Two Vietnamese universities are among the top 1,000 universities in the world, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.

The Thủ Dầu Một University and University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Information Technology Park yesterday (May 31) signed a memorandum of agreement for jointly organising an international conference titled South-Eastern Region Outlook.

Nearly 74 per cent of the 925,961 candidates taking the upcoming national high school graduation examinations have applied to universities, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Lê Thị Thuỳ Ngân, a student at Việt Nam National University HCM City (UEL), has been named the winner of the “CFO The Challenge IV 2018” contest.

Secretary of the HCM Party Committee Nguyễn Thiện Nhân has called on the IT and telecommunications sectors to work closely with local agencies in smart-city development.

Nguyễn Việt Dũng, director of HCM City Department of Science and Technology, talks to Việt Nam News about the development of science and technology and innovation in the city.

New faculties will be opened at universities during the 2018-2019 academic year, according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s new catalogue on training programmes in higher education.

The 9th Information and Communications Technology Awards were given away on December 20 by the HCM City Department of Information and Communications.

Việt Nam has an increasing incidence of respiratory diseases, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) repeatedly issuing warnings that it is among the most air-polluted countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to health experts.