Hundreds of people came to Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport Saturday to welcome home Professor Ngo Bao Chau, who won the Fields Medal – popularly known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics – in India on August 19. The mathematician, the first Vietnamese to take the world renowned prize, arrived at the airport in the morning.Also waiting at the airport with the 38-year-old professor’s family were Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien, More...

Vietnamese American Vocational Training College (VATC) on Wednesday held an award ceremony for Truong Cong Ly who is the first Vietnamese student to receive the maximum 990/990 score in a TOEIC.Joint training programmes boomingInternational training programs lack clear credentialsIn Vietnam today, the foreign scholarship chase begins earlyThe principle of Vietnamese American Vocational Training College, Nguyen The Bao (R), awards Truong Cong Ly for being More...

Nguyen Kieu Hieu, one of the two excellent students of Le Quy Don Gifted Sc hool in Da Nang and also won the silver medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad 2010, refused a scholarship worth tens thousands dollars granted by area authorities to study at a university in Hanoi.Teacher Nguyen Duy Thai Son and his two students Nguyen Kieu Hieu (right) and Pham Viet Cuong (left)Hieu decided to refuse the scholarship since it does not allow him to study More...

The 120 top university graduates and the 25 students who recorded the highest grades on their university entrance exams were honoured at a programme held in Hanoi on August 15.57 of the 120 laureates were party members who overcame difficulties during their academic years, won high prizes in national and international contests and devised ways to apply new scientific and technological advances in the cause of the city and national construction.Addressing More...