As Ho Chi Minh City welcomes 40,000 new students, the city struggles to recruit enough teachers for its growing education system.

With 30 years of teaching math, Dr Tran Nam Dung shares his insights on how math education must evolve in the age of AI.

From post-war illiteracy to global integration, Vietnam’s education has undergone five transformative eras in 80 years.

Resolution 71 outlines bold goals for education by 2030, including international recruitment.

This year’s admissions cycle left both students and institutions overwhelmed as delays and procedural errors piled up.

Once finding chemistry "hard to grasp," Nguyen Thi Hong Men later became a chemistry major, and has now secured a master’s degree scholarship for study in Taiwan (China) while still in her third year, a feat she thought was "unbelievable.”

Associate Prof Ton Than, former Head of the Mathematics-Informatics Department of the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences, says that teacher training methods in mathematics studies remain inadequate and overly trend-driven.

The University of Science and Technology of Hanoi has announced a Talent Recruitment Program for 2025-2030, offering robust incentives to attract outstanding scientists.

The Ministry of Education confirms that technical errors in the 2025 university admissions were due to universities’ data input, not a system malfunction.

Students reported being denied admission despite meeting cutoff scores, as universities struggled with system errors and unclear policies.

Prof. Ustinov of Russia's MISiS will help shape Hanoi’s Quantum Technology Institute.

On behalf of the Politburo, General Secretary To Lam recently signed Resolution 71, marking a strategic breakthrough in Vietnam’s education and training development.

While winning hundreds of chess medals, Mai Khanh chose to pivot and focus entirely on academics, securing a full PhD scholarship in Australia before finishing university.

Nguyen Thi Tu Hoang, 62, becomes a freshman in Chinese language studies, proving it’s never too late to pursue knowledge.

Resolution 71 signals a historic shift, positioning education as the core of Vietnam’s development strategy.

The bonus point scheme and English certificate conversions have turned IELTS into a “golden ticket” when a student with a 27 on the high school graduation exam gets admitted to university while another with 29 points is rejected.

Experts have observed that cutoff scores this year are inconsistent among university admissions due to varying calculation and conversion methods, making it impossible to claim that 30 points at one school is “better” than 26 points at another.

Choosing to retake the university entrance exam after failing to get into her desired major, Hoai said she faced negative remarks.” Yet, this “step back” propelled her to become the valedictorian at a top university.

General Secretary To Lam signs Resolution No. 71 to drive comprehensive reform in education and training.

The University of Economics and Business (UEB) under the Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Faculty of Economics (FEP) under Portugal’s University of Porto will bolster multi-faceted cooperation under a freshly signed agreement.