NDO/VNA – The 13th plenary session of the CONFRASIE (Regional Conference of Rectors of the member universities of the University Agency of the French-speaking world (AUF) in Asia-Pacific) took place in Ho Chi Minh City on May 7. 

NDO – Five top prizes worth VND100 million each, accompanied by the opportunity to receive development assistance for each outstanding project, will be granted to winners of the "Young Intellectuals for Education Innovation" Awards 2019, aiming to encourage youngsters to contribute their initiatives to facilitate education in Vietnam. 

NDO - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) launched the project “We are able” in Hanoi on April 25, with the aim to expand access to education for ethnic minority children. 

NDO – The University of Da Nang - University of Science and Technology (UD-DUT) has recently attained quality assurance certificates from the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) network for its three training programmes, including architecture, construction economics, and transport construction engineering. 

NDO – More than 886,000 high school students nationwide have registered to attend the national high school graduation examination 2019, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET). 

NDO – Nhan Dan Newspaper held a ceremony on April 23 to inaugurate and hand over a school in Nam Nhung village, Ngoc Linh commune, Vi Xuyen district, in the mountainous province of Ha Giang. 

NDO – The Prime Minister signed a decision on February 24, 2014 to designate April 21 as the Vietnam Book Day with an aim to honour the value of books in society, while raising the responsibilities of the agencies and sectors concerned in cultivating and fostering a reading culture in Vietnam. 

NDO/VNA – The establishment of the Vietnam Book Day has contributed greatly to restoring and developing the reading culture, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at a national conference on April 18, held to review the impacts of the Book Day since it was first observed five years ago. 

NDO/VNA – A ceremony was held in Hanoi on April 10 to launch a project on educational cooperation for sustainable changes in Vietnam’s deltas, attracting the participation of the project’s Vietnamese and Dutch partners. 

NDO/VNA – The central coastal city of Da Nang is making strides towards turning itself into an eco-smart urban area, a hub for startups and innovation, and one of the most liveable cities in Asia by 2045 under its smart city development project announced at a conference on April 10. 

NDO/VNA – The Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) held a seminar entitled “Technological and knowledge transfer ecological system: opportunities and challenges” on April 8.  

NDO/VNA – Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh City has become the only Vietnamese educational institution named in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019. 

NDO – The 27th National Student Mathematical Olympiad officially wrapped up in Nha Trang city, in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, on April 6. 

NDO/VNA – The 16th Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition (HOMC) concluded on April 5 with an award presenting ceremony held in the capital city.