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.

The Ministry of Education and Training is to implement the Vietnam National Qualifications Framework (VQF).

Experts affirmed that with low costs, medical schools will not be able to produce high-quality doctors.

The announcement by the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy on raising tuition by five times has stunned the public.

The number of articles published in international publications by Vietnam’s higher education establishments has increased by three times compared with seven years ago.

The State Audit, when working with the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), named a number of schools which enroll students of low quality for high-quality training programs.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is collecting opinions from universities on its draft regulation for higher education enrollment in 2020. Schools will draw up their enrollment plans based on the regulation.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has set very strict requirements for universities to organize entrance exams of their own.

Non-state education establishments had to close the doors during the epidemic, but some of them began using online teaching activities.

Though they have complained about the challenges of organizing online training, schools agree that now is the right time to digitize university education.

Chao Thi Yen, a young woman from the Dao Tuyen ethnic minority in northwest Vietnam has defied challenges to become the first woman from her community to earn a master’s degree abroad through a full-degree scholarship

Universities have had to provide lectures online as a temporary solution during the COVID-19 pandemic, but experts believe that e-learning will become an indispensable part of higher education in Vietnam.

The topics of many graduation theses are coming from the ideas of users or projects ordered by enterprises.

Learning to know, learning to do, learning to be, and learning to live together are the four pillars of learning as defined by UNESCO.

Low training costs are one of the reasons for many students to enroll in state-owned universities, but the tuition of the schools is increasing.

Many schools are not thinking of organizing online classes while others have tried to give lectures online, but said that there were many problems.

In 2006, a national key project hosted by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) was launched and applied on a trial basis at 10 key universities in Vietnam.

The proposal by the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MIA) to re-organize the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has raised controversy.

The policy to organize high-quality programs in universities nationwide was introduced in 2006 to increase competitiveness among domestic educational institutes.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) states that in the upcoming academic year, universities in Vietnam must stop using unsuitable subject combinations to accept new students.