Health & Education

A national conference on the challenges to Vietnam’s food safety management was held by the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD) and the Embassy of Canada in Vietnam in Hanoi on March 19.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will be the guest of honour at a national conference exploring health and assistive technology issues to be held on March 24-25 in Thua Thien-Hue province.

Over 80 doctors have registered to join a pilot project designed to encourage young doctors to work in 62 remote and poor districts across the country, according to the Ministry of Health.

Legal document No 4555, issued on March 12 by the Health Ministry`s Drug Administration, has banned firms or individuals from producing and selling cosmetics containing ingredients of human origin.

Speakers at a conference on March 12 organised by the Hanoi Department of Education and Training said that foreign direct investment (FDI) is benefiting tertiary education in 2015.

In a landmark achievement that the doctors themselves call a miracle, a pair of in-vitro twins born 14-18 weeks premature have been nurtured to normal health at the Central Obstetrics & Gynaecology Hospital.

The wet weather currently blanketing the country was making it easier for bacteria to spread, resulting in an increase of respiratory and digestive diseases, and chicken-pox among children in both northern and southern areas, according to doctors.

Another six outstanding Vietnamese students in the Republic of Korea (RoK) were granted scholarships from the Kumho Asiana Group, each worth nearly 4,000 USD, on March 5 in Seoul.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has assigned a number of tasks to the Health Ministry to ease hospital overcrowding and improve public health care.

At the invitation of Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan, a Danish educational delegation, led by Minister of Education Christine Antorini will visit and work in Vietnam on March 4-6.

The number of s tudents from Vietnam in Japan increased by 91.6 percent to 26,439 in May 2014, the second largest among foreign students, according to the latest survey by Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO).

In a major change in Vietnamese education, the national high school graduation and the university admission exams have been fused into one.

Easing the burden on overcrowded hospitals is a priority for the government, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has said, promising to increase bed numbers at major health centres, open more satellite facilities and boost the number of family doctors.

Dr. Nguyen Van Tien, former lecturer of the College of Foreign Economic Relations (Cofer), has said the school had committed copyright infringement by using his textbook without permission.

Hanoi has rolled out a number of measures to develop its grassroots health care network in a bid to enhance capacity and service quality, thus reducing overload at central hospitals in the city.

Psychological counseling in schools has not been an official part of the education program and students still do not know where to turn when they experience difficulties in life.

Lau Thi Hoa could not hide her joy. Even her eyes smiled as she told us she was one of the students selected to sing at an important event for the district.

Teachers need to be more humane when educating students and give advice instead of punishing students if they make mistakes.

GEMS Education, a big Dubai-based schools operator, is looking at opportunities to expand during 2015 into Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries, the company`s executive director has revealed.

Central provinces have implemented a programme to help students from ethnic minority-populated and disadvantaged areas by granting them automatic admission into universities, colleges and vocational schools, as well as free tuition from the Government and employment with local authorities after graduating.