Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW, signed by Party General Secretary To Lam on August 22, 2025, reaffirms education and training as the “top national priority” shaping the nation’s future, and stresses the need for deep, comprehensive reform.

While many parents worry that “loosening control” during the Tet holiday may cause children to lose momentum when returning to school, others argue that turning a few days of Tet into “extra classes” could backfire.

Professor Do Van Dai, Vice Rector of Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, has been awarded the title of Knight in the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques) by the French government.

This year’s Tet holiday lasts nine days, but for many families it is not a time for students to fully relax.

Many teachers believe it is not necessary to assign homework to students during the Tet holiday. Instead, children should be given the time and mental space to “learn” more about the nation’s traditional cultural values during Tet.

Instead of separate admission based on academic transcripts and high school graduation exam scores, the trend of combined admission has been chosen by many universities in recent years.

Phan Tri Dung graduated with outstanding honors from Nguyen Tat Thanh University under extraordinary circumstances. His father passed away just one month before his thesis defense, while his mother was undergoing treatment for a serious illness.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has announced a draft regulation on admission to universities and junior colleges with many notable new points.

After sweeping the valedictorian positions at two entrance exams to top schools, "prodigy" Bui Nhat Minh continues to shock the academic community by winning a First Prize in the National High School Student Exam despite being only in 10th grade.

Understanding that history is a subject that requires the ability to analyze and perceive issues, Chau Anh spent time researching each event deeply, becoming the first person in Lao Cai to win first prize in the national history competition.

Tran Vo Gia Bao, a student at Le Quy Don High School for the Gifted, has become the first contestant to secure a place in the final of Road to Olympia Year 26.

International students studying at Hanoi University showed great enthusiasm as they took part in traditional Tet activities such as making banh chung, rolling spring rolls and joining folk games.

Vietnam and Laos agree to establish a Vietnam University in Laos, focusing on science, education, technology and cultural studies to meet local needs.

Hanoi Medical University and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City have been named among the top 10 Vietnamese universities with the highest number of international scientific publications in 2025.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) will soon begin a nationwide English proficiency survey targeting schoolteachers, as part of a long-term plan to introduce English as a second language in Vietnamese schools.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau has confirmed that he will leave the University of Chicago after 15 years of teaching to join the University of Hong Kong (HKU), starting in June 2026.

On February 5, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training officially announced a series of new appointments and transfers involving school principals and vice principals at public high schools across the city.

A class at Hanoi’s Foreign Language Specialized High School has made headlines after two of its 11th-grade students achieved perfect 9.0 scores in their first-ever IELTS test.

Fourteen outstanding student teams have been selected to represent Vietnam at the 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship in the US, after a highly competitive national final round.

A student from Hung Nhan High School in Hung Yen province has secured the highest score in the first round of the 2026 thinking assessment test organized by Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), with an impressive 96.1 out of 100.