UNESCO’s statistics indicates that the number of students sent overseas by the Vietnamese government amounts to tens of thousands.

Three Vietnamese students have become famous in the southern Finnish town of Sulkava as they have conquered taste buds of the Finnish people through delicious Vietnamese salt coffee, a treat originating from the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Vietnamese students made up the fifth largest group of foreign students in the United States for the 2022/23 academic year, according to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) annual Open Doors report.

Nine high schools in Gyeongbuk province of the Republic of Korea (RoK) have begun enrolling 65 students from Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and Mongolia.

All Vietnamese trainees in southern Israel are safe and they have gone back to school, according to the director of a training centre where they are studying.

Around 40,000 Vietnamese people go abroad to study each year, a 2.5-fold increase compared to the figure before 2013.

The number of Vietnamese students in the Republic of Korea (RoK) ranks second, behind China, with 37,490 students as of April 1, according to statistics released by the Korea Educational Development Institute (KEDI).

More than 200 Vietnamese students from universities across the UK took part in The Leader Camp 2023, an annual event organised by the Vietnamese Student Association in the UK (SVUK).

Vietnam maintains as the second leading country of origin for international students studying at US community colleges.

The Minister of Education and Training and a Vietnamese delegation on September 19 attended the Education Summit in New York City chaired by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, with representatives from 200 countries and territories.

Nguyen Tri Hai, 29, thought that he just needed to find a good professor and a lab to have a future. However, he had no work to publish after two years of research.

Duong Tran Anh Duy has been hired at the US Naval Academy to work as an Assistant Professor of the Mathematics and Sciences Faculty. He will begin working on January 3, 2023.

Bui Thị Thanh Linh decided to use up all the savings she got from four years of working to buy a land plot, which ultimately allowed her to borrow enough money to study abroad. But her path was not an easy one.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many overseas Vietnamese students will not be able to return to Vietnam to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year holidays (Tet).

“I chose to stay in the UK, not because I can find a good job here, but I believe that I still need more time to accumulate experience and money before I return to Vietnam and do something bigger,” said Trinh Quang Vu.

Vietnam remains the sixth leading country of origin for all international higher education students in the US, with 21,631 students studying at American institutions in the academic year 2020-2021.

Vietnam has the second largest number of students in Japan, according to the latest statistics from the Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO).

Graduating from Harvard University with a master's degree in Public Policy, Tran Ha Duong said that he thought the prestigious school was “completely beyond my reach”.

As an excellent student at the Tran Phu High School for the Gifted in the northenr port city of Hai Phong, Hanh An thought she would study at an architecture or technology school. But she unexpectedly ‘drifted’ to Canada and then to the US.