Tran Hoang Anh, a student of the Hanoi-based Foreign Trade University, has brought home the solitary bronze medal for Vietnam in the Microsoft Excel 2013 category at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship 2019 (MOSWC) in the United States.

Two innovations of Vietnamese students won gold medals at the World Invention Creativity Olympic (WICO) 2019 in the Republic of Korea.

A woman in Ho Chi Minh City plans to pursue a second college degree at a local university just three years after earning her first one at the age of 60.

Vietnamese students pocketed two gold medals on the third day of competition at the 11th ASEAN Schools Games, which is ongoing in Semerang, Indonesia.

A Vietnamese delegation learned about Australia’s experience in university governance and self-autonomy during their recent visit, as part of the Aus4Skills programme funded by the Australian government for the 2016-2020 period.

As many as 30 per cent of high-school students have decided not to apply for colleges this year according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Seven of eight Vietnamese students who joined Asian Physics Olympiad 2019 have achieved medals, including two silvers.

Delegates at a seminar in Hanoi on April 21 discussed the need to connect higher education institutions with businesses in training high-quality agricultural workforce.

Ton Duc Thang University in HCM City has been listed in top 101-200 of The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019.

Each young Vietnamese should be ambitious and fearless to follow start-up dreams and bring prosperity to the country, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

The British Council in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) organized the second Vietnam - UK Higher Education Forum themed “Global landscape in internationalizing higher education - standing in favour of quality to quantity” in Hanoi on October 30.

BAA Training, one of the largest aviation training centers in Northern Europe, has recently announced the establishment of a new company in Vietnam - BAA Training Vietnam – which will operate a training center with four full flight simulators and an Ab Initio flight school by 2023.

Seven teams of students from five universities in Vietnam will participate at Shell Eco-Marathon Asia (SMEA) 2018 – Make the Future, which will take place at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore from March 8-11.

Thirty Vietnamese have received the New Zealand ASEAN Scholarship Awards to study in New Zealand.

The UK Embassy in Vietnam, in collaboration with the Directorate of Vocational Education and Training, held a seminar on the two countries’ cooperation in occupational skills concerning education and training on January 17 in Hanoi.

Leading providers of technical and vocational training and education from the United Kingdom will visit HCM City and Hanoi from January 15-18 to set up and extend partnerships with local companies, schools, colleges, universities and government organisations.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has admitted that many teachers in Vietnam receive salary levels which are not commensurate with their efforts.

Fulbright Everest Launchpad, a free English teaching programme for 40 11th and 12th graders around the country started on Monday.

Four universities in Vietnam have been evaluated and accredited for meeting international standards by the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) in France.

While homeschooling is still foreign to most Vietnamese parents, two brothers in Ho Chi Minh City have been undergoing the educational method for years with flying colors.

Experts have objected to several provisions of a draft decree on foreign investment in education saying they need further clarification and revision.

President Tran Dai Quang has urged the education sector to focus on developing high-quality human resources and training “global citizens” in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution, especially in IT, nano technology, automation, telecommunications, new material and energy.

This year’s British Council New Directions in English Language and Assessment conference will be held in Hà Nội on 13 and 14 October 2016

Despite low tuition and the 100-period (one period of 45 minutes) curriculum, the majority of general school students are not interested in vocational training programs. They attend the vocational classes just to receive bonus marks.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has requested that tuition fees at all education levels should be made public.

Hanoi will organise a ceremony at Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam (Literature Temple) in Hanoi on August 28 to honour 100 outstanding valedictorians from universities and institutes based in the capital in 2016.

The Ministry of Education and Training has encouraged schools across the country to voluntarily continue applying the new model of learning and teaching, called the Việt Nam Escuela Nueva (VNEN).

The Ministry of Education and Planning has set itself an ambitious goal of making English the second language at universities across Vietnam.

The Ministry of Education and Training has been asked to quickly release the rankings of domestic universities.

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 on June 7. 

Vietnam have grabbed six medals at the 2016 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO 2016) which was hosted by the Republic of Korea on May 7-8.

A graduate academy in Vietnam has been dubbed a ‘doctorate mill’ after a local man found out that one new student earned a PhD degree from the institution almost on a daily basis in 2015.

Most of gradute students are struggling with adapting to the real workplace, even after experiencing apprenticeships, researchers from the HCM City Pedagogical University have claimed after a two-year study.

The Ministry of Education and Training held a ceremony in Hanoi on April 20 to officially hand over Hanoi Science-Technology University (HSTU) to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST).

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

Giving autonomy to universities is necessary to improve the quality of higher education, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said.  

The 2016 International Higher Education Day (IHED Vietnam 2016) will take place in Hanoi on March 5 and Ho Chi Minh City on March 6 with participation from 50 foreign universities.

Can Tho is desirous of hoisting cooperation with the UK in tertiary education through more student, lecturer and expert exchange programs, higher levels of scholarship and grants and establishing joint research institutes.

Students at a boarding school in the central province of Nghe An's mountainous district of Ky Son have to forage in the forest to find enough to eat because their daily government allowance for meals is inadequate.

A group of young Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City have created an Uber-style application which allows drivers and hitchhikers to share a ride on the same route they travel.

Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) President Nguyen Thien Nhan has asked to Switzerland to support Vietnam’s developing a qualified educational system, especially in combining vocational training, science, and technology at universities and research institutes.

Local authorities are willing to spend trillions of dong to build imposing monuments, but are hesitant to spend money for nursery schools.

Local authorities are willing to spend trillions of dong to build imposing monuments, but are hesitant to spend money for nursery schools.

Holding a plastic bag in her hand containing a textbook, pens and a notebook, Hang Thi Xa quickly walks into the schoolyard of the Ta Phin primary school. It was 6.30pm. The school was calm and dark. The tranquility was broken by her quick footsteps with her plastic sandals.

The ASEAN Economic Community will be officially established at the end of this month. Pursuant to signed agreements, ASEAN member countries will accept each other’s qualifications.

Even though the general unemployment rate saw a slight decrease, graduate unemployment has continued to increase.

All six Vietnamese students attending the 12th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) held in the Republic of Korea brought home medals, according to the Hanoi municipal Department of Education and Training.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho will invest more than VND9.6 trillion (US$422.4 million) to upgrade the city's education system by 2030, announced Chairman Vo Thanh Thong of Can Tho municipal People’s Committee.

With more universities and offices requiring English qualifications from graduates, students are turning to hiring other people to sit their English exams.

Students from low-income families studying in universities, colleges and vocational schools will have fees waived and get other financial assistance under a recent decision approved by the Prime Minister.

All students at the Vietnam National University-HCM City (VNU-HCM) are required to study in an intensive English programme at the school, according to the VNU-HCM's English Project Committee.

Pham Khanh Phong Lan, vice director of HCM City Department of Health raised concerns over the quality of future doctors as increasing numbers of universities are seeking permission to open their own medicine faculties.

A workshop was held on November 24 in Niagara Fall, Ontario, Canada to foster the cooperation in education between Vietnam and Canada.

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. 

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.

The 'Youth vocational training in Hanoi' project worth over VND38.5 billion (US$1.73 million) was launched at the Hanoi Industry Vocational College (HNIVC) and the College of Urban Works Construction (CUWC) in Hanoi on October 21.

More than 50 students from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore Polytechnic have finished a program to improve craft villages in southern Vietnam.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on October 13 to launch the online university FUNiX under the FPT Education System. 

