More Australian students will head to Vietnam in 2018 to study and undertake work placements under the New Colombo Plan mobility programme, announced the Australian Embassy in Vietnam.

Vietnamese pupils enjoyed nationwide ceremonies welcoming the 2017-2018 academic year on September 5.

Whenever a new year approaches, low-income workers start to fret about finding schools, tuition fees, and arranging to drop off and collect their children at school. 

 Close to 20 million pupils and students took part in ceremonies held at schools at all levels across Vietnam on September 5 to ring in the 2017 – 2018 academic year.

 The number of Vietnamese pupils who choose to study abroad after their high school graduation exams has been on the rise.

 This year, vocational schools under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs are becoming attractive to students because they ensure to provide employment to all students after graduation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – From August 30 to September 1, Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha and representatives of Vietnamese schools visited Denmark and Sweden to seek cooperation opportunities.

 Teachers in several northern mountainous provinces are facing difficulties encouraging their pupils to return to school after the summer holiday.

The Ministry of Education and Training has sent an official dispatch on implementing tuition fee exemptions for preschool education for 5-year-old children in areas of difficult socio-economic conditions, from January 1, 2018.

 The Ministry of Education and Training has sent its document to public facilities of higher education and vocational training institutions, asking them to collect tuition fee of the academic year 2017-2018 in accordance with the law.

Phan Dang Nhat Minh of Hai Lang High School in Quang Tri won the championship at the 17th season of the competition The Road to Olympia Peak in Hanoi on August 27.

 The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has requested all public educational establishments to refrain from collecting fees other than tuition fees in the 2017-18 school year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A painting and photo exhibition to raise fund for disadvantaged students in the mountainous province of Lao Cai, Vietnam opened in Finland on August 27.

 Emily is a 24 year-old English teacher from the UK. Last summer, Emily volunteered in a school in Cambodia and arranged to have a little extra time to visit Vietnam and she fell in love with the country.

 The new school year is approaching, and schools in the northern province of Phu Tho are preparing for the new school year despite a shortage of facilities, teaching equipment and other necessities.

 Vietnam has 42,000 educational establishments

 For several months now, the market for textbooks, reference books and study kits has been abuzz with activity as the new school year approaches.

 An open high school robotics competition will be held in the central city of Da Nang from August 18 to 20 aiming to arouse students’ passion for creativeness and scientific research.

 Vietnamese students finished third with two silver and seven bronze medals in the final of the World Mathematics Olympiad (WMO) held in Tianjin, China from August 11-12. 

 The awarding committee of the Mathematics Institute honored 85 mathematics works at a ceremony which was held in Hanoi on August 12.