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Parents fight tooth and nail to get their child into a primary school of choice.
Three months before first-grade enrollment opens for the next batch of bright-eyed youngsters, the more prestigious of the public schools in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are girding their loins to do battle with parents who will do anything it [...]

Le Vo Phuong Mai, a Vietnamese student at the UK-based Cardiff University, has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, which rejects the European-American economic model and introduces a more perfect one.  

Le Vo Phuong Mai in her recent return to Hanoi.

 Mai was born in Hanoi. She went to live with her parents in Saint Petersburg at [...]

Only 0.2 percent of preschool teachers in Ho Chi Minh City are men but they love the job.

Le Minh Hien’s preschoolers call him Daddy.

Teacher Le Minh Hien plays with his preschoolers at HCMC Kindergarten in District 3.

 
The name is fitting as he feeds them, cleans them and tucks them in when they take their naps.

Preschool [...]

The government has approved the United Nations Volunteers (UNV)’s Empowering Voluntary Capacity for Vietnam’s Development project to boost community service activities in Vietnam.

The project aims to improve and expand activities at the Vietnam Voluntary Information Resources Center, founded in 2007.

The campaign would also look to promote volunteering in the media to facilitate more youth participation [...]

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) recently ordered schools to allot more space and time for gymnastics but schools in Hanoi are protesting that it is beyond their means at present.

The Ba Trieu Primary School in Hai Ba Trung District has five branches and students in four of them have to learn gymnastics in [...]

With charming blue eyes, bobbing blonde hair, an attractive smile, Dean Wilson looks more like a Hollywood actor than a lecturer. But actually, he is a doctor of cinematography and a lecturer of the Ford Foundation’s movie project in Vietnam, and called teacher Din by Vietnamese student-artists.

Dean Wilson

 
 
 
Students at the Hanoi-based University of Social Sciences [...]

Despite billions of dong being poured into higher education, Vietnam is sliding down international education rankings lists.

According to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, from 2000 to 2006 the state budget for education increased from VND12.6 trillion (US$762 million) a year to VND37.3  trillion ($2.2 billion) a year. The figures do not include the [...]

Professors, leading educators and experts from many fields say the Ministry of Education and Training should do more analysis and research before setting big targets.

Students at a job fair held in the Mekong Delta’s Can Tho City last month. An education development draft plan targets up to 80 percent of Vietnam’s graduates with occupational skills [...]

The number of international schools in Ho Chi Minh City has burgeoned over the last decade, but many, if not most of them do not meet the standards normally associated with them, experts say.

At a conference held on Expanding the International School Model in Ho Chi Minh City earlier this week, the city’s Department [...]

A Vietnamese scientist’s fascination for lizards has netted him world recognition for discovering seven new reptile species.

Ngo Van Tri works at the laboratory of the Hanoi-based Institute of Tropical Biology. Tri has had his discovery of six new lizard species and one species of pit viper published in international scientific journals.

With a very old motorbike [...]