The emergency hotline at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in Hanoi earlier this summer received an urgent call from Lao Cai about a man seriously injured in a traffic accident who faced a high risk of death without emergency surgery.

Throughout 11 years managing the Biology gifted student team, Dr. Do Thi Thanh Huyen has helped her students secure 11 medals at international Olympiads and 112 national awards. She was recently honored with the 2026 Vietnam Women's Award.

Provincial Departments of Education and Training (DOET) nationwide will lead the development of standardized term-end tests for 5th, 9th, and 12th-grade students in graded subjects of their choosing.

Nguyen Phuong Anh, Le Ngoc Phuong Nhi, and Ha Vu Huyen Linh attended high school together, graduated with honors in medicine from Hanoi Medical University, and recently gained admission to the university’s prestigious medical residency program.

High coursework scores, assessment methods that fail to distinguish ability and AI-assisted assignments may be driving up the share of graduates with top honors, raising questions about universities' responsibility.

Two years after his 80-year-old father took him to a high school entrance exam, Nguyen Xuan Toan has won first prize and topped Hanoi's citywide English competition.

More than half of National Economics University's nearly 8,000 graduates in 2026 received the highest academic classification, raising questions about whether university grading standards are becoming too lenient.

Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training has clarified that schools are not required to terminate all partnership-based education programs. Whether a program can continue depends on its content, operating conditions and relevant regulations.

Despite holding two bachelor's degrees and senior leadership positions, South Korean executive Choi Chang Young has returned to university in Vietnam to pursue an MBA.

Ho Chi Minh City has reduced its public educational institutions by 32% under a sweeping restructuring plan, with 2,462 school administrators reassigned to teaching positions.

Vietnam will introduce a revised classification of university degree programs in 2027, covering economics, technology, medicine, engineering and teacher training, requiring institutions to review their academic offerings and admissions.

Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training has authorized lower and upper secondary schools to conduct periodic assessments on computers, provided they meet requirements for facilities, IT infrastructure, software and exam administration.

Vietnam will reorganize university majors from 2027, merging many specialized disciplines into broader categories, including languages, literature, performing arts and natural sciences.

Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training has instructed universities, academies and teacher-training colleges to expand foreign-language instruction across courses and degree programs currently taught in Vietnamese.

Dam Phuong Chi, a Business Chinese major, has graduated with honors from Foreign Trade University (FTU) with a GPA of 3.7/4.0. During her four years at university, she won four Chinese-language competitions.

With only two members in the family, the day Le Canh Hai entered university, his mother Sau decided to travel alone to Gia Lai to work as a hired farmhand. Despite hardships, she encouraged her son against dropping out. 

All four Vietnamese students won medals at the 2026 Al-Fergani International Physics Olympiad, securing one gold, two silvers and one bronze to place Vietnam fourth overall among 15 participating countries and territories.

Vietnam has around 100 teacher-training institutions, including about 65 universities and a number of colleges. All of them also offer non-pedagogical academic majors.

Vietnam will host the International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad in Da Nang in 2027, a first for Southeast Asia. National preliminary exams begin on October 18 to select students for the country's competing team.