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Demand outstrips healthcare availability in schools

Despite the importance of school health care, many schools have been unable to meet the growing demand for these services.

Billions of VND of tuition to be reimbursed to students

Universities are returning tuition to students or deducting tuition for the next semester, following the government’s request to keep tuition unchanged for this academic year.

Education reform to continue in 2023

In late 2021, Vietnam changed to safe adaptation to Covid-19, and the educational sector had to adapt to new conditions. Despite huge difficulties in the time of the pandemic, Vietnam’s education still gained great achievements.

Schools aim to have Tet bonuses for teachers

Like other workers, teachers are looking forward to receiving Tet bonuses. Schools in remote areas promise a bonus of just hundreds of thousands of dong, while other schools offer a bonus of tens of millions of VND.

The highs and lows of the education sector in 2022

There were bright and dark moments in the education sector in 2022.

State spending on education far below target

The state’s spending on education in 2022 was still lower than 20 percent of total budget expenditures as required in Resolution 37/2004/NQ-QH11.

Headmaster honored by Microsoft for last three years

Nguyen Thi Kim Dung, headmaster of Dong La Secondary School in Hoai Duc district in Hanoi has been honored as Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert - MIEE for three consecutive years.

Education Ministry makes bold moves to keep preschool and primary teachers stay

Statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training also show that in the first ten months of this year, about 16,000 teachers quit their jobs, most of which were preschool educators.

You're never too old to learn

If age and experience is anything to go by, these 'pupils' in Hanoi really are top of the class. Once a week the elderly learners meet up to have English lessons. The silver-haired 'students' are living proof that it is never too old to learn.

Teachers resign because of modest salaries: Education Ministry

In the 2021-2022 academic year, 16,265 teachers resigned and switched to other jobs, including 10.407 public school teachers and 5,858 private school teachers, according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s report to the National Assembly.

Vietnamese teacher's cross-border lessons

Though the computer, students at Giao Thien Primary School in Giao Thuy District of Nam Dinh Province can study English with foreign teachers and students in many countries around the world.

Youngest candidate for professorship title in 2022

The candidate who met standards for the professorship title this year was born in November 1979.

Vietnam to expand international cooperation in professional education

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Welfare is stepping up the execution of agreements on labor cooperation and professional education with international markets, including Poland and Singapore.

University supports doctoral dissertation on women’s bras

Associate Prof Dr Phan Thanh Thao, head of the Institute of Textiles and Garments, Footwear and Fashion has affirmed that the doctoral dissertation about women’s bras is a research work with scientific and practical value.

1,000 authors with doctoral degree or higher compiled textbooks for new academic year

As many as 1,574 authorities participated in compiling textbooks for six grades in accordance with the new general education program issued in 2018.

Students' mindset about memorizing, copying texts stifles writing skills and creativity

A foreign professor who teaches at an international-standard university in Vietnam recently said he was disappointed about students’ semester-end exam papers.

Many graduates work in fields unrelated to their university major: survey

More than 21 percent of university graduates are working in fields unrelated to their major.

Vietnam seeks stronger education partnership with US

Minister of Education Nguyen Kim Son on September 25 concluded his US working trip that aimed to strengthen education partnership between the two countries.

Shortage of textbooks, facilities affect teaching in new school year

The 2022-23 school year is the third year that the entire education and training sector has deployed the 2018 general education programme as part of the national education reform strategy.

Vietnam has more than 600 valid foreign invested education projects

As of December 31, 2021 the education sector of Vietnam had 605 valid foreign investment cooperation projects with a total investment capital of more than US$4.57 billion, an increase of 321 projects compared to five years earlier.