Education

Russia will grant 855 scholarships to Vietnamese undergraduate and post-graduate students in the 2016-2017 academic year.

A shortage of classrooms in HCM City primary schools is the main barrier keeping students from day boarding, which includes staying at the school from early morning until late in the day, including lunch.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has given a nod of approval to the establishment of Hoa Lam International University of Medicine and Pharmacy.

The Vietnam Aviation Academy and D'viation Solutions, a subsidiary of Malaysia's D'viation Group have signed an agreement for a comprehensive strategic partnership to enhance aviation education and training in Vietnam.

Vietnam has the second-highest number of students among the foreign students in South Korea, the host country’s Ministry of Justice has reported.

Leaders of two-year intermediate schools offering training in healthcare are concerned that a new national recruitment policy on medical personnel will lead to a decline in enrollment.

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.