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.

Nguyen Hoang Hai An, a 12th-grade student at Olympia Schools in Hanoi, has been accepted early to Swarthmore College - one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States - with a four-year financial aid package worth approximately USD 290,000.

Rising out of the rugged northern mountains, a new inter-level boarding school in Si Pa Phin (Điện Biên Province) is being hailed as a “5-star” campus in one of Vietnam’s most remote areas.

The Ministry of Education and Training proposes a cap on bonus points from IELTS certificates to ensure fairness in university admissions.

Doan Thai Minh, a 12th grade student majoring in English at Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted (Ninh Binh Province), was named the valedictorian in English at the national academic excellence competition.

Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the HCMC Department of Education and Training, said the city cannot abolish the public 10th grade entrance exam because infrastructure conditions still do not meet the demand.

Ten start-ups founded within Vietnamese universities have been selected for funding and incubation support under UniVentures, a regional innovation initiative led by BLOCK71 Vietnam in partnership with the Temasek Foundation.

After the Sago Food incident, education authorities demand stricter oversight of all semi-boarding lunch providers.

Experts say information technology (IT) continues to be one of the most in-demand and promising sectors, not only serving as the foundation for other industries but also determining competitiveness across fields.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) is proposing significant changes to university admissions policies in 2026, including a cap on bonus points awarded for IELTS and other international certificates.

A total of 33 teachers at To Hien Thanh High School are under scrutiny for changing students’ scores in major exams, raising ethical concerns across the education sector.

This is among several proposed changes to Vietnam’s university admissions regulations for the 2026 cycle, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Thousands of primary school students in Ho Chi Minh City have been left without mid-day meals after schools suspended lunch services in response to alarming reports of food safety violations by a school meal supplier.

Two names were recently chiseled off the PhD honor wall at Hanoi National University of Education 2, stirring debate over academic integrity.