Vietnam Pilots a Compulsory National AI-Literacy Curriculum Across Grades 1–12

Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has drafted a national framework to bring artificial-intelligence education into every classroom from grade 1 to grade 12. Development followed two MOET-run baseline surveys: an early-2024 survey of more than 11,000 students nationwide, finding 87% already aware of AI applications in education but citing limited skills, inadequate equipment and insufficient teacher guidance as barriers, and an early-2025 survey of roughly 35,000 teachers, finding 76% had already used AI in classrooms and around 70% held positive views, tempered by concerns over accuracy, data privacy and the erosion of human interaction.
The resulting curriculum is built on four compulsory strands — human-centred thinking, AI ethics (privacy, algorithmic bias, and the legal/moral limits of automated decision-making), AI techniques and applications, and AI system design — delivered at three competency levels: familiarisation for primary pupils, foundational ethics/technique/application skills at lower secondary, and creation-focused design work with critical analysis at upper secondary.
Following teacher training in December 2025, the pilot ran in selected schools from December 2025 to May 2026 under three delivery models (integration into existing subjects, standalone topics, and experiential clubs), with flexible implementation left to local capacity. MOET reviewed and assessed pilot results in June 2026 to refine the framework ahead of a broader rollout in subsequent school years; as of publication, no independently verified learning-outcome data from the pilot itself has been published, only the pre-pilot baseline surveys and the ministry's own process review.

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