At an annual governmental session yesterday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested a strict punishment for school violence following some cases in the country.

 A teacher in Hung Yen Province has been sacked after punishing a 6th grader by demanding he eat 20 bags of jelly as a punishment.

 The 16th Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition (HOMC) concluded on April 5 with an award presenting ceremony held in the capital city. 

 The Incheon National University (INU) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and the Vietnamese Embassy signed a deal on scholarships for Vietnamese students on April 3.

 A decade-long plan to relocate several universities to the capital's suburbs has remained largely ineffective.

 Several lawyers have suggested prosecuting teachers at a school in Hung Yen Province after a student was assaulted by her classmates.

 Parents have prevented nearly 500 primary pupils from going to school in the northern province of Thai Binh after a pupil died from flu.

 A new regulation concerning recruitment quotas for public tertiary education institutions in Viet Nam has been at the centre of debate among educators and lawmakers.

 Hundreds of teachers in Hanoi's Soc Son District have complained that they may lose their jobs as they will be tested to keep their existing posts.

 Winners of national Olympiads will be directly admitted into 96 majors in universities nationwide without taking the entrance examination, the Ministry of Education and Training  (MoET) announced yesterday.

 Top winners of the Microsoft Office Specialist Championship qualifying round will enter the national round and the world final round in the US from July 29 to 31.

 A memorandum of agreement was signed between New Zealand Government-to-Government Know-How and the National Foreign Languages Project last week.

 Four projects of students, which had won prizes in the Vietnam Science and Engineering Fair (ViSEF) in 2019, have been selected to join the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the US in May this year. 

 Forty-four students who took the national high school examination last year in Son La had their scores fraudulently modified upwards, the Ministry of Education and Training announced on Saturday.

 Real estate developer FLC Group has submitted to the Ministry of Education and Training its proposal to build an international university of technology-tourism-aviation in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh.

 The Vietnamese Government always supports the effective operation of the Vietnam-Germany University, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said while receiving President of the Organisation for Supporting World University of Germany Kambiz Ghawami.

 The World Bank (WB) has been carrying out a project on improving the quality of tertiary education at four universities in Vietnam, including the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), since 2018 to increase their autonomy.

 A school in the remote area of Thanh Hoa Province is still seeing a high number of drop-outs and teenage mothers among students from low-income families.

 Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM education, has become hugely popular. The method helps to inspire scientific passion among pupils, creating a driving force for the next generation at a young age.

Suggestions were raised about a budget increase on research and about more incentive policies to boost scientific and technological research activities among high school teachers as well as students.