With a surge in capital contribution and share purchase, foreign capital investment in education in Vietnam rose by nearly 58% to US$78.89 million in the first nine months of this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency.

A reimagine talk titled “Digital Transformation for parents in Vietnam" was recently organised ahead of the ASEAN-UNICEF conference on Digital Transformation of the Education System throughout ASEAN.

The German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in cooperation with the Directorate of Vocational Education and Training and the Departments of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in eight cities and provinces, will offer short training courses for 1,000 workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

German chemical giant BASF has been very active in the Vietnamese market and with the enforcement of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, the company is seeking to make an even bigger mark.

A new report by the World Bank Group pointed out that between 2010 and 2020, the Human Capital Index for Vietnam increased from 0.66 to 0.69.

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong on September 4 called upon the education sector to overcome the challenges posed by COVID-19 on the eve of the new 2020-2021 school year.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong on September 4 called upon the education sector to overcome the challenges posed by COVID-19 on the eve of the new 2020-2021 school year.

VOV.VN - The UK’s Times Higher Education (THE) released their World University Rankings 2021 on September 2, with the Vietnam National University in Hanoi making it among the list’s top 801 to 1,000.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Education and Training has granted permission to localities applying social distancing measures to hold online an opening ceremony for the 2020-2021 academic year on September 5.

Vietnam and New Zealand have renewed their Strategic Engagement Plan on Education for the period from 2020 to 2023.