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Experts condemn school violence

 Cameras should be installed in all school classrooms to supervise and prevent violence in schools, Colonel Phạm Mạnh Thường, deputy director of the Criminal Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security, has proposed.

Useful Vietnamese platform for e-learning introduced

 The e-learning platform Tesse, developed by 26-year-old Nguyen Pham Tuan Anh and partners, is one of the first Vietnamese platforms to allow the creation of virtual classes to upgrade knowledge of the community.

Vietnamese, Cambodian universities cooperate in training, research

 Kien Giang University of the southern province of the same name signed a memorandum of understanding on April 8 on training and research cooperation with Cambodia’s Royal University of Phnom Penh and Chea Sim University of Kamchaymear.

Universities talk technology, expertise transfer

 The Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) held a seminar entitled “Technological and knowledge transfer ecological system: opportunities and challenges” on April 8. 

Winners of English Champion 2019 named

 The final round of English Champion 2019 competition co-organized by IvyPrep Education and iSMART Education was held on April 7, naming five champions who are students from grades four to eight.

Textbook prices go up in academic year 2019-2020

 The Vietnam Education Publishing House has just announced a hike in textbook price in the academic year 2019-2020 which was approved by the Ministry of Finance.

HCM City-based university listed in University Impact Rankings 2019

 Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh City has become the only Vietnamese educational institution named in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019.

Prime Minister requests strict punishment for school violence

 At an annual governmental session yesterday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested a strict punishment for school violence following some cases in the country.

Teacher sacked for forcing pupil to eat jelly

 A teacher in Hung Yen Province has been sacked after punishing a 6th grader by demanding he eat 20 bags of jelly as a punishment.

Hanoi math contest wraps up

 The 16th Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition (HOMC) concluded on April 5 with an award presenting ceremony held in the capital city. 

Korean university grants scholarships to Vietnamese students

 The Incheon National University (INU) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and the Vietnamese Embassy signed a deal on scholarships for Vietnamese students on April 3.

University relocation plan stalls after 10 years

 A decade-long plan to relocate several universities to the capital's suburbs has remained largely ineffective.

Strict punishments called for school managers and bullies after pupil's assault

 Several lawyers have suggested prosecuting teachers at a school in Hung Yen Province after a student was assaulted by her classmates.

Hundreds of pupils stay home after pupil dies from flu

 Parents have prevented nearly 500 primary pupils from going to school in the northern province of Thai Binh after a pupil died from flu.

New university recruitment regulation raises concerns

 A new regulation concerning recruitment quotas for public tertiary education institutions in Viet Nam has been at the centre of debate among educators and lawmakers.

Hundreds of teachers face tests to keep Hanoi jobs

 Hundreds of teachers in Hanoi's Soc Son District have complained that they may lose their jobs as they will be tested to keep their existing posts.

Winners of National Olympiads to be directly admitted in universities: Ministry

 Winners of national Olympiads will be directly admitted into 96 majors in universities nationwide without taking the entrance examination, the Ministry of Education and Training  (MoET) announced yesterday.

Top winners of Microsoft competition to go to US for final round

 Top winners of the Microsoft Office Specialist Championship qualifying round will enter the national round and the world final round in the US from July 29 to 31.

New Zealand & Vietnam sign foreign languages agreement

 A memorandum of agreement was signed between New Zealand Government-to-Government Know-How and the National Foreign Languages Project last week.

Lao Cai’s student projects chosen for Intel int’l sci-engineering fair

 Four projects of students, which had won prizes in the Vietnam Science and Engineering Fair (ViSEF) in 2019, have been selected to join the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the US in May this year.