Education

PASAL International and Effortless English founder AJ Hodge have announced the launch of a new English language online school emanating from Hanoi using a patented proprietary system.

The Asia – Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will fund 125 scholarships worth VND425 million (US$19,125) for students and young professionals in architecture and construction fields in Ho Chi Minh City.

A recent workshop was held in Perth city in the state of Western Australia with a focus on the education system of Vietnam.

Thirteen applicants from Vietnam have been awarded scholarships to study for their PhDs in Australia under the Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships programme.

All 12 Vietnamese students who attended the 12th International Mathematics and Science Olympiad for Primary Schools 2015 (IMSO 2015) in Thailand won medals, bringing home two golds.

A shortage of qualified teachers at high schools nationwide is the major obstacle preventing the implementation of a pilot bilingual programme on teaching maths and natural science in English and Vietnamese.

International standard Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees were presented to 43 students who have successfully completed programmes offered by the Vietnam-Germany University.

A Memorandum of Understanding was inked between Singapore-based Kydon Holdings and Vietnam’s UNET Education Group to bolster bilateral cooperation and share practices in e-learning.

As the unemployment rates of graduates keep rising, officials are blaming unbalanced training courses and the low quality of graduates.

Nearly half of Cambodian students have pursued a college or university degree in Vietnam, followed by 11 percent and 10.8 percent in agriculture and economics, respectively.

A teacher from Thua Thien-Hue Province is being investigated after many parents complained that she had used corporal punishment on her pupils.

As of August, only 15,000 of the 330,000 people eligible for unemployment allowances had enrolled in vocational training programmes, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

More low-cost playgrounds for children which use recycled materials have been built in many localities in Vietnam.

Thirty teams of three students each had only one hour to programme robots in the Robothon Contest held last Saturday at Rach Mieu Sporting House in HCM City.

Vietnam and Germany will work together to ensure the Vietnamese-German University is an exemplary university in the the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam urged the Ministry of Education and Training to tailor its policies on autonomy for public universities to the needs of each institution.

The 'Youth vocational training in Hanoi' project worth over VND38.5 billion (US$1.73 million) was launched at the Hanoi Industry Vocational College and the College of Urban Works Construction in Hanoi.

Vietnam has put a priority on developing early childhood education in the country’s underprivileged socio-economic areas, mountainous and remote regions as well as border areas and islands.

Vietnam Ambassador to Mexico Le Linh Lan was one of 1,500 delegates that gathered in Monterrey, Mexico on October 15-18 for an international early childhood education conference.