Vietnam will roll out artificial-intelligence (AI) lessons across its general education system, from grade 1 to grade 12, starting in the 2026-2027 school year, according to a decision issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.
The ministry set the AI education framework in mid-August, after a pilot in the 2025-2026 year. The AI content features two stages of basic education, covering primary and secondary schools, and career orientation at high schools.
The content focuses on human-centered thinking, AI ethics, AI techniques and applications, and AI system design. A compulsory core of 12 periods per academic year covers essential knowledge and skills, with an extension component scheduled at each school’s discretion.
At primary level, students will mainly try simple, visual AI applications to grasp basic concepts and recognize AI’s role in daily life. Pupils will also learn personal data protection and copyright.
At secondary schools, students will learn to use AI tools to make digital products and solve study problems, gain grounding in the principles behind AI, and begin forming a sense of ethics and civic responsibility in a digital society.
At high schools, students will be encouraged to explore, design, and improve simple AI tools through science projects, with an emphasis on problem-solving, creativity and command of AI tools. The target is that they can build products for their communities and set a direction for future careers.
At the national review of academic year 2025-2026 on Thursday, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung pressed the education sector to bring AI into teaching at levels suited to each grade and to promote its selective use, alongside stronger digital and STEM skills. Hung called for faster action on digital transformation, urging that education databases be linked to national data systems.
The ministry said its database had been connected to the national population system and the VNeID digital-identity platform, covering about 50,000 institutions, more than 27 million students and over 1.4 million teachers. A separate national AI competency framework can complete by June 2027.