Only 2.9 per cent of schools were designed to provide access for disabled children, and just 9.9 per cent had sanitary facilities suitable for people with disabilities.

Vietnam's workforce demand in the semiconductor–microchip field is forecast to be around 20,000 engineers for the next five years, and 50,000 engineers in the next 10 years, according to economists from the Fullbright University.

The Ministry of Education and Training has proposed to the Government a delay in the implementation of the school fee increase schedule outlined in Decree 81 by one year to alleviate the financial burden on parents

Two years ago, for the first time, schools in the mountainous districts of Gia Lai and Kon Tum held an opening ceremony for the new academic year online.

Universities should only offer privileges to students with IELTS certificates when enrolling students for a linguistics major or for a joint training program taught in English. The IELTS certificate must not be put before professional knowledge.

Statistics unveiled by the Ministry of Education and Training show that Vietnam currently has as many as 1,234,124 preschool and primary and high school teachers, although it still lacks nearly 120,000 classroom teachers.

A training mechanism supporting tuition fees and living expenses for pedagogical students has received poor response from provinces.

Concerns have been raised about the syllabus being too difficult, with more than 52,000 students being classified as not completing the year.

Just after looking up his high school final exam scores, Bui Dinh Thang, born in 2005 in Duc Tho district of Ha Tinh province, was stunned when hearing that his mother would have to undergo a second surgery because of a malignant brain tumor.

Nearly 2,500 teachers in Hanoi have sent a letter to the city’s chair and education and training department head, expressing their wish to remove the exam for upgrading their rank.

Tuition fees for the 2023-2024 academic year will not increase as schools have not yet implemented or applied the roadmap for the fee collection and management mechanism as per the government’s Decree No. 81/2021/ND-CP.

Rapid urbanization, planning disruption, traffic jams and school shortages are serious problems in Hanoi.

The teacher shortage crisis has occurred for many years, but no improvement has been made.

The International School at ParkCity Hanoi (ISPH) has announced to open its news Sixth Form Centre in August 2023.

The agricultural labour force constitutes approximately 30 per cent of the country’s total labour force, but the number of students registering for agricultural majors is less than 2 per cent of the total annual student intake.

It will be very difficult to retain talents if they don’t have the right working environment to enrich their own values and improve their capacity, one university dean said.

The current system of vocational schools features poor management, accompanied by a lack of funds, and failure in student recruitment, hence teaching facilities and equipment are not invested.

About 33,000 students, accounting for 44.3 per cent of the total, were left with no choice but to enrol in private high schools, continuation schools or vocational schools.

Students in mountainous areas still have to study in degraded classrooms without sufficient learning materials, a reason contributing to high drop-out rates in the areas and a barrier to teachers wanting to work there.

Agriculture, forestry, irrigation, and fisheries students accounted for less than 2 per cent of the total number of around 520,000 students enrolled nationwide in 2022.