Education

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.

This year’s British Council New Directions in English Language and Assessment conference will be held in Hà Nội on 13 and 14 October 2016.

Samsung Electronics has partnered with the Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy to deploy its pioneering Smart Classroom solutions for training medical professionals.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has praised the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education’s chapters and members for their efforts and contributions to promoting study, talents, education reform to build a learning society.

Official reports show the percentage of unemployed young people in urban areas is higher than in rural areas and the proportion of unemployed workers with bachelor’s degree or other higher education degrees is higher than untrained workers.

A requirement that grade 1 pupils in the southern province of Dong Nai have to sign a pledge not to violate traffic regulations has met with opposition from some parents.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training will start the trial teaching of Russian and Chinese for grade 3 to 12 pupils from 2017.