Education

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) confirmed that it would comply with any government decision to transfer the management of the vocational training system to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET).

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga said that it is essential to increase ties between universities and businesses to improve the practical experiences and working skills students gain after graduation.

Around 130 delegates from the UK, Vietnam and ASEAN countries discussed innovative ways to make university / industry partnership more fruitful in creating more employable graduates and driving innovation.

Some 17,650 people aged 15-60 in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang are expected to read and write by 2020, increasing the local literacy rate to over 94 percent.

The Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City have been named among the top 150 Asian universities in the 2016 QS rankings.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga spoke to the newspaper Kinh te & Do Thi (Urban & Economic Affairs) about Vietnam’s efforts to attract foreign students.

The Ministry of Education and Training may stop the operation of dozens of teacher training institutes as part of a drive to improve quality.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha called on universities nationwide to boost the quality of English teaching to ensure that students dramatically improve their foreign language skills in the context of ever-increasingly global integration.

Chinese students sitting down to the most important exams of their lives this week needed no reminder of how high stakes were. But they got one — the promise of jail time if they were caught cheating on their tests.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha asked Ho Chi Minh City to take the initiative in reducing school students’ study overload and putting an end to redundant extra classes, during a meeting with the city’s leaders.

The Vietnam-Japan University (VJU) will officially open its campus on September 9, according to an announcement made on June 6 by Tsutomo Takebe, a special advisor to the Japanese Diet.

Many people have expressed surprise at the appointment of US Senator Bob Kerrey to chair the much heralded US-funded Fulbright University due to his notorious role during the war in Vietnam.

The Australia-ASEAN Council has unveiled a new international partnership programme that connects Australian schools with those across Southeast Asia.

The first school named after the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos will be open in Danang City in July.

Vietnamese students won six gold medals and took the lead in the second round of the Asia-Pacific Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools (APMOPS 2016).

A global business start-up contest is being organised for the first time in Vietnam to offer high school and university students in the country a chance to win money and support for their business ideas.

On May 25, US Secretary of State John Kerry officially launched Vietnam's first private non-profit university in Ho Chi Minh City.

Teachers and pupils are facing various difficulties to eliminate illiteracy in the remote area of Nghe An Province.

The Ministry of Education plans to cut down admission quota for teacher training universities to prevent unemployment and to improve the quality of teaching staff.