As many as of 548 students from 24 high schools across Vietnam took part in the International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns held at the Giang Vo Junior High School in Ba Dinh district, Hanoi on October 11.

The Ha Nam provincial People's Committee and Hanoi-based Vietnam University of Commerce on September 19 held a ceremony to unveil the Vietnam University of Commerce in Ha Nam in the presence of Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan. 

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, a global body for professional accountants, has sealed agreements with three Vietnamese universities at a signing ceremony in London.  

The 27th International Biology Olympiad (IBO) will take place for the first time in Vietnam from July 17-24 next year with the participation of over 1,000 candidates from 70 countries and territories.

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.

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 on August 18.

Many universities and colleges in northern Vietnam are worried about a possible shortage of students for the upcoming years as the number of applicants seems to be on a falling trend.

As transnational companies discover and choose Vietnam as their choice to invest and conduct business operations, an educated workforce is even more essential to the nation’s economic viability. 

A school built with funding from the Vietnamese government, was inaugurated in the northern Lao province of Luang Namtha on July 29 after 18 months of construction. 

Nearly 20,500 university exam candidates, out of 720,000 in total, have scored under 1 for one subject, which would hinder them from entering university, the Ministry of Education and Training has reported.

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 northern and central regions, set to surpass 40 degrees Celsius in Hanoi.

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.

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. 

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.

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

Recent reports released by state management agencies have repeatedly warned about the increasingly high unemployment rate of university graduates. However, for most high school graduates, higher education is their priority.

The 1st Asian Undergraduate Summit (AUS) bringing together undergraduate students of diverse disciplines and providing them with the opportunity to engage in meaningful academic, cultural, and social exchange will get underway on June 14-19 in HCM City.

The Hanoi National University (HNU) has said it has successfully organized the key test to select best students. Educators have suggested applying the new exam model for national high school finals.

Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan is on a working visit to France from June 4-9 with a hope of enhancing bilateral cooperation in the field.

Most schools in large cities have reported that 90 percent of their students are considered excellent, a figure described as “abnormally high”.

When asked why 30 candidates, who graduated from foreign schools with “distinction” and “excellent” levels, or came first at domestic schools, failed the civil service exam, the leaders of the Hanoi Department of Interior Affairs said the candidates did not really want to become civil servants.

The first nine finalists of a contest in which Google encourages Vietnamese kids to create doodles for its search website were officially announced on Monday.

Many general school teachers and university lecturers were recently found as not having  education degrees required for their jobs, while they have been working on posts for many years.

The quota for public high schools students in HCM City this year is about 64,600, leaving approximately 14,000 students with no chance of receiving a public education which was generally known as best in the education system.

US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius was the guest of honour at the inauguration ceremony on April 17 for the new St Paul American School campus in Hanoi.

The vocational education law will take effect in three months. However, vocational schools still don’t know which management agency they will belong to – the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) or the Ministry of Education and Training (MOIT).

Vietnam has been trying to produce more and more workers with bachelor’s degrees, while it has been neglecting vocational education. 

A two-student team from Da Nang University overcame 628 peers' projects from across 30 universities to come in first place at an urban energy-saving innovation competition held in March.

High school teachers think the sample questions provided by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) for the finals are too difficult for students in general education.

A lecturer from Hanoi University of Technology has won a huge following on social media because he keeps "escaping" hospital so he can continue to teach classes despite his poor health.

The nation got two big  prizes at a March 1 awards ceremony of the 2015 Shell Eco-marathon Asia competition taking place in Manila, the Philippines, attended by more than 100 teams from 17 countries.

The history of Da Nang and its relationship with the Hoang Sa Archipelago (Paracel Islands) will be introduced into the curricula at secondary and high schools in the central coastal city this year, officials have announced.

Vietnam will field nine teams at the 2015 Shell Eco-marathon Asia competition taking place February 26 to March 1 in Manila, the Philippines.

President Truong Tan Sang has expressed his hope that the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC) will set an example for the nation by offering training courses up to world-

Toyota Motor Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training have presented scholarships to 59 outstanding students from nine universities in the north.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology has completed the procedures to become an official member of Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering (AOTULE) network.

A two-month inspection into the admission capacity of 93 non-state high schools across Hanoi will be conducted by the city Department of Education and Training starting next Monday.

The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam has announced a new programme under which the Japanese Government will provide full scholarships for Vietnamese teachers and students in 2015.

A group of students from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science have claimed the special prize of the 2014 Eureka Awards.

Young teachers in HCM City are facing tough competition, with about double the number of applicants for available school positions.

A night class for ethnic minority people in Dak Nong Province has successfully helped eliminate illiteracy in Long Son Commune in Dak Nong Province.

Universities want closer vocational links with business in Vietnam to speed up the transfer of tertiary graduates into viable jobs, a conference on the application of career orientation to higher education has heard.

The ground-breaking ceremony of the Vietnam-Japan University (VJU) was held at Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park in Thach That district, Hanoi on December 20 in the presence of State President Truong Tan Sang and other Vietnamese and Japanese officials.

The Vietnam National University – Hanoi will enforce a regulation that gives priority to female applicants over their male counterparts in their recruitment for master programs from 2015 onward, in an attempt to help more women earn academic degrees.

The 2015 ASEAN – US Science and Technology Fellows Program offers 16 fellowships to applicants of five ASEAN countries, allowing them to study in the US during 12 months, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on its website on December 5.

Vietnamese students have bagged two gold, two silver and one bronze medals at the 11th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) held in Mendoza city, Argentina, from December 3.

Vietnam Ambassador to Russia Nguyen Thanh Son recently honoured Sofia Kortrikova for her decades of distinguished teaching and mentoring of Vietnamese Russian language students.

The People’s Committee of the southern province of Kien Giang in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Training organized a ceremony on Wednesday to announce the Prime Minister’s decision to establish Kien Giang University.

The French Embassy in coordination with Campus France will hold tertiary education festivals at the Pullman Saigon Centre in HCM City on December 6 and the Pullman Hotel in Hanoi on December 7.

Students and teachers from 20 junior and senior high schools in Hanoi gathered at a workshop on November 26 to share their opinions on how to build safe, accountable and child-friendly schools. 

The Vietnam-Korea Vocational College of Technology in northern Bac Giang province officially inaugurated and launched its 2014-15 academic year on November 24.

The opening ceremony saw the presence of Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam Jun Dae Joo, Chief Representative of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Vietnam Chang Jae Yun, local officials, teachers and students. 

The current curriculum overemphasised technical knowledge and failed to take into account individual strengths and weaknesses and regional cultural differences, NA members agreed.

Education is an important factor in making Sweden well known for its innovations, Camilla Mellander – Swedish Ambassador to Vietnam – told Tuoi Tre News in a recent interview during the “Innovative Sweden” program, now running in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam values its co-operation on training and education with international partners, including the European Union, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga said in his speech at the EU–Vietnam higher education policy forum in Hanoi on November 14.

The Vietnamese Students Association in the UK (SVUK) organised an annual congress on November 1 with the aim of consolidating the organisation to be able to effectively represent more than 8,000 Vietnamese students in the UK.

Twelve Vietnamese students, aged between 14 and 16, have received ASEAN scholarships to begin their study in Singapore.

The Vietnam national round of the 2015 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) officially kicked off at a ceremony at the Foreign Trade University in Ho Chi Minh City on October 18.

