STEM education has clearly had positive impacts in the local academic sphere, teachers say, but this is only the beginning of a challenging road.

Vietnam scored 505 out of 800, three points higher than last year and above the global average, keeping it in the “moderate proficiency” category along with 32 others, according to the EF English Proficiency Index (EPI) by Education First (EF).

The number of Vietnamese students makes for the fifth-largest group of foreign students in the United States, the same as the last academic year.

Vietnamese students brought home four major prizes at the 2023 World Robot Olympiad which was recently held in Panama, according to the Embassy of Denmark, an organizer of the Vietnam ROBOTACON contest.

Vietnamese students made up the fifth largest group of foreign students in the United States for the 2022/23 academic year, according to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) annual Open Doors report.

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said Vietnam is lacking 127,583 teachers and the figure has been increasing. As many as 17,278 teachers had resigned as of September 2023.

Currently, there are three sets of textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education and Training for use in schools. However, the evaluating and editing of the textbooks showed shortcomings, leading to errors in 18 textbooks’ content.

Around 40,000 Vietnamese people go abroad to study each year, a 2.5-fold increase compared to the figure before 2013.

The proportion of university students in STEM-related fields is relatively low compared to other countries in the region and Europe.

Hanoi’s education is experiencing difficult days. The land bank is not large enough for building new schools, while unreasonable policies are causing a teacher shortage.

Statistics from the Education and Training departments of five provinces in the region show that the region lacks more than 6,500 teachers at all educational levels.

Schools should not be a place where teachers used violence to express themselves or release their stress, but rather a place where fundamental moral values were upheld through proper and civilised behaviour, experts have said.

Statistics showed that Hanoi has an additional of 40,000 - 50,000 students each year, meaning it needs at least an additional of 20 public schools each year.

FPT Polytechnic University has partnered with Superteam Vietnam to use Solana blockchain technology in an internship program that allows students to earn university credits.

A total of six Vietnamese universities have been named in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2024 which was released on September 27.

Universities and experts said that there should necessarily be a national strategy for IC and semiconductor technology training with investment priorities in key schools with strengths in this field.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has signed Decision No. 1117/QD-TTg approving a programme to develop open educational resources for higher education.

The Ministry of Education and Training has proposed to the Government a delay in the implementation of the school fee increase schedule outlined in Decree 81 by one year to alleviate the financial burden on parents

Universities should only offer privileges to students with IELTS certificates when enrolling students for a linguistics major or for a joint training program taught in English. The IELTS certificate must not be put before professional knowledge.

The average score of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic test taken by Vietnamese people was 6.2 in 2022, according to the latest IELTS’s report on global IELTS scores 2022.