Teachers in the mountainous areas of Quang Tri Province visit every household to persuade pupils to go to school after Tet Holiday, and this year, they are also giving out lucky money as motivation and support.

The Ministry of Education will allow universities to set admission quotas and take into account the number of visiting lecturers they’ll have based on the number of admitted students.

 There will be more than 40,260 redundant teachers when the new national curriculum for general education is implemented from 2019, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

As per a report of the Out-of-school Children: Vietnam Country Study 2016 conducted by the Ministry of Education and Training and the UNICEF, drop-out rates of children aged 5-14 fell drastically.

The VN National University – Hanoi has become the first educational institution to recognize the American assessment test for university admissions as students are allowed to submit their SAT results to apply for entrance to the university.

 AmCham announced the new scholars to not only receive financial rewards, but additional support in job skills training, internships, and job placement assistance.

 The revision to the Law on Higher Education should create more favourable conditions for private institutions in tertiary education, officials have said.

 The Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology under the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) was presented with an institutional ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) quality certificate on January 22.

 Vocational training providers should pay more attention to quality to help Vietnamese workers integrate globally and prepare for the fourth industrial revolution, experts have said.

 Vietnam Social Insurance Agency has turned down Mai Linh Taxi's proposal to extend their insurance payment deadline to 2038.

 Thirty Vietnamese have received the New Zealand ASEAN Scholarship Awards to study in New Zealand.

 Under the draft new curriculum, secondary students are expected to have more out-of-school and creative experience, rather than only theory.

 Lecturers have said hundreds of students had been either being expelled or left universities because of boring curriculums and a lack of interest.

 As the temperature dropped to under 6 degrees Celsius, public schools in mountainous districts of Lao Cai province closed on January 10-11, and nearly 30,000 pupils stayed at home.

 The Vietnam Students' Association (VSA) organised a ceremony in Hanoi on January 7 to honour outstanding students and organisations with “Students with Five Good Performances” title and January Star Awards 2017.

 HCM City authorities will work with Vietnam Education Publishing House to draft textbooks that suit the city's socio-economic development and pupil abilities.

 The English Champion 2018, an English competition for students this year, was officially launched on Wednesday in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Training & Education has submitted to the government revised Education law, in which notably is the proposal to have free tuition for all public elementary and secondary schools.

 The Education Program of Microsoft has just announced the list of five Vietnamese representatives to attend in the 2018 E2 Global Educator Exchange Event.

 Support service centres for students with disabilities have been set up at the HCM City Pedagogy University and HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities.