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A speech-to-text software application with accuracy of up to 93.6 percent was honoured on November 15 as the winner of the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2019 IT category.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) has greatly influenced Vietnam’s tertiary education, resulting in a transition in professions, curricula and training methods.

The National Start-up Festival for students took place in the Hanoi University of Science and Technology on October 5.

For the first time, three Vietnamese universities have been named in the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings.

Vietnam has entered the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the first time, with three of its universities making it.

Three universities of Vietnam have entered the World University Rankings 2000 of the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine for the first time.

The fifth Vietnam International Conference and Exhibition on Control and Automation (VCCA 2019) opened in Hanoi on September 4.

A shortage of resources as well as a modest number of AI firms have been the biggest challenges for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in Vietnam, said Bui The Duy, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology.

The Country Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Vietnam has stated that the country’s capital disbursement rate has slowed down in the past 3 – 4 years.

Some Vietnamese universities may be named in Times Higher Education (THE)’s World University Rankings in the next few years, a representative from THE said at a workshop in Hanoi on June 13.

Universities have been speeding up strong research teams to improve its scientific research quality, position and trademark. The competition for attracting excellent students has also been fiercer.

A Hanoi-based start-up company is trying to help Vietnamese children protect their eyes and spines.

In addition to results of national high school examinations, universities will add general ability tests to select students.

The Vietnam National University - Hanoi on February 28 announced that its three training branches have been named in the world top 500-600 by education organisation Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

At the age of 24, Khang A Tua, an ethnic Mông minority, has become one of 54 first students of the Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV).

The Vietnam National University – Hanoi (VNU) remains the top in Vietnam with the 1090th place globally, up 216 steps from the ranking announced in August 2018.

In 2017, up to 38,000 tonnes of municipal waste was generated a day in Vietnam and a lack of proper solutions to the waste problem is harming the urban environment.

During the last days of 2018, Hanoians experienced the coldest spell so far this winter as the temperature varied from only 10 to 14 degrees Celsius.

Four Vietnamese agencies were honoured with the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) awards during a ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan on November 8.

A replica of an Italian square will be set up at the Thang Long Royal Citadel during the Italian Food Festival on November 10-11.