Nguyen Thi Lan Huong, 43, resigned from her post as a dean to which she was appointed at aged 27 to begin a new path of research about tertiary education.

Education experts, managerial officers and teachers all say that a challenging tenure faces the newly appointed Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son.

Professor Truong Nguyen Thanh says four challenges exist for the development of applied research in Vietnam.

Some projects submitted at the national science and technology for high school students have surprised people as they have dealt with complicated issues such as treatment of cancer and stroke.

International certificates and international programs are a "strong passport" for students to enroll in universities in Vietnam.

Nguyen Duc Nghia, deputy head of Anatomy Division of the Hanoi Medical University, gives anatomy lessons with just a box of colored chalk and no laptop.

Tran Hai Dang, deputy director of the Vietnam Institute of Musicology, says that many students are familiar with the western guitar, violin and piano but lack knowledge about traditional Vietnamese instruments.

Teachers have complained that they are now both busy teaching at school and looking for evidence to prove that they are eligible to access training courses for the new general education program.

All students in the first and second grades in HCM City will attend two shifts a day as opposed to one shift previously, according to an enrollment plan for the 2021-2022 academic period.

Many schools complain they don’t have money to organize STEM education but the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) says STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) does not always require a lot of money.

As the first author of six scientific articles and owner of one patent, Dr Ta Thu Hang has had great opportunities to get a promotion at a leading Australian university.

Along with a passion for teaching and a love of children, an ethnic Ba Na teacher in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has another enduring interest: fashion design.

It is a mistake to think that talented students are only those who score high at standardized tests or have a high GPA, according to Nguyen Chi Hieu, who has been working with students for 15 years.

While a variety of careers are open to maths majors as mathematics is involved in most sectors related to science and technology, students should prepare to adapt to their future jobs, experts have said.

The circulars released by Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) recently not only set criteria for ranking teachers by professional qualifications but also by professional ethical standards.

The image of a boy with shining eyes and crippled limbs damaged by Agent Orange prompted Ngo Thi Thuy Huong, born in 1974, "to do something" to revive contaminated land in Vietnam.

HCM City University of Technology (HCMUT) has said that Phan Thanh Son Nam, as head of the research team, should have rechecked the research articles before sending them to academic journals. Errors still existed in the articles after submission.

Parents whose children are studying at Singapore International School in Da Nang have expressed their concern about the news that a gym teacher was once accused of having child pornography in the US.

A teacher in Thanh Hoa was disciplined for drinking beer with students, and a teacher in Binh Thuan fell down the stairs after she was criticized for beating a student. These incidents were among others that caught the public's attention last week.

The Ministry of Education and Training has announced that there will be only three sets of textbooks for second graders, including two published by the Vietnam Education Publishing House.