Education

Nearly 23 million pupils nationwide will attend the opening ceremony for the 2016-2017 academic year on September 5.

Despite low tuition and the 100-period (one period of 45 minutes) curriculum, the majority of general school students are not interested in vocational training programs. They attend the vocational classes just to receive bonus marks.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has requested that tuition fees at all education levels should be made public.

Hundreds of parents in Nghe An Province have gathered at a local primary school to protest against the Ministry of Education and Training's new Vietnam Escuela Nueva education programme.

Hanoi will organise a ceremony at Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam (Literature Temple) in Hanoi on August 28 to honour 100 outstanding valedictorians from universities and institutes based in the capital in 2016.

The Bac Ninh High School for Gifted Students, the most modern in Vietnam, was inaugurated in Bac Ninh city to welcome 1,200 students in the new academic year.

The decision by Chairman of Ha Tinh Province People's Committee Vo Kim Cu to use USD47,610 from the local budget to subsidise a local private nursery school has stirred public ire.

The Ministry of Education and Training has encouraged schools across the country to voluntarily continue applying the new model of learning and teaching, called the Việt Nam Escuela Nueva (VNEN).

Public preschools and primary schools in HCM City are struggling to recruit enough teachers to meet enrolment this year, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.

Vietnamese students were presented with four medals, including two golds, at the 28th International Informatics Olympiad recently held in Russia.

HCM City's authorities are considering cancelling the license for a USD3.5-billion Malaysian project to build an international university township due to its long delay.

The Ministry of Education and Planning has set itself an ambitious goal of making English the second language at universities across Vietnam.

More than 100 ASEAN university students have gathered at Duy Tan University in Danang for a leadership conference on August 11-14 promoting intercultural understanding.

Nearly 1.2 million students in HCM City are expected to enrol in schools for the upcoming academic year, an increase of 59,000 compared to last year, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.

The Ministry of Education and Training has been asked to quickly release the rankings of domestic universities.

Freshmen to universities with financial autonomy have called on the universities to publicise tuition fees so that they and their families can manage the sum actively.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called for joint efforts from the Party, State and the whole society together with the education sector to improve education quality, which he described as key for the country’s sustainable development.

The prime minister has approved investment for phase 2 of the secondary education development programme, aimed at enhancing conditions for ensuring the quality of secondary education.

The Hanoi University (HANU) and Italy’s Niccolo Cusano University (UniCusano) will enhance student exchanges as part of an agreement reached recently.