A group of 52 Norwegian students from Norway had a trip to Hoi An City in central Vietnam on Friday to learn to be farmers as part of their extra-curricular activities.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien threw her support behind a proposal to include literature in the entrance exam for medical universities.

Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper has recently granted a scholarship worth VND15 million (US$700) to a student at a university in the southern province of Long An for her project on low-cost English classes.

Many universities in Vietnam have creating rules forbidding their students from wearing jeans, thin clothes and slippers to class.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called on the Vietnam National University- HCM City to make every effort to become a Vietnamese "brand name".

Education is one of the bright spots in the multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Singapore.

Nearly 10,000 Vietnamese students are studying at Singaporean universities, colleges and schools. Many Vietnamese officials, doctor or master degree holders have graduated from renowned institutions in the island nation, particularly at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) and Civil Service College   (CSC).

Six Hanoi high school students will compete in the 11th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) in Argentina from December 2-11.

Five secondary students from HCM City are set to take part in the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) 2014, to be held in Russia in November.

As many as 300 candidates from ten ASEAN countries are expected to participate in the 10^th regional skills competition at the My Dinh National Convention Centre in Hanoi from October 19-29.

The Vietnam Mathematical Society organized a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vietnam’s participation in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).

Vietnam National University, Hanoi and other universities throughout the nation should pay particular attention to nurturing the social and moral values of students as an integral part of the education process. 

The outstanding results achieved by Vietnamese students at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) provide a solid foundation for the country to build mathematical development programs in the future.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has approved two sets of teaching material on anti-corruption to be used for colleges and universities.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to combine the annual national high school exam and the university entrance exam from next year. At present, they are held separately.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has recently signed a decision to approve the hosting of the 2016 International Biology Olympiad in Hanoi in July of that year.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong beat a drum on the occasion of the beginning of the new academic year on September 4 at Hanoi’s Nguyen Gia Thieu high school, which he attended nearly 60 years ago.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has recently signed a decision to approve the hosting of the 2016 International Biology Olympiad in Hanoi in July of that year.

The story of a 23-year-old Vietnamese woman who spent one month teaching students in a poor region of Thailand has drawn a lot of attention thanks to its moving details.

The Embassy of Germany awarded the German language certificate (DSD I) to 63 students of Foreign Language Specialized School and Viet Duc High School in Hanoi on August 29. 

Vietnam's education experts on August 28 called for more efforts to better prepare students for their respective career choices and entry into the labour market during their years in secondary education.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on August 26 urged the education sector to accelerate the granting of autonomy to State-run universities, which he said is a breakthrough to improve tertiary education quality.

Le Quoc Viet has received the prestigious award Innovators Under 35 for his “deep learning” research, according to the US leading magazine MIT Technology Review. 

Le Nguyen Vuong Linh has won a treasure trove of 12 gold and silver medals at the Singapore National Olympiad in the five subjects of Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy.

The Vietnam Design Association (VDAS) has announced establishment of an institute of comic books and cartoons in Ho Chi Minh City with an aim to carry out research projects and develop human resources for this sector, the Saigon Times Daily reported.

Nearly 200 delegates from universities around the globe are gathering at the Vietnam Education Dialogue 2014: Higher Education Reforms (VED 2014) in HCM City from July 31 to August 1.

The Vietnamese team won two gold medals and two silvers at the 2014 International Chemistry Olympiad which concluded in Hanoi on Monday.

Vietnam always favours the development of science – technology talents, including those in the chemical science, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the closing ceremony of the 46th annual International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) in Hanoi on July 28.

Hundreds of English teachers in the southern province of Ben Tre are flocking to the local Center for Continuing Education for an express training course in order to pass a qualification test to meet European standards, otherwise they could be disciplined.

Over 291 students from 75 countries around the globe have registered to compete in the 46th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO 2014) scheduled to be held in Hanoi from July 20-29.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien made the announcement at a press conference on July 16.

Vietnamese students have recently won four medals at an international biology contest held in Indonesia, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

Vietnam has won three gold medals, 2 silvers and one bronze at the 55^th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in South Africa.

Vague regulations and hard realities often prevent disabled students from getting into their desired universities, confusing educators.

The new circular and decree issued by Vietnamese authorities in order to improve the management of foreign workers in Vietnam have caused troubles to many foreign teachers who are unable to meet all the conditions of the regulations.

The HCM City People's Committee has asked the Department of Education and Training to re-evaluate its pilot Cambridge programme and not to replace it with an unapproved integrated English teaching curriculum.

More than 571,000 high school students nationwide began the national university entrance examinations on July 4 seeking a place at one of the 141 universities and colleges.

Students from around the country have been flocking to the Temple of Literature in Hanoi to pray for luck before the upcoming university entrance exams.

The Scholarship Programme to Enhance Literacy and Learning (SPELL) recently awarded scholarships valued at US$3.7 million to roughly 40,000 disadvantaged children in seven central provinces.

The Ho Chi Minh City International University under the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City inaugurated three modern ultra high-frequency, high-performance computing (HPC), and human–machine interface laboratories early this week.

Vietnam has won the third prize at the final round of the global energy contest “Go Green in the City 2014” held in Paris from June 17 to 21.

HCM City will pilot an integrated international education programme before wider application at the city level, said one official.

Professor Alan Kerzner, a renowned American marketing consultant who is president of numerous business groups in the U.S., will chair a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City this week.

More youths in Vietnam have now chosen to take some time off school or work to explore the world, improve their life skills and gain experience to prep for a promising future.

Many education experts have come out in opposition to a recent draft decree by the Ministry of Interior placing stricter foreign language requirements on deputy ministers, saying it is impractical.

It was a rainy afternoon in June in Hanoi when members of the BK LEAD of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology Aerodynamic Institute were finishing their ‘Formula 1’ car for Formula SAE, a design competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers International for students around the world.

The Chinese government has incorporated false and unreasonable content into school textbooks in order to propagandize their groundless sovereignty over the East Vietnam Sea.

Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan was quizzed by National Assembly deputies on June 11, focusing on tertiary and vocational training quality, graduates’ high unemployment rate, and the implementation of educational and textbook renovation.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has issued a circular offering tuition fee reductions for students of many majors, including the traditional arts and useful health research.

A Vietnamese student will represent Vietnam for the second time at the finale of a Microsoft-backed information technology contest that will take place in the U.S. next month.

The on-going tension on the East Sea following China's illegal placement of an oil rig inside Vietnam's exclusive economic zone has been included into this year’s high school graduation literature exam.

More and more students are opting to choose senior high school instead of vocational school in HCM City as enrollment continues to drop for the 2014-15 academic year.

The headmaster of Hanoi Law University, Phan Chi Hieu, said that the university is preparing a plan to open an international marine law faculty for submission to the Ministry of Education and Training this year.

Vietnam National University (VNU) – Hanoi remained the country’s top university based on the latest rankings released by QS (Quacquarelli Symond), leading two other Vietnamese schools in the list of Asia’s best universities.

All eight Vietnamese students have won prizes at the 15^th Asian Physics Olympiad (AphO 2014) in Singapore, according to the Department for Testing and Education Quality Accreditation under Ministry of Education and Training.

The National Key Lab of Digital Control and System Engineering (DCSELAB) of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology has recently produced a 3D scanner with a lower cost and more efficient features compared with imported machines.

The Vietnamese government has chosen May 18 as National Science-Technology Day, which honors significant contributions in the field of science.

