Children at some kindergartens in the northern mountainous province of Son La have fires to keep warm in their classroom in these chilly cold days.

 Three student teams at HCM City University of Technology, HCM City University of Technology and Education, and Đà Nẵng University of Technology won prizes in this year’s Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) contest.

 Nearly a third of students in HCM City suffer from stress, while 53% lack motivation.

 Education New Zealand (ENZ) on Thursday in HCM City signed a collaboration arrangement with the HCM City Department of Education and Training to further build an education partnership between New Zealand and the city.

 Many parents in Hai Phong City have expressed anger after local schools announced that only primary pupils with good grades could go to school while a teaching competition was being carried out.

 The Government has approved a project to ensure proper nutrition and improve the physical fitness of students.

 The lack of infrastructure is said to pose a big challenge for the implementation of the new National Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Education.

 Authorities of the central province of Quang Binh have launched an investigation into the case in which a local teacher has been accused of slapping a Grade 1 student.

 The German parliament has approved the “Bildungscampus Deutscheland” (German education campus) project in Ho Chi Minh City. 

 Some children in the northern province of Sơn La lack birth certificates, putting them at a disadvantage at school.

 Below is a selection of five highlights of Vietnamese education in 2018.

 Two Vietnamese universities were named in the list of the world’s 300 leading global universities on sustainable development.

 Ma Duc Huy has just graduated from the HCM City University of Technology (HUTECH), but is unable to find a job related to his major, bio-technology.

 In the vicinity of the Sreyvonya pagoda in Binh Phuoc province, the sound of children’s laughter brightens up the atmosphere. 

 The year 2018 witnessed a massive collection of gold medals won by excellent Vietnamese students at the International Olympiads in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics and informatics.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam has instructed related agencies to strictly deal with a case in which the headmaster of an ethnic minority boarding school in Phu Tho Province was accused of molesting many boy students.

 The management board of the Vietnam Seventh-day Adventist Church held a ceremony to start its first academic year for a batch of students of its Christian Bible College in Ho Chi Minh City on December 17.

 Vietnam is facing a shortage of teachers for disabled children.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently released Decision 1677/QD-TTg to ratify the Project on early childhood education development in the 2018-2025 period. 

 All the Vietnamese contestants bagged prizes at the 15th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) held in Botswana from December 2-10.