Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged President Nguyen Minh Triet to assess and approve a $70-million vocational training project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). An agreement on the loan was signed in Hanoi last October by...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will invest VND13.4 billion ($687,179) in a project to train teachers for all schools this year, up 59.5% over previous years, said the Department of Education and Training.The move aims to help local schools deal...
The Ministry of Education and Training has asked agencies and teachers to keep a close watch on students in danger of dropping out of school after the Lunar New Year holiday, which falls on early February this year. “Our policy is not to let...
Educators are complaining about the virtues of school students nowadays, saying that they are lazy in expressing their opinions during lessons, and also at doing house work. Do Tan Ngoc, a teacher in Quang Ngai province, said that when it comes to...
Vietnam will raise stipends for students studying overseas under state budget funding from Feb 1, 2011 in an effort to help them cover increasing daily expenses. The information is stated in a newly-amended circular issued by the ministries of...
Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City will spend over VND2.7 trillion ($138.46 million) on a program to improve the quality of preschool education in upcoming years, said the Department of Education and Training. The sum will be mainly...
The Saigon Times Foundation (STF) under the Saigon Times Group has donated 200 scholarships worth VND80 million to ethnic students in Tra Nam Commune, Nam Tra My District in Quang Nam Province.The scholarships worth VND400,000 each will help...
The living standards of residents in Phu Xai Lai Leng Commune, in a mountainous area in Ky Son District, Nghe An Province, have much improved compared to five years ago, thanks to various activities launched by soldiers of the Economic-Military Unit...
The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group’s Phu Tho chapter on Jan. 15 handed over 53 houses, each worth 20 million VND, for poor households on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival. The northern mid-land province will also earmark...
The central province of Thua Thien – Hue has distributed 1,000 tonnes of rice from the central assistance reserve to families who were affected by flood, poor families and those who are in danger of lacking food in between crop periods. The rice...
