Education

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.

The Mother Tongue - based Bilingual Education project funded by UNICEF in Vietnam has proven effective, benefiting teachers, pupils, and education managers in the beneficiary localities.

Vietnam has put cross-border education as the centrepiece of its bilateral economic cooperation talks with the UK since the election of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc earlier this year.

In a regular school in HCM City’s Cần Giờ District, a 13-year-old boy diagnosed with intellectual disability has been making gradual progress.

The Japanese language is being taught at some primary schools in Hanoi and HCM City, on a trial basis.

The Hue University in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on September 9 presented the Honorary Professor title to two professors Kiyoshi Morita and Kim Doo-chul, who are working at the Okayama University, Japan.

US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius, joined by Leon Fuerth, former National Security Advisor for Vice President Al Gore, and the youngest son of General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vo Hong Nam, visited Dien Bien Province to stress the importance

Strides have been made in Vietnam to eradicate illiteracy over the last seventy years, and efforts to promote literacy continue today.

As many as 1,000 pupils in the central coastal province of Ha Tinh have not returned to school as their parents have lost their jobs following the mass fish deaths caused by Formosa’s pollution incident.

French President Francois Hollande talked to students at the Vietnam National University-Hanoi (VNU-Hanoi) on September 6 during his State visit to Vietnam from September 5-7.

Work on the new site for the Alexandre Yersin French school was kicked off this morning, September 5, prior to the visit of French President Français Hollande to Vietnam.

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.