Education

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.

A tourism training association of Vietnam was set up at a congress in Ho Chi Minh City on August 1 with a view to fostering manpower development in the industry.

Vietnamese students have won three medals at the 48th International Chemistry Olympiad 2016, including two gold medals, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training.

Vietnam has eight universities in South East Asia’s top 100 universities according to the latest report from Webometrics, however, many of them have dropped in the rankings.

On July 29, the 60 students, three of whom are Vietnamese, selected as winners of the 2016 Many Languages, One World® international essay contest had their voices heard at the UN General Assembly.

Globalisation and technology are transforming universities and colleges worldwide, leading to different approaches in research and education, including in Việt Nam, the president of University of Victoria in Canada said at a conference in HCM City.

Ninety per cent of students sitting this year’s national university entrance exams scored 5 out of 10 or less in English when combined with their score in high school graduation exams, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Vietnam Consulate General and the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Battambang province, Cambodia on July 26 inaugurated a school for OV children in KaohChiveang village, Aek Phnom district which is located on the edge of Tonle Sap Lake.

Universities and enterprises need to work together more closely to ensure graduates have the necessary skills to be job-ready.

Vu Thi Chinh from the High School for Gifted Students under the VNU University of Sciences won the only gold medal for the Vietnamese team at the 27th International Biology Olympiad held in Hanoi.

Even though the needs for higher education has sharply surged after some cities and provinces in the Mekong Delta revealed incentives for degrees holders, the management and education quality of such courses are still being debated.

The Tokyo Human Health Sciences University Vietnam has officially opened in Hung Yen Province.