Born from one stubborn question.
"Why do brilliant Vietnamese students still lose opportunities that should have been theirs?"
Times Edu began the way every real school does — around a single kitchen table, with a single student, and a teacher who refused to let her fall behind. It was 2018, she was struggling with IGCSE Maths, and no tutor in her international school could find the time.
Seven years later, we operate a full academic centre on the 72nd floor of Vincom Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City — plus a custom-built online platform that teaches hundreds of students simultaneously across Vietnam, Singapore, the UAE, Hong Kong and beyond. But the question that started it is still the one we come back to every morning.
The gap we saw
International schools in Vietnam do excellent work. But their classes are built for the average of twenty students — not for your child. We kept meeting families where the student had real academic potential, real ambition, and real international-university dreams, and yet something in the system was quietly underdelivering. Usually it was the same thing: no dedicated mentor, no personalised roadmap, no one who actually knew how to move a predicted B to a final A*.
The model we built
So we built the opposite. One dedicated mentor per student. Personalised diagnostic. A subject-specialist match. Weekly parent reporting. Mock exams built from real past papers. Examiner-style marking. University application support baked in. None of this is revolutionary on its own — but putting it all together under one roof, with the consistency we insist on, turned out to be genuinely unusual in Vietnam.
Who we are today
Times Edu today is more than 30 specialist mentors, six international curricula, 500+ alumni, and the unwavering conviction that every Vietnamese student deserves the same mentoring infrastructure that wealthy families in London, New York and Singapore take for granted. That belief is what we are here to prove, one student at a time.