Many universities in Vietnam are trying by all means to attract lecturers with doctorate degrees to meet the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET)’s quotas to open new departments or reopen closed ones.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) held a ceremony in Hanoi on May 9 to meet with 16 Vietnamese students who will attend the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2014) in the US, from May 11-16.

For the students who attend Quan Hoa Junior and High School located in central Vietnam's Thanh Hoa Province, going to school is just half the battle.

Domestic investors are seeing great opportunities to dominate the international education market in Vietnam.

Even though there have been many warnings about redundancy in the fields of finance and banking, students continue to apply to these departments for the upcoming university entrance exams.

Universities in Vietnam are racing to recruit permanent instructors with doctorates in order to avoid an enrollment ban by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), with many schools offering cash in addition to many other benefits, including the right to become the co-owners of the institutions, to their prospective candidates.

Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor and Vietnamese physicist Phan Bao Ngoc are answering questions on the universe and life outside our Mother Earth from Vietnamese science-lovers during an online chat hosted by Tuoi Tre in the coastal city of Quy Nhon.

Campus France - the French national agency for the promotion of higher education, international student services, and international mobility - held a Vietnam Day in Paris on April 24 to provide an overview of Vietnam’s university system and the students’ demand for training. 

On the weekly television show 'People ask, ministers answer', the Minister of Education and Training, Pham Vu Luan, said that widely-reported VND34 trillion (USD1.61 billion) price tag for a new education reform plan was a mistake.

Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan has suggested the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organisation’s Regional Language Centre (SEAMEO RELC) improves the professional skills of English teachers in Vietnam. 

The Ministry of Education and Training is considering a plan to spend VND34 trillion (USD1.61 billion) on reforming textbooks and curriculum for general education.

Two Vietnamese female students from a Ho Chi Minh City university will compete in the final round of a global energy contest in Paris in June after they beat rivals from eight East Asian countries and territories in the regional round last week.

Eight Vietnamese students will compete at the 15th Asian Physics Olympiad 2014 (AphO) in Singapore from May 11-15, according to the Department for Testing and Education Quality Accreditation under Ministry of Education and Training.

President Truong Tan Sang on April 3 inspected the progress of the Vietnam-Japan University project in the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park in the west of Hanoi.

The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi and the Lao capital of Vientiane have outlined an educational cooperation programme in the coming years, including increasing visit exchanges to share experience in teaching and management.

Many high-schools in HCM City have announced that current teaching programmes do not address the real needs of students.

Several education experts said that the high unemployment rate among university graduates was warned about ten years ago, but the government has seemed to ignore it.

The “Energy Bank” idea by Nguyen Thi Thuy Duong and Dang Mai Anh from Ho Chi Minh City Foreign Trade University has recently won the national round of a global energy contest and the two will compete at the East Asia regional semi-final next month. 

Struggling with learning a foreign language? Talk to this young Vietnamese man who is proficient in English, Italian, Spanish, and French and can read the news in Chinese, German, Russian, and Portuguese at the tender age of 24.    

The UK-based Westminster Kingsway College will implement a British Council-sponsored project at Vietnam’s Kien Giang Vocational College to improve students’ vocational skills.

The 1988 battle against Chinese forces on Gac Ma Island, part of Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago in the East Sea, in which 64 Vietnamese naval soldiers were killed, should be included in textbooks, two historians have suggested.

More than 100 high school students joined a trip last weekend to the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute, located in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, to get hands-on experience as nuclear engineers.

German companies are ready to help Hanoi develop quality human resources to meet its socio-economic development tasks.

A teacher from the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School, Vu Quoc Lich, pointed out some of the reasons many students are turning away from social subjects, a trend that has been underway for many years.

The New Zealand Embassy is calling for Vietnamese applications for 30 full scholarships to study for master’s and doctorate degrees in the Australasian country, starting in 2015.

More than 100 high school students joined a trip last weekend to the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute, located in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, to get hands-on experience as nuclear engineers.

Vietnamese high school students will have to take four subjects in order to graduate, a decision which some say will strike a death blow to the subject of history.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on February 25 chaired the second meeting of the National Council on Education and Human Resources Development in Hanoi.

Rector of the Hanoi University of Science Nguyen Van Noi talks to the Vietnam News Agency about the preparations for the 46th International Chemistry Olympiad, which will be organised in Vietnam this July. 

Only 31 out of over 400 universities and colleges across Vietnam have sent plans to organise independent entrance exams.

The Australian government is accepting applications from Vietnamese candidates for its Australia Awards Scholarships, with up to 175 such grants to be available in 2014, to study in master’s or PhD programs of the 2015 intake at prestigious Australian universities

Vietnamese students are scheduled to begin their campaign at a fuel-efficient car design competition in the Philippines on Friday.

The director of the Ministry of Education and Training's Higher Education Department, Bui Anh Tuan,said that the recent suspension of new admissions for 207 university courses was aimed at increasing the quality of education.

Hundreds of Vietnamese students will be sent abroad for training in nuclear power courses as a preparation for the operation of Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Plants 1 & 2, set to be operational by 2020.

President Truong Tan Sang has asked Ha Noi Law University to actively work to become the nation's leading institution in training legal professionals.

Even though students in Vietnamese schools in are allowed to choose among five foreign languages, English has attracted the majority of learners at the expense of other languages.

National defense and security will become curriculum subjects at Vietnamese high schools, vocational schools, and higher education institutions as from next year, according to a local law.

The Ministry of Education and Training is calling for applications from Vietnamese candidates for ten scholarships to study in undergraduate and graduate programs in India next year.  

The Ho Chi Minh City high-tech park management has submitted a proposal for the development of a massive science and technology project worth US$1 billion to the local government for approval.

Japan is set to provide US$853,211 in aid to fund education, health, and water supply projects in Vietnam under agreements signed on Tuesday in Ho Chi Minh City.

Even though the Ministry of Education and Training has agreed to let universities hold their own entrance exams next year, many universities expressed reluctance.

The English skills of many domestic teachers in Vietnam still fail to meet requirements, though a national foreign language scheme has been in place for three years.

Many Vietnamese students remain passive in their studies and hesitant to speak during class, one expert said.

The low training quality, the lack of students and the huge bank debts that schools have incurred--after throwing money into land and investment deals, would all drive a lot of universities to death.

Australia’s leading healthcare company Sanofi has announced its program of cooperation with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Society of Endocrinology - Diabetes Vietnam (VADE) to control diabetes in Vietnam.

Vietnamese students surprised the world with their high rankings in science and maths in a report on global education in their first inclusion into the survey, according to the deputy minister of Education and Training, Nguyen Minh Hien.

Asian nations cemented their top positions in an eagerly awaited report on global education on Tuesday, as their students continued to outshine Western counterparts in maths, science and reading.

High school teachers in Vietnam have shown a lack of enthusiasm for their own further studies, as they lack of motivation and are overwhelmed by administrative tasks, one teacher said.

Eighty five Vietnamese students will attend the 18^th World Festival of Youth and Students in Ecuador from December 7-12.

Ho Chi Minh City school students will have 16 days off, starting January 25, during the upcoming Tet holiday, according to the municipal Department of Education and Training.

A private university in Hanoi has been found using fake documents to enroll 145 students who would not have been qualified because they were unable to attract enough students during the entrance exams.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training is calling for applications from local students for full scholarships to study for a degree at the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and Singapore Management University, starting next year.  

