The British Council Vietnam will hold the Study UK Exhibition in Hanoi on October 6 and Ho Chi Minh City on October 7.

 Kids at HCM City’s Tân Bình District Kindergarten on Friday saw a skit that showed them how to push straws into empty cartons after drinking milk and then flattening, folding and disposing of the cartons properly.

 A team from the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi won the first prize at the “Start-up Francophone 2018” competition for Asian – Pacific students at its finale in Hanoi on September 28.

 The Ministry of Communication and Information has given licences to four publishing houses to compile and publish textbooks, increasing the number of textbook publishers to five.

 The Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy aims to train 150 doctors in uncommon medical fields, including tuberculosis, leprosy, psychiatry, forensic science and surgery, for the Mekong Delta in this academic year.

 The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has decided to launch inspections into the printing and distribution of textbooks for the 2018-2019 academic year.

 A total of over 3.5 million students have gained access to loans to cover their tuition fees thanks to a government credit programme, according to the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies.

 The Vietnam-Japan University (VJU) signed an agreement with Japan’s ANA Holdings Co., Ltd to strengthen bilateral cooperation in training and research. 

 It comes as good news for many parents in HCMC when the municipal government says all children at public schools will be exempted from tuition fees up to the ninth grade, effective from this school year. 

 More than 30 New Zealand institutions will be present at the New Zealand Government’s agent-led education fairs in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi on September 22 and 23

 Hanoi capital city will include the two local heritage sites – the Thang Long imperial citadel and the Co Loa citadel relic – in the curriculum of local schools.

 The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has proposed to the Ministry of Finance to end tuition fees for secondary schools.

 More than 400 Vietnamese students from 51 universities across Russia gathered at the 2018 Obninsk Summer Camp, the third of its kind, held at Ivorga Recreation Park in Kaluga province on September 15-16.

 About 500 pupils are having to travel by boats through dangerous locations as early flooding damaged embankments and roads in the southern Dong Thap Province.

 About 40 universities of Vietnam and Russia signed 23 framework documents on cooperation in training and scientific research in Moscow, Russia, on September 7.

 The Vietnamese team to the 30th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2018) brought home four medals, the Ministry of Education and Training’s Department of Quality Management said on September 7.

 Many children from a village in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have to cross a local stream to school by plastic bags.

 Private higher education plays an important role in promoting human resource quality, however, policies to develop private universities still face obstacles. 

September 5 has long been considered the first day of the new academic year for Vietnamese pupils. The day reminds many people, especially the elderly, of a new school year back when the country faced tough times.

 More than 23 million students across the country, or one-fourth of the total population, started a new academic year on September 5.