Policies need to be designed in a way to ensure benefits for academic researchers so they can live well and spend their time on research, and don’t have to sell themselves for food and clothing, experts say.

The average score on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) of Vietnamese people in 2022 ranked 23rd out of 40 countries organising the IELTS exam.

The Vietnam Institute of Education Sciences and the National Foreign Languages Project Management Board on December 27 held a conference to publish this year’s report on the teaching and learning of foreign languages in Vietnam.

Assisting children in enhancing focus and self-control is a constant consideration for teacher Tran Lan Phuong.

Vietnamese student Tran Thi Chi from Van Lang University in Vietnam claimed first prize in the International Graduation Projects Award 2023 thanks to her project “Culture of the Sea Museum”.

Vietnam ranks 58th out of 113 countries and territories in the EF English Proficiency Index in 2023 with 505 points out of 800.

Serious cases of school violence recently have raised strong alarm about the importance of educating children on respecting teachers and upholding morality, along with implementing measures to protect educators.

All six students who are all 10th graders from Hanoi have won medals, including one silver and five bronze, at the 20th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) in Thailand.

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued a decision promulgating a training and certificate granting programme for foreigners teaching English language at foreign language and information technology centres in Vietnam.

Nguyen Truong Hai successfully applied for the post of visiting lecturer at many universities with a fake doctorate in computer science and almost succeeded in becoming a dean of a junior college.

The 32nd Vietnam Student Olympiad in Informatics (OLP) and the 2023 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia opened in the central city of Hue on December 6.

The University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH) received a certificate from France’s High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) for meeting its standards on December 1.

As of 2025, high-school students will take only four graduation tests as opposed to five or six as seen in previous years, announced the Ministry of Education and Training on November 29.

It is expected that by 2030, Vietnam will have 260 university students per 10,000 people.

Private schools are racing to open new majors and find ways to increase enrolment quota as much as possible to increase revenue; thus, the government should work to protect academic values from excessive commercialization.

The Korean International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) has funded facilities and equipment worth VNĐ300 million (US$12,000) for Korean language smart study (KLaSS) – the Korean language digital education project at the Da Nang-based Dong A University.

A team from the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho won the championship of the Global Robotics Games 2023 – an international competition for youngsters aged from 4-10 held by Singapore non-profit organisation Developing Innovative Youth (DIY).

STEM education has clearly had positive impacts in the local academic sphere, teachers say, but this is only the beginning of a challenging road.

Vietnam scored 505 out of 800, three points higher than last year and above the global average, keeping it in the “moderate proficiency” category along with 32 others, according to the EF English Proficiency Index (EPI) by Education First (EF).

The number of Vietnamese students makes for the fifth-largest group of foreign students in the United States, the same as the last academic year.