Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 4 Quality education
Hanoi proposes validation of online teaching
Online teaching is the initiative of the country’s education sector, not only for responding to learning in pandemic time.Le Ngoc Quang, deputy director of the municipal Department of Education and Training, stated that with a view to making online training more effective, the Ministry of ...
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University enrolment regulations for 2020 declared
University enrolment regulations for the 2020 intake will be adjusted to improve limitations in the university entrance exam last year, the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) declared in a conference on May 8 in Hanoi.The regulations will be applied for all university and college ...
Teacher brings borderless classroom to ethnic students
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 ...
International vocational training to be extended across country
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 ...
Universities launch new majors to meet labour trends
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 ...
Expediting education to reach the world
Vietnam has proactively integrated into the world at various levels and in diversified forms by embracing global market principles and standards.Recently, private investment in education has been on the rise, with numerous local and foreign names. Compared to 2018, the number of education projects has ...
Vietnam makes big leap in human development: UNDP
Vietnam has made good progress in human development, with an average annual Human Development Index (HDI) growth of 1.36 percent during the 1990-2018 period. This places Vietnam among the group of countries with the highest HDI growth rate in the world.This is one of the key ...
VN gets high scores but not named in PISA 2018 ranking
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 ...
Report on education human resources transformation in Asia released
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 ...
ASEAN forum discusses quality culture in higher education institutions
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 ...