Vice Chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem had a meeting on November 8 with the General Director of Japan’s education group Soshi, who said his firm wants to set up an international university in the city.

The APEC University Leaders’ Forum took place in Da Nang on November 8 with the participation of nearly 60 representatives from universities, businesses and State management agencies in the region.

 In its dispatch to people’s committees across the country, the Ministry of Education and Training ordered to put an end to collecting enrollment fees in excess of standard levels set by the government.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged agencies to focus their resources on developing the Vietnam National University – Hanoi, the Vietnam National University – HCMC and the University of Da Nang into prestigious centres for training human resources.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project which supports students to start up businesses by 2025.

 Outgoing US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius has announced that he will take a new post as vice chairman of the Fulbright Vietnam University after finishing his term.

 Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has admitted that many teachers in Vietnam receive salary levels which are not commensurate with their efforts.

 After graduating from high school, Le Minh Tu, who has a hearing impairment, enrolled in college in HCM City and paid an interpreter to help her study.

 Education experts from Australia shared their country’s experience in running universities to meet the criteria of world university ranking systems at a workshop in Hanoi on October 26.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasised that Vietnam will continue to give autonomy to public universities after the pilot project on the autonomy of universities is completed in the next two months.

 Eleven teams will represent Viet Nam at the World Robot OlympiadTM (WRO) 2017 along with participants from 60 other countries at the event, to be held in Costa Rica on November 10-12.

Many policies for the disabled remain impractical and have yet to help students with disabilities access tertiary education. 

 Two Vietnamese universities have secured places on a list of the top 150 universities in Asia, compiled by London-based education consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

The achievement of the Vietnamese team this year reminds us of Le Ba Khanh Trinh, who honored Vietnam by winning aperfect score at the IMO in 1979, plus a special prize for the smartest answer.

 Twelve outstanding Vietnamese students aged 14-16 were presented with ASEAN scholarships at a ceremony held on October 18 in Hanoi.

 Vietnam National University, Hanoi has maintained its 139th ranking and Vietnam National University, HCM City climbed five places to 142nd in the QS Asia University Rankings 2018.

 Four first universities of Vietnam have been recognised by France’s High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) for meeting international standards.

In the past three years, Rich, a 66-year-old American man, spends nearly one hour every day riding to his workplace, Binh An Center for Development in District 8, HCM City, where he works as an English teacher for disadvantaged kids.

 Vietnam should learn from advanced early childhood education models of foreign countries and apply best practices in order to achieve its set target in developing pre-school education, heard an international workshop in Hanoi on October 11. 

The Prime Minister has approved a project to organise the 19th Asian Physics Olympiad in 2018 in Vietnam, which is hoped to help encourage the study and teaching of physics in schools, thus seeking and nurturing talented students in the subject.