Education

More than 500 primary and secondary school students in Hanoi, HCM City and central Da Nang city will take part in the annual Robothon Contest starting on October 30.

Hà Nội University of Science and Technology will have the right to use tuition as well as funds from enterprises and the government without asking permission from the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has proposed a mandatory exam for all medical students before they receive medical practice certificates.

The government is planning to remove tuition fees for ethnic minority preschoolers and secondary school students, the annual government conference held recently heard.

Many pupils in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces haven't been able to return to school and may have to dropout due to family difficulties after the recent floods.

School violence has recently increased not only in quantity, but also in severity, said educational experts.

Outstanding teachers and pupils nation-wide have been honoured by the Ministry of Education and Training for their achievements.

The Vietnam National University-Hanoi should take the lead in building Vietnam into a start-up nation, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told its managerial staff.

Public universities in Vietnam are to become autonomous in academic knowledge, human resources, and finances and will tighten their accountability.

A major effort to reform the nation’s education system and make it more practical and relevant has been ongoing for the last five years, but there is a danger that this can stumble on its own contradictions, experts say.

Chairman of the State Professor Title Council and Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has signed Decision No.55/QD-HDCDGSNN to confer titles on 703 new professors and associate professors in 2016.

Construction on the Vietnamese-German University campus yesterday began in a new urban area in Bình Dương Province.

Many apartment buildings have shot up in Hà Nội over the past several years, leading to a huge population increase. However, the construction of basic facilities like schools has been ignored or carried out slowly.

Soon after the Ministry of Education and Training proposed that Chinese and Russian be taught as first foreign languages from next year, a controversial discussion followed.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has been told that it will put a heavy burden on students by including multiple foreign languages in the curriculum at general schools.

Several of Russia’s globally-rated universities conducted a fact-finding tour of Vietnam from September 25-30 to seek enrolments, student exchange programmes, and connections with local partners, the Russian Science and Culture Centre in Vietnam announced.

The German Chamber of Skilled Crafts Potsdam yesterday handed over a Letter of Acknowledgement to certify the equivalence of two occupational standards offered by the LILAMA 2 Technical and Technology College in Đồng Nai Province.

As many as 340 Australian undergraduates will take short-term courses and internship programmes in Vietnam in 2017 as part of the New Colombo Plan Scholarship Programme according to the Australian Embassy.

The IVS Boarding School is the first centre in Ho Chi Minh City to teenagers and those with gaming or internet addictions.