Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has confirmed that the AI education curriculum pilot — which ran across grades 1 to 12 from December 2025 to May 2026 — will be reviewed in June 2026 with results informing a broader national rollout beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year. The curriculum framework is organised around four core strands: human-centred thinking, AI ethics, AI techniques and applications, and AI system design, with content tailored to students’ age and cognitive development.
Three delivery models are being tested during the pilot phase: integration of AI content into existing subjects; teaching selected standalone AI topics; and organising experiential activities and clubs. MoET has also issued a circular embedding AI competency content into curricula and is preparing enforcement guidance under the AI Law (effective 1 March 2026) as it applies to education. Multiple provinces are already providing teacher training — for example, 4,000 teachers in Quang Tri province completed an “AI in Education” course on the Khan Academy platform, and Hanoi, Tuyen Quang, and other localities have organised similar programmes.
If the June 2026 review leads to a formal MoET directive mandating AI curriculum across all schools from 2026-2027, the situation would represent an upgrade from the current pilot status to a binding national curriculum (dim 2). The post-pilot review outcome is therefore a key near-term watch item. At present the curriculum remains in pilot/voluntary status, and the ethics strand (dim 3) is confirmed as part of the framework design.