Education and training

Tens of millions of pupils and students across 63 provinces and cities have gone back to schools on May 4 after a three-month break due to Covid-19 pandemic. Up to 18 provinces and cities re-opened schools for all levels of learners from Monday.Most of local schools made use ...

Nearly 40,000 teachers and employees working at non-public education institutions in Hanoi have been subject to salary cuts owing to school closures because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Thousands of them are not receiving any salary during this period, according to the municipal Department ...

An English language high school teacher in the northern province of Phú Thọ has been employing a “borderless classroom model” to connect her students with their international peers via Skype.29-year-old Hà Ánh Phượng from Hương Cần High School encourages her students to sign up for ...

Vocational training schools in Vietnam will continue to use curricula transferred from Australia and Germany until the end of 2020 and 2025, respectively, following the Prime Minister’s approval to extend the technical vocational education and training (TVET) reform plan.The plan, developed by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids ...

Many public and private universities throughout the country in the 2020-2021 academic year will launch new majors to meet labour market trends and demands. Public universities have created new programmes following a regulation that expanded university autonomy in the amended Law on Higher Education that took effect last July.Keep reading ...

Việt Nam has missed out in the ranking of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 despite getting high scores.According to the Ministry of Education and Training, Việt Nam scores 505 points (ranking 13rd) in the reading test, 496 (ranking 24th) in maths, and 543 ...

Viet Nam’s vocational training sector is seeking to fix its long-term problems and develop into a strength. To train highly-skilled labourers as well as prepare for integration and the fourth industrial revolution, the Politburo on September 27 issued a resolution on developing vocational training. Following the resolution, ...

“Future of Work: The Choice of Vietnam” was the theme of the Labour Forum 2019 held in Hanoi on November 27.  The event was jointly held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), partners and the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s Country Office for Vietnam.According to the ...

The Education Commission has released a report on the transformation of human resources for education in Asia.Ju-Ho Lee, a commissioner of the Education Commission and former Minister of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Korea, said that many countries are facing shortage of teachers and unequal allocation of the ...

More than 250 delegates, from over 150 higher education institutions of 15 countries in the region and around the world, discussed quality culture in higher education institutions at the ASEAN-Quality Assurance Forum 2019 which opened in Hanoi on November 7. The event, entitled “Networking for Building ...