world to ratify the implementation of the UN Convention on

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.