For the first time a public university in Vietnam will offer golf training to its students. This will be a subject that students can choose to practice besides football, swimming, badminton, table tennis, and other sports.

On the list of 500 leading universities in emerging economies recently announced by the UK’s Times Higher Education (THE), Vietnam has three representatives: 

Dominique Altner, Senior Program Specialist at IIEP (International Institute for Educational Planning), spoke to VietnamNet about the development of Vietnam’s education system in the last five years.

The demand for doctors and medical workers is high, but the workforce for the healthcare sector is produced only by several public schools. This has prompted private schools to jump on the bandwagon.

Thirteen years after establishing a network of universities and junior colleges in the 2006-2020 period, the number of university lecturers with doctorate and master’s degrees has increased by twofold.

Do Thanh Lam from Ba Ria – Vung Tau tried to apply for work at the world's leading tech firms, even though her English was not very good and she had studied only in Vietnam.

Three additional member universities of VNU-HCM universities will become autonomous next year, Dr Nguyen Minh Tam, the university’s vice chancellor, said at an annual meeting held on Tuesday.

As a lecturer at Deakin University in Australia, most of the research of Prof., Dr. Tran Thi Ly relates to Vietnam.

As an excellent student at the Tran Phu High School for the Gifted in the northenr port city of Hai Phong, Hanh An thought she would study at an architecture or technology school. But she unexpectedly ‘drifted’ to Canada and then to the US.

Ngo Minh Hieu, the student who carried his friend on his back to school for 10 years, is now a student at Thai Binh Medical University. He is one of 14 people nominated by VietNamNet as Inspiring Characters.

In 2021, Vietnam’s education sector will accelerate the National Digital Transformation Program and implement digital transformation.

A number of public universities have reported vacancies for the post of rector or their boards of management. The vacancies have lasted from several months to several years.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son believes that the biggest difficulty in digital transformation is the lack of qualified human resources.

Statistics show that universities with high positions in rankings have more autonomy in governance, organizational structure, finance, and academic freedom.

Covered by the Law on Public Employees, universities with autonomy don’t have the right to make decisions in recruitment, increase pay for talented lecturers, or dismiss incapable workers.

Autonomy in higher education in Vietnam is facing challenges, particularly accountability and finances, according to Deputy Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son.

Eleven Vietnamese universities were listed in the QS Asia University Rankings 2021 (QS AUR) released by the UK’s higher education marketing company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) on November 25.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has just gathered ideas for the final draft of the new decree regarding the mechanism for collecting tuition fees applicable to educational institutions in the national education system.

Vietnam has four representatives in the 2021 Best Global Universities rankings put out by the US News & World Report. ​

The International University-Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City has decided to pay doctoral students VND10 million (US$430) for monthly living expenses and waive tuition fees of up to 100 per cent in the 2020-21 academic year.