Vietnam will provide free school textbooks to all general education students from the 2029-2030 academic year under a new government decree introducing a nationwide borrowing and return system to maximize reuse.

Vietnam's next education challenge is no longer getting ethnic minority children into school, but ensuring they thrive, gain skills and become future drivers of local development.

Vietnam's education ministry has unveiled a nationwide plan to consolidate public schools, targeting a 30% reduction in administrative units while expanding larger school models.

Vietnam plans to expand student loan support, raising borrowing limits and widening eligibility to help ensure financial hardship does not prevent young people from pursuing higher education.

Draft higher education standards would introduce new benchmarks for faculty qualifications, student outcomes and scientific research.

Deep in the mountains along Vietnam’s frontier, excavators and construction teams are working against the clock to build schools that promise to reshape the future of border communities.

The State and the People spare nothing for a better future. Education, therefore, must receive breakthrough priority in investment.

Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW, signed by Party General Secretary To Lam on August 22, 2025, reaffirms education and training as the “top national priority” shaping the nation’s future, and stresses the need for deep, comprehensive reform.

Vietnam waived public school tuition, selected a national textbook, and passed its first-ever Teacher Law in 2025.

The Ministry of Education and Training has released a list of ten landmark accomplishments in Vietnam’s education sector throughout 2025, showcasing sweeping policy reforms, institutional upgrades, and student excellence.

The HCMC University of Technology pays foreign professors and PhDs up to VND99 million a month, or three times more than Vietnamese counterparts.

The Vietnamese education system is preparing for a transformation in 2025, as the Ministry of Education and Training works to streamline its structure and improve management at all levels of the education system.