“I want to provide them with a pathway to a life with more opportunities,” Pham Dang Mai Linh talked of her goal to work with hearing-impaired students at a school in the Central Highlands. Linh, 34, has taught the deaf students to take pictures, shoot videos, and log on Facebook as a means of taking away the low self-esteem from them.

The HCM City's Department of Education and Training said they would prefer virtual flowers and e-cards over fresh flower and gifts on Vietnamese Teachers' Day on November 20.

Russian Education and Science Minister Livanov Dmitryi Victorovich has expressed his country’s willingness to welcome more Vietnamese students at its tertiary education institutions.

A Ho Chi Minh City university inaugurated Wednesday a simulated stock exchange room, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

A lecturer has filed a lawsuit against a Ho Chi Minh City junior college, alleging it had miscalculated his salary and unilaterally terminated his contract, amidst further accusations by his colleagues that the school circumvented a ministry regulation on faculty to enroll students.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has not yet accredited the doctoral programs – which use Vietnamese translations for English instructions – two Vietnamese universities run in cooperation with a Philippine university, a MoET official has confirmed.

As many as 144 students of 48 teams from Robotics clubs across the country will attend the 2013 National Robothon Competition in Danang city as of November 11.

Vietnam and Australia will encourage meetings and cooperation on education between their government agencies, education institutions, and research organisations.

According to a newly-issued decree, the maximum fine for students and teachers who violate exam regulations could be as high as VND50 million (USD2,400).

Vietnamese students who study abroad are vulnerable to fraud related to the theft of personal information, with the latest incident involving a junior at a Dutch university.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to revoke a doctorate degree granted to Hoang Xuan Que, Deputy Head of the Finance & Banking Institute under the National Economics University.

As part of the national strategy on vocational training development, the HCM City authorities aim to improve facilities and teaching at 14 selected schools.

Almost 70 Canadian institutions will join the 2013 Canada Education Week, to be held in Vietnam from October 13 to 19.

Vietnam should renew its attitude towards education and education management so it could train teachers with intellectual skills and creativity, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said in Hanoi yesterday

Nearly 90 American universities and colleges will arrive in Vietnam for the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) overseas study exhibitions in HCM City (October 6), Hanoi (October 8), and Da Nang (October 10).

A seminar on the UK-Vietnam cooperation in education and training was held in Hanoi on September 30 within the framework of the UK’s Great Week in Vietnam.

The private university system is potentially facing its end under the current policies, said the experts at a conference about private universities held in Hanoi on September 26.

Education experts have proposed significant changes across the board for Vietnamese education, including ending the university entrance exams and lowering the number of subjects on the school curriculum.

Many public universities in Vietnam are trying various measures to attract good lecturers, such as offering incentives in the form of higher wages or cheaper housing.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan on September 16 toured a number of universities in Moscow to examine the possibility of increasing cooperation in various areas, especially education, science and technology.

Cao Thi Thanh Huyen’s business project named “Financial products for children” was among the 35 selected ideas, out of 1,100 submitted projects, to take part in the GESS competition in Munich this year.

The Global Civic Sharing (GCS) organisation and the Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd (SLI) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) will provide computers worth over 1.3 million USD in total for 40 secondary schools in Hanoi and its nearby provinces in a five-year period.

Odon Vallet scholarships worth a total of VND3 billion (US$142,000) were awarded to 390 outstanding students in southern provinces on Friday by the Rencontre du Vietnam (Meet Vietnam) Organisation in HCM City.

A Vietnamese chemist has followed a worldwide trend for massive open online courses (MOOCs) by opening an online school to offer free education to Vietnamese last weekend.

The Canadian diplomatic mission in Vietnam launched Monday an educational competition for Vietnamese high school students as part of the celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Vietnam.

Many private universities in Vietnam are struggling enroll students and claim that they should get government funding as public schools do.

Two high-quality universities: The University of Science and Technology of Hanoi and Vietnam-Germany University, may be permitted to charge tuition fees of USD5,000 per year.

Three sisters have made history in Vietnam by becoming probably the first triplets to make their way into the same top-tier local medical school.

Two Nobel laureates had an online exchange with Tuoi Trereaders on Tuesday, with the participation of the director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and a Vietnamese who is working for the US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the 9thedition of the annual Meeting Vietnam conferences.

A Korean language teaching programme will be broadcast on VTV2 channel of Vietnam Television (VTV) starting from August 12, as a follow-up of the first part aired last year. 

Even though hundreds of students attained very high marks in Hanoi Medical University entrance exams, they still might not be accepted at the university.

A young man from Hanoi’s outskirts who came first in his university entrance exam wishes to delay his mandatory military service to continue his studies but has met with opposition.

The Director of the General Department for Vocational Training, Duong Duc Lan, has welcomed revisions to Vietnam's Law on Vocational Training, saying they will improve the quality of the workforce.

At a meeting to discuss ways to improve the education system in Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Doan, Vice State President, urged that comprehensive scrutiny of Vietnam's education system was needed.

As many as 1,660 English language teachers at secondary and high schools nationwide will undergo further training to sharpen their English teaching skills this year.

The Ministry of Education and Training will carry out an English teacher quality assessment at colleges and universities nationwide in September.

The use of computer-assisted language teaching, particularly on mobile devices, has enabled students to be more interactive and creative in their study of English, education experts said at a conference held in HCM City last Sunday.

The University of Sciences, under Thai Nguyen University, has rendered null 731 copies of university diplomas because of spelling errors.

Japan will provide US$3.3 million in non-refundable aid for Vietnam within the framework of the Japan Human Resource Development Scholarships (JDS) project in the 2014-2017 period.

All five Vietnamese students got medals, including two golds, at the 2013 International Physics Olympiad in Denmark from July 5-15, the Ministry of Education and Training said. 

Vietnamese Heroic Mothers will receive bonus points if they participate in university entrance exams, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

A US nonprofit has honored two Vietnamese professors for their outstanding work in math and physics.

Vietnamese contestants bagged seven vocational certificates of excellence in the week-long 42nd Worldskills Competition, which commenced on July 2 in Leipzig, Germany. 

“I want to become an IT engineer, no matter how hard it is, so that at least I can return to my village and teach computer courses to the kids there,” a very special college applicant toldTuoi Tre on Thursday before he took his college admission tests.

Over 800,000 Vietnamese students took standardized tests prepared by the Ministry of Education and Training to gain admission to the college of their choice on July 4 and 5. An equal number of candidates will do similar tests on July 9 and 10.

Vietnam has sent 13 vocational students to the 42nd Worldskills Competition, which commenced on July 2 in Leipzig, Germany.

More than 800,000 high school graduates nationwide sat for the first wave of university entrance examination on July 4.

Have you ever seen the military get involved in a college admission exam? If the answer is no, your first experience should be here in Vietnam, where three armored vehicles were deployed Wednesday to transport candidates and their relatives to exam centers in a northern province to finalize their registration.

Hanoi high school students are resorting to spiritual elements in the hope of increasing their chances at the upcoming national college admission exams.

Vietnam will not allow the establishment of new junior colleges and universities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City between 2016 and 2020, according to a government decision issued late last month.

House renting fees are skyrocketing in Hanoi as it is only a couple of days away from the opening of the national university entrance exam.

The Ministry of Education and Training awarded Director of the British Council in Vietnam Robin Rickard a medal on June 19 in Hanoi.

