Education

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.

The 27th International Biology Olympiad, held in Hanoi from July 17 – 23, will record the biggest student and delegation numbers at an IBO so far.

The United Nations Children’s Fund in Vietnam and the Republic of Korea’s S.M. Entertainment have signed a three-year cooperation agreement with a view to assisting music education for Vietnamese children.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau, who won the 2010 Fields Medal, said that Vietnam should focus more on fundamental scientific research which is a key factor in improving the quality of its science sector.

Vocational training schools are revamping their curricula and offering new training majors in an attempt to stem the decline in the number of students applying to the schools.

For more than 10 years ago, children in a mountainous village of the northern central province of Thanh Hoa had to study in classrooms that seem on the verge of collapsing.

Danang People's Court has ordered a woman who was sponsored to study abroad to pay compensation for her average academic results.

The World Bank-funded “Enhancing teacher education programme” will be carried out in Vietnam to support the country’s education reform efforts through the delivery of continuous professional development to teachers and principals.