First Lady of the Republic of Korea Kim Jung-sook has received 15 Vietnamese students in the presidential Blue House ahead of her husband President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Vietnam slated for March 22 – 24.

 Professor Le Kim Long, former dean of the Education University, talks to the newspaper Kinh Te & Do Thi on the need to end the policy of free tuition for students at public teacher training institutions.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited the Australian National University (ANU), one of the world’s top ten research universities, right after his arrival in Canberra on March 14 (local time). 

 Five Vietnamese universities have been listed in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings, an annually issued rating which provides an insight into the region's 400 leading institutions.

 Lawmakers should reconsider the feasibility of a draft regulation asking primary school teachers to have university diplomas given that up to 40 per cent of primary teachers currently fail to meet this requirement.

 Nearly 200 delegates from 55 domestic and foreign universities are participating in the 2018 CDIO Asian Regional Meeting in the central city of Da Nang from March 12-14 to boost cooperation in technical training.

 GreenAms Robotics Team 6520 of the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted are showing their talents in making robots at the First Robotics Competition which began in Sydney city, Australia, on March 12. 

 Like many other countries, Vietnam is entering the fourth industrial revolution with many opportunities and challenges, of which, the most challenging thing is human resources. 

The Ministry of Education and Training is expecting the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to continue their technical and financial support for Vietnamese higher educational projects.

Collaboration across industry, academia and government is needed to both retrain the existing workforce and better prepare the next generation of graduates from secondary schools and universities to achieve optimal success with the Industry 4.0.

 Ninety-five people have been removed from the list of newly-appointed professors and associate professors that was announced in early February.

 The property developer Vingroup has officially announced its plan to join in the field of higher education by establishing VinUni University (VinUni).

A delegation of educators from ASEAN of the European Union’s Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region programme visited Hue University to conduct institutional assessments on March 1.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has sought approval from the People’s Committee for piloting a “smart schools” programme based extensively on IT use in management and communication between schools and students’ families. 

 Five Vietnamese students have completed an agricultural MSc programme, the third course, carried out under cooperation between the Arava International Centre for Agriculture Training (AICAT) and Tel Aviv University (TAU) of Israel.

 Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has approved the award of a certificate of merit to Do Van Bang, a student in Soc Trang province who returned a lost wallet with a large amount of cash to its owner. 

 Teachers in the mountainous areas of Quang Tri Province visit every household to persuade pupils to go to school after Tet Holiday, and this year, they are also giving out lucky money as motivation and support.

The Ministry of Education will allow universities to set admission quotas and take into account the number of visiting lecturers they’ll have based on the number of admitted students.

 There will be more than 40,260 redundant teachers when the new national curriculum for general education is implemented from 2019, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

As per a report of the Out-of-school Children: Vietnam Country Study 2016 conducted by the Ministry of Education and Training and the UNICEF, drop-out rates of children aged 5-14 fell drastically.