Nearly one thousand of students at a training centre for university entrance exams in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District are instructed to learn sample literary essays to prepare for their upcoming exam.

Vietnam will start teaching corruption prevention to high school students in the next school year, according to the government’s portal.

An American nonprofit organized on Sunday morning a workshop on study in the U.S. that was attended by over 100 Vietnamese students who are seeking opportunities to enroll in undergraduate and graduate programs at U.S. colleges.

Under a newly issued directive by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, corruption prevention measures will be taught at educational and training facilities from the 2013-2014 academic year. 

Many proctors face punishment after videos showing candidates cheating during the 2013 national high school graduation exam at a high school in Hanoi were sent to the local Department of Education and Training.

Hanoi education authorities have given warnings to many proctors and exam council executives for ignoring cheatingduring the 2013 national high school exam at a local high school, the local Department of Education and Training said Thursday.

Nguyen Thuy Tien and 10 other students from developing countries have received the World Deaf Leadership (WDL) Scholarship from the US Gallaudet University.

Several more colleges and universities across Vietnam have been recently fined for failing to comply with regulations on joint training programmes

Two universities that were set up under a plan to build international standardised education institutions still have to temporarily rent infrastructure, an inspection has found.

Students from four Vietnamese universities will form six teams to take part in the 2013 Shell Eco-marathon Asia this July in Malaysia.

US consul Le Thanh An was among the guests attending a graduation ceremony in Binh Duong province on Sunday when 20 students of the second MBA joint training program between Binh Duong University and Benedictine University in the US were conferred degrees.

A student was dismissed from a university for life for beating a teacher with intent to rob his luxury Rolex watch and other valuable assets.

Vietnamese is the latest language added to the list of second foreign languages South Korean students may choose to sit during their university entrance exam, starting the 2013 – 2014 academic year.

The government should take measures to clear away substandard universities, one National Assembly agency said.

Vietnam hopes to have 60 scientific research organisations of regional and international stature by 2020.

Born with cerebral palsy, a brain disorder that affects a person’s ability to move and maintain balance and posture, Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao, from a central Vietnamese province, has never lost his hope of building a better future on education.

The launch of the first Hindi – Vietnamese dictionary has been kicked off at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) under Vietnam National University.

Despite fines, many Vietnamese schools continue to defy the education ministry by offering unauthorized bachelor or vocational joint programs.

A university in Khanh Hoa Province has been found to have worked with a college in HCM City to illegally enrol students for a continuous training programme.

Ho Chi Minh City 12th graders are cramming for their high school graduation exam in June, the second most important event in their school life after the college entrance test.

All five members of the Vietnamese team won medals, including one gold, one silver, and three bronzes, at the 2013 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad, held by Singapore earlier this month.

Disadvantaged children and their demands for education have drawn the attention of many delegates at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on May 21.

Several underprivileged students in HCM City have been forced into the role of domestic help for their landlords after being provided with free or discounted accommodation.

A recent request that press agencies must report exam cheating to local authorities before publishing stories has been widely rejected.

A large number of reference books with inaccurate information on Vietnamese history, geography and culture, are stirring up public concerns over their negative impacts on children.

Vietnam and the German State of Hessen will work hard together to make the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) a high quality educational centre in the country and region.

A Southeast Asian intergovernmental organization and Japan’s education ministry are calling for entries for an award given to promote sustainable development in education.

The government has just approved a plan to lift 1.2 million people between the ages of 15 and 60 out of illiteracy between now and 2020.

The Vietnamese team won two gold medals at the 14th Asian Physics Olympiad (AphO) that concluded Monday in Indonesia, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino signed a law Wednesday giving children three extra years of schooling, one of his key reforms aimed at lifting the country out of poverty.

Parents when choosing schools for children are always careful because the “educational environment decides a person”. A school with professional teachers, a comprehensive curriculum and strong leadership helps creat “the product” that is a valuable and contributing citizen for society. 

Nguyen Duong Kim Hao, 12, was awarded the gold prize for his smart control panel by the Korea Invention Academy at the International Invention,  Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX) 2013, held in Malaysia on May 11th.

A Vietnamese graduate student has won a top award at a US university for her academic excellence.

After more than two decades since the first international school model appeared in Vietnam, parents gradually have more choices available in the search for an ideal learning environment for their children. However, many people are still concerned with the question: What is a true international school? How different is “the product” an international school can create?

Russia will grant 335 scholarships to Vietnamese undergraduate and post-graduate students in 2013.

Twelve Vietnamese students departed for the US May 10 to attend the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2013.

The school enrolment season started earlier in Quang Tri Province to enable many poor 12th-grade students to compete for free entrance to a vocational high school in Da Nang.

Many preschools in Ho Chi Minh City suffer from a lack of formally trained health workers, so vice principals and teachers must take charge, and thus allow even non-prescription medicine into their institutions.

Nguyen Van Long, an official from the Thanh Hoa Department of Education and Training believes that due to the scarcity of jobs, people are looking at other options rather than continuing tertiary education.

An Australian scholarship program is now open to Vietnamese applicants who wish to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia.

Vietnam should grant autonomy to higher education institutions if it wants to have world-class universities, two experts suggested in an online publication.

VietNamNet Bridge – Schools have been told to compile documents and have enough textbooks for teaching and learning by 2015. However, a lot of schools complain that the task is beyond their means.

The country should revise the 2006 Law on Vocational Training in order to get private sectors to invest more in this practice and attract more students to trade jobs, said Duong Duc Lan, Director of the General Department for Vocational Training.

The US government-funded Fulbright Program in Vietnam is accepting applications for its 2014 Vietnamese Scholar Program (VSP).

A high school in Ho Chi Minh City has become the first in Vietnam to apply 3D technology in the classroom to teach physics, chemistry, geography, biology, and technology to students on Wednesday.

As many as 130 disadvantaged Vietnamese students who have made outstanding achievements in study have been selected for scholarships in the second term of the 2012-2013 academic year.

Asia Foundation (US) presented scholarships to 70 poor female students in the southern province of An Giang on April 28.

The Ministry of Education and Training should consider restructuring the national education system by cutting basic education by three years, an education expert has suggested.

Vietnam’s education policy focus is regularly shifting from the right to education in general to the right to quality education.

The recent increase in crimes among young people, especially pupils and students, is a proven evidence of education failure, one education expert said.

Korean food and shopping group Lotte awarded Tuesday scholarships worth a total of US$9,900 to 33 Vietnamese junior and senior college students in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam will give many incentives to local students who pursue domestic undergraduate courses in nuclear energy, an education ministry official said at a conference in the Central Highlands last week.

Vietnam has supplied 750 scholarships to Laotians so far this year and thus become the number one grant provider in Laos.

One-thousand days since the idea of building mobile schools and provide computer education to children in rural areas struck Nguyen Van Hanh, five such institutions have been set up.

A mother in HCM City has denounced a local kindergarten teacher for using sleeping pills on her two-year-old child.

Large enterprises have been encouraged to increase their cooperation with education institutions to increase the expertise of the Vietnamese workforce.

Vietnamese students who want to study in the UK for more than six months will have to test negative for tuberculosis before they can secure a visa to the European kingdom.

Despite the debate over the use of Filipino English teachers in Ho Chi Minh City, local education officials have decided to hire them as part of a national English improvement project.

Study abroad is a dream of many students in Vietnam, but those at a Ho Chi Minh City university have had to refuse South Korean scholarships because of financial difficulties.

