Health & Education

One of Hanoi’s largest job fairs will be organised by Danish Ambassador John Nielsen on January 19 at the Hanoi Foreign Trade University (FTU) for students and young people looking for their first step on the career ladder.

A seminar on developing and improving systems for child care and protection services was held in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam has announced a new programme under which the Japanese Government will provide full scholarships for Vietnamese teachers and students in 2015.

The Research Centre for Applied Mathematics in Economics, Finance and Banking was launched in Hanoi on January 12 by the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam.

The Vietnam Education Publishing House recently published a two volume 3,000 page Vietnamese language version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, which includes in excess of 25,000 word categories in 51 classifications.

A two-month inspection into the admission capacity of 93 non-state high schools across Ha Noi will be conducted by the city Department of Education and Training starting next Monday.

Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in London have struggled to retain their mother tongue as their children and grandchildren attend English speaking schools— but one school is redressing the imbalance.

The Hanoi Health Department is set to establish additional 10 methadone treatment centres for drug addicts by February 1 with the purpose of helping them reduce dependence on drugs.

There is a serious lack of O and A blood types at Blood Transfusion Centers in many provinces and cities like Hai Phong, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, and Dien Bien.

Foreign teachers employed by short-term training institutions, preschool education institutions and compulsory education institutions in Vietnam no longer need to have at least 5 years of experience in the disciplines they lecture as previously required.

A new draft of health regulations for drivers was released by the Ministry of Health last week, covering both Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese.

The Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) new mechanism on recognizing general education completion reportedly has motivated students to “buy” marks from teachers instead of studying hard.

The 2015 exam finals will take place in six months, but things are still in a stir and a jumble. Students disagree about many new regulations the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has attempted to set.

While many schools rush to import textbooks to use in their teaching, the most famous schools in Vietnam still stand apart from the movement.

Educators have repeatedly called for “university autonomy” for years, but are now uncertain about the level of income that can be generated by tuition and other fees.

​The Government has abolished a regulation requiring foreign teachers to have at least five years of teaching experience in order to work at foreign-invested kindergartens and general education schools.

The proposals by general schools to use foreign textbooks has been refused by the watchdog agency, even though imported foreign textbooks are popular in tertiary education in Vietnam.

​New amendments to the health insurance law will expand benefits, increase coverage among poor people and encourage more people to join plans, a senior official has said.

New amendments to the health insurance law will expand benefits, increase coverage among poor people and encourage more people to join plans, a senior official said on Tuesday.

​About one quarter of Vietnamese women in post-menopause suffer from osteoporosis, said experts from the Institute of Social and Medical Studies (ISMD) at a workshop in Hanoi on December 23.