Education

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.

More than 15,200 classrooms for pre-school children across the country failed to meet national standards last year, Ministry of Education and Training said.

The Guangxi Government wishes to intensify cooperation with Vietnamese ministries and localities through education in order to nurture the China-Vietnam comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, said Vice Chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Antonymous Region Lan Tianli.

The Prime Minister has recently approved a project which will provide overseas training for those working in culture and the arts by 2030.

The Vietnam Institute for International and Public Diplomacy Studies has made its debut in Hanoi.

Vietnamese students have won five medals at International Physics Olympiad 2016, including two golds, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on July 16 cut a ribbon to inaugurate the new headquarters of the Hanoi School of Public Health in Bac Tu Liem district, Hanoi.

A new online portal will enable Vietnamese people living overseas to learn Vietnamese via the Internet, following a project recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Vu Xuan Trung, a 12th grader from the northern province of Thai Binh, won the gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2016 (IMO 2016) in Hong Kong.

Some 263 million children worldwide, nearly one in 10, do not go to school, posing a daunting hurdle to the United Nations' efforts to educate all children by 2030, the U.N.'s cultural agency UNESCO reported on Friday.