A cooperation agreement in hi-tech engineer training was signed in Ho Chi Minh City on April 8 by France’s Dasault Systèmes Group, the French Education Ministry and the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH).

The teaching of history has been slammed for years in Vietnam as K-12 students are forced to memorize everything from big events to trivial details. Many say history has thus become a burden for learners, as evidenced by a recent incident in which students at a Ho Chi Minh City high school tore exam outlines to pieces and shouted out in joy. 

A college lecturer in English slams the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) for suddenly checking local English teachers’ language command against a European framework, saying it is “unfair” and “arbitrary.”

Food shortage troubles remote school

Applicants to police and military colleges have surged this year, with the number of female candidates more than doubling, as graduates are ensured a job upon graduation amid Vietnam's attempts to lure young talents into its armed forces.

The prime minister has agreed to lower the current quota of 450 students for every 10,000 people to between 300 and 350 students by 2020, said a local official.

Private kindergartens have mushroomed in the new urban areas in Hanoi, but many offer low-quality services.

Many primary schools in HCM City face overcrowding because of the large number of children born in the lucky "Year of the Pig" (2007).

Students in Vietnam are increasingly opting for online university entrance exam training courses than going to exam training centres, according to local education experts.

Not all higher education institutions in Vietnam are willing to grant automatic admission to disadvantaged candidates even though the local education ministry says it is a must.

A college in central Vietnam conferred Thursday an honorary doctoral degree on a Thai visual artist for his contributions to cooperation between Vietnamese art colleges and their Thai partners.

Many parents have left sex education to teachers despite education authorities struggling on how to discuss the topic.

English learning and teaching have been a bone of contention for years in Vietnam as teacher qualifications and assessment methodologies are blamed for students’ failure to use the language in real life. These two issues are a major problem.

Members of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) hope to narrow the education gap by creating regional standards that set out the qualifications and degrees educators need, Viet Nam's Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan said Thursday as the organisation ended its 47th conference.

While many students show little interest in studying literature, educators have shown a discouragement and a lack of creativity in teaching the subject.

While universities and junior colleges report the high percentages of graduates who can find jobs, job centers and local labor departments have reported the increasingly high unemployment rate.

Unemployment rates high

Vietnam will do its utmost to increase the quality of education to a level available to people from other Southeast Asian nations.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to halt doctorate courses in 57 sectors at 27 universities and training institutions due to unqualified teaching staff.

The New Zealand government is recruiting Vietnamese candidates for 30 scholarships to study for a master’s or doctoral degree in the Australasian nation, with programs beginning early next year.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has ordered 27 higher learning institutions, including atomic energy and military academies, to shut down enrollments for 57 doctoral programs because they could not meet national requirements for faculty members.

The 47th Southeast Asian Minster of Education Council (SEAMEC) Conference will be held in Hanoi from March 19-23.

The editing and censorship of children's textbooks has come under recent scrutiny after certain 'mistakes' were caught in their content.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has decided to halt training in five fields at two private universities this year.

Two Vietnamese and Indonesian high school students have just won an international innovation contest which concluded in London early this month.

The Ministry of Education and Training will veto any plan on the set up of a new university from now to 2020, said Deputy Minister Bui Van Ga.

A domestic publishing house was compelled to recall a book meant for children of six years old because it contained the image of Chinese flag.

Private junior colleges and universities are on the verge of shutting down completely because they are suffering from a serious lack of applicants, unfairness, and power struggles, a former education minister complained.

Microsoft Vietnam launched Monday a program, the Intern to Microsoft Academy College Hires, to seek talented Vietnamese students for internships at the U.S. giant tech firm.

Educators shared their opinions on the shortcomings of textbooks which they said is too heavy with unnecessary lessons.

The Nihon Keizai newspaper is reporting the Japan Human Resource Society (JHRS) will help train Vietnamese civil servants who are candidates for leadership positions.

Banning students from distributing recordings or images revealing exam cheating is contrary to regulations in the Law on Denouncement, a government official said.

A newly-released Government decree designed to provide favourable treatment for teachers and educational officials in deprived areas is expected to encourage them to become more devoted to their careers.

Many private colleges and universities are facing the risk of closure due to failure to fill student quotas.

A university in the central city of Da Nang awarded Tuesday an honorary doctoral degree on a German doctor in recognition of his contributions to the healthcare sector in Vietnam.

A team of Vietnamese students from a London-based graduate school was awarded the first prize on Sunday at a virtual stock exchange competition organized in the UK by Vietnamese students there.

Public concern has been raised over a strict new regulation on military service for young men who have already qualified for university, as they believe it may stimulate corruption when people attempt to avoid their obligations.

The Viet Nam Bank for Social Policy will set aside VND45 trillion (US$2.16 billion) for a five-year lending programme for poor students from this year, according to its general director Duong Quyet Thang.

The World Bank (WB) in Vietnam and the Australia Agency for International Development (AusAID) on February 22 officially announced the five best projects to get their support for realising innovative learning programs in education and training.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Tran Quang Quy has controversially claimed that banning children under five from studying foreign teaching programmes at internationally-run nursery schools would help preserve Vietnamese culture.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training is receiving applications for 29 full scholarships to study undergraduate and graduate courses in China, starting from the 2013-14 academic year.

Starting this year, all preschool-age children from ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong will be taught Vietnamese before entering first grade, according to the provincial People’s Council.

The government has decided to lower tuition and provide exemptions for medical students for five majors to increase the skilled workforce in medical related professions.

Equality is a noble cause, but it is rarely achieved. Local educators are finding this out as there is a huge discrepancy in Tet bonuses ahead of the Lunar New Year.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has announced that universities and junior colleges will not be allowed to open additional training courses for finance, banking, business administration and accounting from this year.

There are very few job opportunities for new school graduates nowadays. A lot of young bachelors, including the ones with two or three university degrees, have to lay by their degrees in wardrobe and take the jobs as blue collar workers.

Universities are attempting to attract students for the 2013 academic year by lowering fees, opening new faculties, or scholarships.

A new school in Tan Minh Commune, Hoa Binh Province was inaugurated on January 28, under a public-private partnership between Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, local authorities and Boeing.

The Ministry of Education and Training will intensify management over foreign education institutions across the country this year.

Between 300 and 500 voluntary teachers from native English-speaking countries will come to Vietnam each year to work in schools following a landmark deal.

The Ministry of Education and Training’s (MoET) new regulation that allows students to bring tape-recorders and cameras in exams has caused concern.

The capital city of Hanoi will host the 46th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) from July 20-29 in 2014.

Candidates will be allowed to bring recording devices into exam rooms when they sit for national high school and college admission exams this year, the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) said during a tele-conference on Tuesday.

Several educators have said that the country’s teacher training methods remain a shamble.

Students are hiring stand-ins to represent them in lesson in the run-up to Tet.

Vietnamese students are being bored by their literature lessons due to uncreative teaching methods.

Viet Nam is planning to spend about VND52.3 billion (about US$2.5 million) on a nationwide school course in what to do in case of disaster.

Consultancy organisations for study abroad must deposit VND500 million (US$23,800) in a commercial bank to operate in Viet Nam, according to a regulation to come into effect on March 10.

Research in Vietnamese universities used to be considered either a way for students to experiment with theoretical knowledge they have gained in classes or a means to obtain a national prize. However, nowadays there is a tendency to conduct practical scientific research and use it to earn money by selling data to corporate companies.

