Education

Ethnic minority students in Ha Giang province will study in a national-standardised primary school, which was inaugurated at a ceremony held by the Agribank and the provincial People’s Committee.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien talks about issues facing the education sector in the new school year.

More than 22 million school students at all education levels on September 5 participated in the opening ceremony of the new academic year of 2015-2016.

Nearly 270 Australian undergraduates will enter short-term courses and internship programmes in Vietnam in 2016 as part of the New Colombo Plan Scholarship Programme, unveiled the Australian Embassy on September 4.

President Truong Tan Sang has urged the education sector to continue urgent reforms in education and training ahead of the start of the new academic year.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has agreed to shorten the new school year ceremony, an official said.

A number of organisations across the country have granted scholarships to underprivileged students on the threshold of the new 2015-2016 school year.

Vietnam will surprising not co-operate with any foreign governments to open more universities until at least 2020 according to a new decision by PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

Vallet scholarships were awarded to 272 outstanding students from universities, colleges and high schools from the central provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Ha Tinh at a ceremony on August 27.

More and more disabled children have been enrolled in school thanks to improved social awareness and the formation of State management mechanism in the field, but quality of education for these children still needs improvement, education experts said.

One of the critical tasks of Viet Nam linguistics was to ensure the clarity of the Vietnamese language and create the best conditions for it to fully develop.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has congratulated 98 outstanding students who achieved top results in the city's university and academy graduation exams at a meeting held in Hanoi.

Parents and students in Vietnam are complaining about the new method of enrolling students to university this year, saying it is too costly and stressful.

The US State Department has granted Harvard University US$2.5 million to transition a public policy programme in Viet Nam into the country's first independent, non-profit, US-affiliated university in HCM City, according to the Harvard Crimson newspaper.

American physicist and Nobel laureate Prof. George F. Smoot hosted an exchange with outstanding Vietnamese students in Quy Nhon city in the central Binh Dinh province.

Sixty physicists from 19 countries are participating in an international conference, which opened in the central Binh Dinh Province's Quy Nhon City today, to share new achievements and enhance co-operation.

Ha Noi will honour 98 outstanding students who achieved top results in the city's university and academy graduation exams, a press conference has heard.

The new national high school examination this year was a failure, forcing students to gamble on their futures, a veteran educator said.

Ho Chi Minh City has put into use 44 new schools at all levels for the 2015-2016 academic year, including 36 pre-schools and kindergartens, according to the municipal Department of Education and Training.