Health & Education

The Japanese government has come up with 337,621 USD in non-refundable aid to support the third phase of a maternal and infant healthcare project implemented in Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

Two of Vietnam’s newly recognised professors are the youngest and oldest persons receiving this title in the country since 1974, at 37 and 81 years of age.

The Health Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) was inaugurated at a ceremony on February 3 at the Ministry of Health’s General Department of Preventive Medicine, attended by Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and American Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius.

University lecturers must spend at least one-third of their academic year time on scientific research, a circular newly released by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has stipulated.

The Ministry of Education and Training’s decision to require teachers to assess student work with comments rather than grades has met with opposition.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) still has not released the national examination and enrolment regulations for 2015. Meanwhile, many universities have released their own enrolment plans.

Hanoi and HCM City education departments have vowed to reduce the number of students per class at high schools to improve training quality. But this will also have the effect of narrowing access to these schools.

Hanoi’s health sector plans to roll out specific measures to improve maternal and child nutrition in 2015, as part of its efforts to better overall maternal and child healthcare.

President Truong Tan Sang has expressed his hope that the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC) will set an example for the nation by offering training courses up to world-class standards over the next 10-15 years.

EducationUSA Advising Center, under the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Hanoi will organize its first Higher Education Fair in Hanoi as part of the activities celebrating the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam.

President Truong Tan Sang has asked the Viet Nam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) to take a leading role in the country’s university system and become a regional educational institution.

Vietnam would like the UK to share its experience in education and provide it with technical assistance. Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam made the statement on January 26 while receiving the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Lord David Terence Puttnam, in Hanoi.

Thousands of young people in Hanoi gathered at Hanoi University of Science and Technology on January 25 for the blood donation festival “Red Sunday 2015” which is expected to collect some 1,000 units of blood on the first day.

KTĐT - A key task of the animal health sector this year is to avert disease epidemics among livestock, poultry and aquatic products, especially bird flu, blue-ear, foot-and-mouth, and other animal-to-human diseases, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam announced at a conference reviewing the Department of Animal Health’s 2014 performance and determining its tasks for 2015 in Hanoi on January 23. 

Lord Puttnam, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam is expected to pay his third visit to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 26-30 January.

A preliminary survey has found that most students chose physics and chemistry for the 2015 finals, and that very few students chose history and geography.

Scientists say that excessive study could be the cause of high school students’ mental health problems.

Hundreds of students from Laos and Cambodia joined with Vietnamese students in HCM City on January 18 and rolled up their sleeves to donate in excess of 150 units of blood in the lead up to the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

More and more foreign investors in the educational sector have decided to expand their operations in provinces instead of major cities like Ha Noi and HCM City.

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will provide US$3 million in non-refundable aid for the period 2015-2016 to develop an e-learning system at Hanoi Open University and share the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s experience in the field with Vietnam.