Health & Education

Pham Le Thao Nguyen achieved the best result of the Vietnamese masters in the 2017 King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 26.

The Ministry of Training & Education has submitted to the government revised Education law, in which notably is the proposal to have free tuition for all public elementary and secondary schools.

After 4 years of prohibiting the middle school entrance exam, the situation of extra classes in preliminary schools have significantly reduced. However, the Ministry of Training & Education has just announced the draft circular on regulation of middle school enrollment.

It is stated that as of the academic year 2018 – 2019, Hanoi will organize the high school entrance exam with 3 compulsory subjects of mathematics, literature and foreign language, instead of only mathematics and literature as before.

Hanoi plans to put up kiosks at hospitals for people to lodge complains or their dissatisfaction about health check-ups and treatment quality via a software.

On December 20, the Hanoi Training & Education has held the meeting to evaluate its performance in 2017 and implementing tasks for 2018 for private educational institutions at the Hanoi Amsterdam High school for the gifted.

The Vietnam Airlines Corporation, its member, Vietnam Airlines Engineering Company (VAECO), and the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH) have inked an agreement to launch a Bachelor Programme on Aeronautics and a Master Programme on International Air Transport Operation Management.

Vietnam enshrined universal social health insurance (SHI) coverage in its 2013 Constitution. Vietnam targets 95% coverage of universal social health insurance by 2025.

Start-up to earn money, but students without orientation and unequipped with skills and knowledge will be dangerous. This is one of the concerns at the conference “Developing training model for start-up from high school level” held in Hanoi.

All six Vietnamese students competing at the 14th International Science Olympiads in the Netherlands won medals, three silvers, and three bronzes, according to the Hanoi Department of Education and Training.

The Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Washington DC, towards promoting scientific research cooperation.

On December 14, the Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the international workshop “Optimization algorithms and some related problems” held by the Institute of Mathematics.

Raising teachers` salary, how to assess the feasibility? There should be specific regulations on seniority allowance, class for teachers, that are proposed by experts on the draft law amending and supplementing some articles of the Education Law to improve the legislation.

During four years in Texas, Vietnamese teacher Van Tan Hoang Vy helped nearly 600 students with poor studying performance to enter universities.

Accordingly, Vietnam is the 57th among 163 surveyed nations in the recent Nature Publishing ranking in scientific research.

52 Vietnamese people have won Australia Awards Scholarships and will soon leave the country to undertake postgraduate studies at the Australian university of their choice.

According to Phuong Nam Cultural Joint-Stock Corporation (PNC), the investor in the project, two “book cities” will open in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 and 10, providing millions of books and thousands of stationery items.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has recently issued Plan No. 232/KH-UBND on organizing Action Month for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control 2017 themed “Early HIV test towards the 90–90–90 targets in 2020”.

Hanoi’s students currently participate in the International Astronomy Olympiad informed that the team has achieved excellent results with 4 medals.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has recently issued Directive No. 20/CT-UBND dated November 16 on increasing management of veterinary medicine trade and use.