Education

Giving autonomy to universities is necessary to improve the quality of higher education, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said.

A ceremony took place on March 18 at the Hanoi Opera House to celebrate the International Francophone Day (March 20).

The 12th Annual Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellows and Scholars Conference was held in Washington DC on March 17.

HCM City's party leader Dinh La Thang offered advice to a non-state local university on dealing with difficulties to realise their ambitious goal of becoming an internationally-standardised one.

An education mobile application developed by two Vietnamese overcame 1,200 technology companies globally to win first place at the SXSWedu in Austin, Texas, USA.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training, in collaboration with the city’s Mathematics Association, held a ceremony at Chu Van An High School in Hanoi to honour winners of the 2016 Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition.

Vietnam Fatherland Front President Nguyen Thien Nhan hosted a reception in Hanoi for visiting Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance.

Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan proposed Finland assist Vietnam in compiling new programs and textbooks at the Vietnam-Finland Education Forum on March 7 in Hanoi.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam pushed for improving the quality of education and training in order to raise productivity while chairing a seminar in Hanoi promoting vocational training amid the changing labour landscape.

A senior HCM City lecturer has complained about on-the-job qualifications, claiming that people merely seem them as something to cross-off on the list when seeking promotion, rather than genuine chances to learn new vocational skills.

More than 50 foreign universities from the UK, Australia, US, Canada, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, Ireland and New Zealand. took part in International Higher Education Day - IHED 2016 in Hanoi on March 5.

A high-level delegation from the five secondary schools in Hanoi paid a working visit to New Zealand to seek stronger education affiliation between the two nations.

The 2016 International Higher Education Day will take place in Hanoi on March 5 and Ho Chi Minh City on March 6 with participation from 50 foreign universities.

Can Tho is desirous of hoisting cooperation with the UK in tertiary education through more student, lecturer and expert exchange programs, higher levels of scholarship and grants and establishing joint research institutes.

President Truong Tan Sang has urged the Ha Noi-based Viet Nam National University (VNU) to revamp its teaching and learning methods, and employ advanced international education models to produce outstanding achievements.

The Ministry of Education and Training will consider adding Vietnam’s successful defence against China's 1979 invasion of the north and battle of the Paracel Islands 1974 to school history books, said a ministry official.

Authorities in the capital city planned to earmark 70 billion VND (3.1 million USD) for vocational training in 2016, with priority given to rural labourers and people with disabilities.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) announced on February 18 the enrolment of 1,300 candidates this year for Project 911.

Concerted efforts need to be made by the education sector to fine-tune the quality of English language teaching in primary schools, paving the way to meet the nation’s new education programme.