Vietnam is expected to reduce the number of educational institutions nationwide by more than half under an ongoing school restructuring plan, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong said at a conference on August 27.

The number of Vietnamese students studying in New Zealand rose sharply in 2025, according to Education New Zealand. About 87% of Vietnamese student visa applications were approved, well above the global average.

Hanoi is piloting an emotional intelligence (EQ) competency framework at nine schools in 2026, with the initiative designed to support students’ development and help build safer, happier schools.

Canva is offering its AI-powered teaching and lesson-design tools free to teachers and students across Vietnam, while more than 30,000 educators will receive AI training by year-end.

HCM City will welcome more than 2.62 million students in 2026-2027, up over 96,000, as its education system grapples with shortages while shifting away from exam-driven teaching.

Tran Ky Anh balanced a perfect 4.0 GPA with research, entrepreneurship contests and MC work, proving to himself that academic success extends far beyond textbooks.

School sizes may expand significantly following mergers and re-organizations, so effective and seamless operation can occur only when the principals' management capacity scales alongside school size.

Having chosen a new university major because he wanted to combine business and technology, Nguyen Duc Thanh never imagined that 4 years later he would graduate as the program's valedictorian and earn opportunities to conduct international research.

As AI transforms how art is created and taught, Vietnamese educators are seeking ways to embrace the technology without sacrificing cultural identity, human emotion and real-world experience.

Five ministry-run universities and 12 vocational institutions could be cut under a restructuring plan being developed by Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training.

She entered Hanoi Medical University with a score just high enough for admission. Six years later, Nguyen Minh Hien is leaving as the university’s top graduating student.

The University of Science in HCMC is welcoming an accomplished freshman class featuring Olympiad medalists, top exam scorers and televised academic competition stars.

Seventeen students have graduated from Vietnam’s National Economics University with perfect 4.0 GPAs, while more than half of this year’s graduates earned the highest academic classification - both records for the university.

Majors related to technology have exceptionally high admission scores in 2026, with one university requiring the equivalent of a perfect 30/30.

Once avoided by children who called him “snake boy,” Nguyen Dinh Vuong is now 24 and preparing to begin university life in Da Nang.

Vietnam will roll out AI education nationwide from the 2026-2027 academic year under a new framework issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Vietnam is considering dropping the third subject from public high school entrance exams, a move that could ease pressure and costs but is also raising concerns that students may neglect subjects that no longer determine admission.

Vietnam’s education ministry is seeking public feedback on a proposal that would make English a compulsory first foreign language from Grade 1, as the country moves toward making it a second language in schools.

School students will receive 12 periods of artificial intelligence (AI) education each academic year under a framework recently issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.

At the main campus of HCMC University of Education, the admission scores for its 15 teacher education majors ranged from 23.26 to 29.83/30 points.