Vietnamplus

The first US volunteers of the Peace Corps in Vietnam took oaths during a ceremony in Hanoi on December 30.

Vietnam is scheduled to host the 13th ASEAN School Games in August 2023, according to a decision signed by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on December 28.

Vingroup Innovation Foundation (VINIF) on December 8 held a ceremony to announce the list of young scientists who will receive scholarships this year and summarise training cooperation programmes.

The Ministry of Education and Training has announced that it will propose to Government to increase salaries and preferential allowances for preschool and primary teachers to help them feel secure and stay in their jobs for a long time.

Vietnamese and foreign experts shared experience in childhood education in order to build a new pre-school education programme during a conference held by the Ministry of Education and Training on November 22.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern witnessed the signing of cooperation agreements between the two sides' agencies following their talks in Hanoi on November 14.

The Vietnamese - German University (VGU) will become a "lighthouse" project in the relationship between the two countries and a bright spot in Vietnam’s tertiary education system in the coming time, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) on November 10 ordered provincial/municipal Departments of Education and Training to strictly monitor and manage the organisation of foreign language proficiency tests.

The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat has issued a warning for the Party Civil Affairs Board of the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) in the 2016 - 2021 tenure and former Minister Phung Xuan Nha for their wrongdoings.

The Ministry of Education and Training has unveiled a plan to improve the training of high-quality human resources for the technology sector to enhance competitiveness in the region and the world.

Ha Anh Phuong, recognised by the Thai Princess' award for outstanding achievements in education, joined her fellow Southeast Asian educators in a forum on October 18 to exchange best practices to recover from the COVID-19 education crisis.

Four pre-university schools and one high school under the management of the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) have been handed over to the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Affairs.

The Ministry of Education and Training on September 15 held a conference on cooperation and investment in education with the aim of mobilising social resources for education development in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Education and Training has asked all cities and provinces to give health check-ups and nutritional status assessments to all pre-school students.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on September 12 announced that it has signed its first-ever Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam (MOET) to improve the quality of Vietnamese higher education.

The Commission of Inspection of the Party Central Committee held its 19th session from Sept 6 -8 in Hanoi under the chair of the commission’s chairman Tran Cam Tu.

Over 45,000 foreign students from 102 countries and territories studied in 155 educational facilities across Vietnam from 2016 to 2021, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

During a conference reviewing the training and management of foreign students in Vietnam from 2016 – 2021 and chalking out plans for the 2022 – 2030 period, held recently in Hanoi, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phuc has urged Vietnamese universities to improve quality of their programmes and beef up international cooperation to attract more foreign students.

Between 4,000 and 6,000 international students were admitted to Vietnamese educational institutions every year between the 2016-2021, according to a report by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET)'s International Cooperation Department.

The Ministry of Education and Training has said that three pillars in Vietnam's education transformation in the coming time will be transformation of the governance system, environmental transformation and digital technology.