Vietnam is teaching AI from grade one, and the whole compulsory course is twelve lessons a year
Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training has issued an AI education framework covering grades 1 through 12, together with implementation guidance, in force from the 2026–2027 school year now starting. The compulsory core is 12 class periods per grade per year — roughly one lesson a fortnight — with an optional extension component each school schedules for itself. The syllabus is split three ways: basic for primary, basic for lower secondary, and career-oriented for upper secondary. The content covers human-centred thinking, AI ethics, AI techniques and applications, and AI system design, and schools are told to adapt it to their grade levels, their students and their own conditions. A pilot ran through the 2025–2026 year. The ministry's own database puts the system at about 50,000 institutions, more than 27 million students and over 1.4 million teachers.
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