Japanese Ambassador Kunio Umeda has raised warnings about traps targeting Vietnamese students who go to study in Japan as Vietnam has the highest number of absconding students and apprentices.

 As local Vietnamese people eagerly await the upcoming Tet (or Lunar New Year) festival as a time for family gatherings, many expatriates in the country are also looking forward to experiencing such a major traditional festival of Vietnam.

 The Vietnamese government has also approved 530 joint training programs between local and foreign universities.

 2019-2020 program to present 650 scholarships to students to study the Indonesian language, culture and arts.

 A Vietnam-UK educational investment and cooperation forum held in London on January 22 was successful beyond expectations with the signing of 23 memoranda of understanding.

 The Vietnamese Government has allocated 20 percent of State budget spending or 5.8 percent of national gross domestic product (GDP) each year on education, Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has said. 

 Choi Young-sook, a Korean woman in her 60s with a doctorate degree in audiology, has been dedicating her time to students with disabilities in Da Lat city in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong over the past eight years.

 Children at some kindergartens in the northern mountainous province of Son La have fires to keep warm in their classroom in these chilly cold days.

 Three student teams at HCM City University of Technology, HCM City University of Technology and Education, and Đà Nẵng University of Technology won prizes in this year’s Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) contest.

 Nearly a third of students in HCM City suffer from stress, while 53% lack motivation.

 Education New Zealand (ENZ) on Thursday in HCM City signed a collaboration arrangement with the HCM City Department of Education and Training to further build an education partnership between New Zealand and the city.

 Many parents in Hai Phong City have expressed anger after local schools announced that only primary pupils with good grades could go to school while a teaching competition was being carried out.

 The Government has approved a project to ensure proper nutrition and improve the physical fitness of students.

 The lack of infrastructure is said to pose a big challenge for the implementation of the new National Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Education.

 Authorities of the central province of Quang Binh have launched an investigation into the case in which a local teacher has been accused of slapping a Grade 1 student.

 The German parliament has approved the “Bildungscampus Deutscheland” (German education campus) project in Ho Chi Minh City. 

 Some children in the northern province of Sơn La lack birth certificates, putting them at a disadvantage at school.

 Below is a selection of five highlights of Vietnamese education in 2018.

 Two Vietnamese universities were named in the list of the world’s 300 leading global universities on sustainable development.

 Ma Duc Huy has just graduated from the HCM City University of Technology (HUTECH), but is unable to find a job related to his major, bio-technology.