The Vietnam-Japan University (VJU) signed an agreement with Japan’s ANA Holdings Co., Ltd to strengthen bilateral cooperation in training and research. 

 It comes as good news for many parents in HCMC when the municipal government says all children at public schools will be exempted from tuition fees up to the ninth grade, effective from this school year. 

 More than 30 New Zealand institutions will be present at the New Zealand Government’s agent-led education fairs in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi on September 22 and 23

 Hanoi capital city will include the two local heritage sites – the Thang Long imperial citadel and the Co Loa citadel relic – in the curriculum of local schools.

 The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has proposed to the Ministry of Finance to end tuition fees for secondary schools.

 More than 400 Vietnamese students from 51 universities across Russia gathered at the 2018 Obninsk Summer Camp, the third of its kind, held at Ivorga Recreation Park in Kaluga province on September 15-16.

 About 500 pupils are having to travel by boats through dangerous locations as early flooding damaged embankments and roads in the southern Dong Thap Province.

 About 40 universities of Vietnam and Russia signed 23 framework documents on cooperation in training and scientific research in Moscow, Russia, on September 7.

 The Vietnamese team to the 30th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2018) brought home four medals, the Ministry of Education and Training’s Department of Quality Management said on September 7.

 Many children from a village in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have to cross a local stream to school by plastic bags.

 Private higher education plays an important role in promoting human resource quality, however, policies to develop private universities still face obstacles. 

September 5 has long been considered the first day of the new academic year for Vietnamese pupils. The day reminds many people, especially the elderly, of a new school year back when the country faced tough times.

 More than 23 million students across the country, or one-fourth of the total population, started a new academic year on September 5.

 The Ho Chi Minh City-based Ton Duc Thang university received a certificate rating it as a four star institution in the UK QS ranking at the academic year opening ceremony on September 4.

 When the new school year starts, teachers in mountainous area of the northern Son La province have to traverse deep valleys and steep slopes to get to work.

 For a child, they say their schooldays are the best days of their lives. But for the parents, they are fast becoming the most expensive days of their lives.

 The Kien Giang University signed a cooperation pact, on Phu Quoc island on August 31, regarding training and scientific research with two Cambodian universities.

 Many classrooms in Thanh Hoa and Son La provinces have been ruined by heavy rains over the past two days.

Hanoi Department of Education and Training has proposed to allow two teachers per class due to the high number of pupils.     

Schools across the country will hold ceremonies to launch the 2018-2019 school year on September 5, the Ministry of Education and Training has requested.