The demand for temporary workers for the coming Tet (Lunar New Year) festival in HCM City has picked up over the last fortnight, giving students an opportunity to earn some money and gain valuable experience.

The city's Department of Education and Training has asked all schools to use appropriate methodology in courses that have instruction about the country's laws.

Ho Chi Minh City K-12 schools are worried over high fees and schoolwork overload following the local education department’s request that they should pilot a Cambridge University program this school year.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has asked public technical and vocational schools in the city to focus efforts this year on improving the quality of teaching as well as the English proficiency of their graduates.

The government recently approved a project worth VND340 billion (USD16.3 million) on education development until 2020.

Many students, especially those from big cities, are taking advantage of modern gadgets to cheat in exams.

Individuals, organisations and enterprises contributed over VND700 billion (USD33.5 million) to encourage increased studying in 2012.

The Embassy of Ireland in Hanoi is seeking Vietnamese candidates for up to 20 scholarships to study full-time master’s courses in the European country in the 2013-14 academic year.

Vietnam plans to teach business to K-12 students from the next school year, which starts in September, the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) said Tuesday at a conference in Hanoi.

The British Council in Vietnam launched a competition on Tuesday, titled “UK in My Eyes,” which gives participants a chance to share their own stories and images about the United Kingdom.

A pilot programme for business courses in high schools will start during the 2013-2014 school year, said the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET).

The new standards for general education accreditation applied as of January 2013 have made schools puzzled, because they don’t know what they have to do to be recognised as the national standard schools.

The national science and technology contest for high school students has come under fire from experts, who doubt the scheme's ability to improve the quality of curricular subjects as the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) expected.

Vietnam won two silver medals in its first-time participation in the 2012 World Physics Olympiad (WoPhO), which concluded Thursday in Indonesia.

Vietnam will have about 3,000 vocational teachers who meet the quality standards set by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by 2015, a Government meeting heard on Wednesday.

Several schools in HCM City have leased their land for shops and parking, facing protests from parents.

Many students in Vietnam complain that they learn little more than how to clean offices and make tea during their probation with companies.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has stated that it would restructure the training establishment network and stop the “university bubble.”

Hundreds of teachers in HCM City have taken on the job of psychologists because of a serious shortage of properly trained people in the field.

Japan has agreed to send experts to Vietnam to help improve the quality of vocational training.

Many Vietnamese have difficulty in using their mother tongue because the teaching of the language has been ignored at most universities, a college lecturer said in an exclusive article for Tuoi Tre.

A Ho Chi Minh City school recently sent a second-grader to the police station without a guardian, which is against the law, since it suspected the girl of stealing over VND1 million (US$48) from her teacher, who later found out the money was actually intact inside her bag.

A Da Nang university has surprised its students by suddenly hiking fees for repeated courses in a bid, an official says, to encourage them to study harder.

The State played a vital regulation role in ensuring education quality and equality, a national workshop heard on Wednesday.

Many K-12 students have to be content with cramped classrooms after the builders of three new state schools in the central province of Quang Ngai have fled, leaving the construction unfinished for a long time.

A paradox has been existing in the labor market: a lot of university graduates cannot find jobs, while businesses still lack workers because the candidates cannot meet their requirements.

Facing student shortages after university entrance exams, private education institutes have continued to express their disagreement with government policies.

The Ministry of Education and Training has banned schools and universities from hosting or co-organising Miss Teen and other beauty contests for students.

Vietnam will have 13,000 graduates in finance-banking who cannot secure a job in the next four years, according to a report cited last month by the Ministry of Finance.

Vietnam will ban higher learning schools from adding finance-banking, business administration, and accounting majors to their current training programs, starting next year, according to the education ministry.

After denying news that it is holding a Miss Teen contest, the education ministry has now banned schools from organizing or co-organizing any beauty contest for their students.

The Vietnamese and Lao Finance Ministries jointly held a ceremony on December 17 to inaugurate a project to upgrade the Northern Laos Financial College in Luang Prabang province.

Jessica Kornfeld sat down with her son and daughter after school on Friday and shared with them the unthinkable, horrific news out of Connecticut: Someone had stormed into an elementary school and killed children nearly their same age.

Educators have urged higher-education institutes in Vietnam to use the student assessment from the ASEAN University Network (AUN) to improve the quality of training.

The Hanoi-based National University of Economics has been found to have illegally collected fees worth more than VND51 billion ($2.4 million) from its students.

Following Ho Chi Minh City’s footsteps, two neighboring provinces, Binh Duong and Dong Nai, consider recruiting Filipinos to teach English at K-12 public schools.

The Vietnam Institute for Vietnamese Martial Arts and Sports Research and Development is the first one in Vietnam which has successfully weaned off games addictions for children of school age.

Ireland will increase scholarships for Vietnamese students to attend master courses in the Northwestern Europe country to 40 per year.

Amid a serious lack of scientists, experts have proposed that the government should work out a regulation to foster training.

Students who study nuclear power at domestic universities will now have their tuition and accommodation fees waived, thanks to the Government's recent draft decision.

The Vietnamese government has issued a draft regulation to encourage foreign scientists and experts and Vietnamese scientists living abroad to participate in scientific research and the transfer of new technology at local universities.

Municipal authorities requested a freeze on the bank account of the Singaporean owned Melior Vietnam Company in HCM City after their school closed suddenly, leaving students in shock.

Children in My Yen Commune, Thai Nguyen Province, have 10 new classrooms as a result of a project jointly funded by local authorities and the Boeing Company.

Ho Chi Minh City universities and junior colleges have started taking strong measures against students who fail to pay tuition on time.

Many modern parents coddle their children, creating disruption in the classroom and problems for other children.

The Japanese Business Association in Vietnam and the Japanese Economic Association on December 3 awarded 24 scholarships, worth US$200 each, to outstanding students of Hue University in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

While Vietnamese teachers are complaining about their low pay, an old woman continues teaching for free in the Mekong Delta.

Applications for the Singaporean Dr Goh Keng Swee (GKS) Scholarship program are now open to candidates from Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar.

Many graduates with excellent degrees continue to fail to find jobs due to a lack of vocational skills.

A language school in Hanoi has said they did not lock in and force a Filipino female teacher to wear sexy clothes in class following a recent report from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

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HCM CITY – Ha Thi Hiep, mother of 10th grader Truong Thi Minh Thu, has observed a distinct change in her daughter in recent months.

Hundreds of Ho Chi Minh City students have been left scratching their heads for more than a week as a training agency under the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts suddenly ceased operations, explaining that it had had its seal withdrawn by the parent school.

Imitation, not creativeness, is the thing Vietnamese teachers require on their students when they teach how to write compositions. The traditional teaching method has been facing the heavy criticism from parents and radical educational experts.

Increasing numbers of Vietnamese are taking MA studies to progress in their careers. However, the quality of the courses is in doubt.

While Vietnamese students feel excited with the new teaching method applied by foreign teachers, their parents, who have generation differences with their children, have expressed their worry that the new method may do more harm than good.

An art gala for the 11th LSE Show was held at the Old Theatre by Vietnamese students from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, drawing the participation of Vietnamese students across the UK.

HA NOI – This year vocational training schools are facing declining enrolment numbers due to fierce competition from universities, who are opening their own vocational schools and extending the enrolment season in order to attract more students, the General Department of Vocational Training has said.

Several Vietnamese teachers have found fame on social networks thanks to their great innovations and contributions at work.