Education

Authorities in the central province of Binh Thuan met with a Canadian review mission to discuss the implementation of the Vietnam Skills for Employment Project (VSEP) on July 8.

Teachers at preschools in HCM City are quitting to better-paid work with less stress.

Representatives of Eastern International University (EIU) in southern Binh Duong province and Portland State University (PSU) in the US’s Oregon State signed a memorandum of understanding on granting scholarships to Vietnamese students to learn at the PSU on July 3.

Students are flocking to Hanoi's Temple of Literature to pray for luck during final exams.

More than one million students completed registration for the national high school exam, which began on July 1 in 38 testing centres throughout the country. Students will not only battle their nerves but also the extreme hot weather blanketing

The Scholarship Programme to Enhance Literacy and Learning granted a total of 2,476 scholarships worth a combined US$557,000 to disadvantaged students in 7 central localities in the 2014-2015 academic year.

More than one million students registered for the national high school exam in the country this morning.

Vietnamese parents can take their children during the summer to modern and safe playing fields, which require expensive admission tickets, or to free playing fields, which are not safe enough.

“Vietnam can produce PhDs. Why can’t it produce screws then?” Tran Quoc Tuan asked at a recent National Assembly session on policies to develop supporting industries.

Vietnamese education consumers have suddenly realized that university degrees can no longer be a guarantee for labor force quality and cannot ensure good jobs for degree holders.

Nearly 40 university students from HCM City, Hanoi, Can Tho and Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province attended the Wildlife Summer Camp 2015 which ended yesterday (June 22) at Wildlife At Risk's (WAR) Hon Me Wildlife Rescue Station.

Sixth graders applying to study at Tran Dai Nghia School in HCM City will have to attend an English test instead of an entrance exam.

Vietnam is striving for more mechanisation in agriculture and high-technology farming, but qualified graduates are unable to find jobs in the sector because companies are switching to more profitable businesses.

The Vietnamese government will give VND72 billion (US$3.3 million) for training students of agriculture, forestry and fisheries at the Viet Nam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) in the 2016-2017 period.

The tuition exemption policy at pedagogical school students can no longer help attract good students to education schools. The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) suggested new solutions but they were refused by the National Assembly.

The math and literature questions raised at the high school entrance exam were viewed as being within students’ capacity to answer. Students said they could finish the tests before the deadline.

Vietnam ranks 10th in a list of countries with the most engineering graduates, with 100,390 engineers graduating every year.

Vietnamese are divided on the existence of schools for the gifted and classes of selected students. Some believe schools for the gifted are not good for students, while others think the schools should be part of the educational system.

Students throughout the country who must take high school graduation exams at various venues are finding free accommodations through the Facebook page of HCM City's Exam Season Assistance's Student Assistance Centre.