Winners of national Olympiads will be directly admitted into 96 majors in universities nationwide without taking the entrance examination, the Ministry of Education and Training  (MoET) announced yesterday.

 Top winners of the Microsoft Office Specialist Championship qualifying round will enter the national round and the world final round in the US from July 29 to 31.

 A memorandum of agreement was signed between New Zealand Government-to-Government Know-How and the National Foreign Languages Project last week.

 Four projects of students, which had won prizes in the Vietnam Science and Engineering Fair (ViSEF) in 2019, have been selected to join the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the US in May this year. 

 Forty-four students who took the national high school examination last year in Son La had their scores fraudulently modified upwards, the Ministry of Education and Training announced on Saturday.

 Real estate developer FLC Group has submitted to the Ministry of Education and Training its proposal to build an international university of technology-tourism-aviation in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh.

 The Vietnamese Government always supports the effective operation of the Vietnam-Germany University, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said while receiving President of the Organisation for Supporting World University of Germany Kambiz Ghawami.

 The World Bank (WB) has been carrying out a project on improving the quality of tertiary education at four universities in Vietnam, including the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), since 2018 to increase their autonomy.

 A school in the remote area of Thanh Hoa Province is still seeing a high number of drop-outs and teenage mothers among students from low-income families.

 Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM education, has become hugely popular. The method helps to inspire scientific passion among pupils, creating a driving force for the next generation at a young age.

Suggestions were raised about a budget increase on research and about more incentive policies to boost scientific and technological research activities among high school teachers as well as students.

Hanoi University of Science under Vietnam National University on March 16 held a seminar in Hanoi to connect former students and recruiters within the field.

 Opportunities along with challenges to online education in the context of the fourth industrial revolution were the main theme of the International Conference on Online Education 2019 (ICOE 2019) held in Ho Chi Minh City on March 15. 

 The Ministry of Education and Training said that they would strictly deal with the officials and students who altered the results for 2018 high school graduation and university entrance exams.

 Can Tho University and the Centre for Chinese Cultural Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy discussed cooperation in human resources training and scientific research on March 14.

 State-owned high schools throughout HCMC will receive around 70,000 10th-grade students for the 2019-2020 school year while more than 100,000 students will finish secondary school in the academic year 2018-2019.

 A large number of university students in Hanoi gathered at a dialogue on March 13 to discuss gender equality and safety for women and children.

 Modified National High School Examination test results of 56 candidates in Hoa Binh Province from July of last year will not be recognised, the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) announced on Tuesday.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha yesterday sent a compliment letter to an 8-year-old child in Quang Ninh who travels 120 kilometers every weekend to study English in a foreign language center.

 The Investigative Security Agency at the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has arrived at a decision regarding a case of exam fraud in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh last year.