Social development
Education and training
Dutch-funded educational cooperation project for sustainability launched
A ceremony was held in Hanoi on April 10 to launch a project on educational cooperation for sustainable changes in Vietnam’s deltas, attracting the participation of the project’s Vietnamese and Dutch partners.Funded by the Dutch government, the project will run between 2019-2021. The project revolves around ...
German state offers free vocational training for Vietnamese workers
Vietnamese labourers will have opportunities to receive free vocational training in Germany under a programme to look for skilled workers in the Southeast Asian country launched by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for South Thüringen (IHK Südthüringen).Since it was initiated in Vietnam in 2016 ...
Vietnamese university named in top 101-200 of Impact Ranking
Ton Duc Thang University in HCM City has been listed in top 101-200 of The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019.Ton Duc Thang University ranked high in terms of quality education, sitting among the top 48-59 and in terms of sustainable cities and communities, ...
Hong Hanh
New university recruitment regulation raises concerns
A new regulation concerning recruitment quotas for public tertiary education institutions in Vietnam has been at the centre of debate among educators and lawmakers.The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) recently decided to use the percentage of students that gained employment after graduation as the ...
New standards to improve preschool quality
The Ministry of Education and Training’s new national professional standards for kindergarten teachers and principals will act as a basis to rebuild training programmes at universities and colleges of education.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Changes in tuition fee in 2019
As per the decree No. 86, public schools and self-financing facilities are entitled to raise tuition fee once every two year whereas other public higher educational institutions subsidized by the government will change tuition fee annually. Tuition fee in subsidized schools is VND700,000 – VND900,000 higher ...
VietnamNet Reporter
Vietnam National University – Hà Nội up 216 spots in world ranking
Vietnam National University – Hà Nội (VNU) retained its top spot in the Vietnamese rankings and was in 1090th place globally, up 216 steps from the last ranking announced in August 2018.In the first Webometrics rankings of world universities in 2019, announced yesterday by the ...
VNS Reporter
New general educational curriculum unveiled
The Ministry of Education and Training on Thursday unveiled a new general educational curriculum which aims to reduce pressure on students and allow them to choose subjects they enjoy.The new curriculum, which focuses on students’ activities to develop their competence, is divided into two phases. The ...
Two Vietnamese universities ranked among world’s 300 most sustainable
The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking lists two Vietnamese universities among the 300 most sustainable universities.HCMC-based Ton Duc Thang University and Tra Vinh University in the southern province of the same name are ranked 182nd and 256th, respectively, in the list of 719 most sustainable ...
Manh Tung
English as an official language in Vietnam: would it work?
Opinion is not divided on the desirability of learning English, but making it an official language is easier said than done.At the Youth Entrepreneurship Forum 2018 last month, Minister of Information and Communication Nguyen Manh Hung suggested that the Prime Minister should soon recognize English ...