Health & Education

An unconventional school in HCMCity offers classes in the arts while encouraging students to think creatively.

Around 24 innovative clean-tech startups have graduated from Vietnam’s first-ever Clean Tech Bootcamp this week.

As many as 130,000-160,000 new cancer cases are reported in Vietnam every year, along with up to 115,000 cancer-related deaths, according to initial research conducted in a number of cities and provinces nationwide.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has drawn public attention by suggesting that medical and pharmaceutical schools should admit students based on their high school finals and university entrance exam results, including tests in literature.

The HCM City Economics University said last week that two textbooks by foreign authors will be used in the school’s high-quality training program.

Universities have drawn up their 2015 enrollment plans and created several new groups of exams, leaving students with more questions than answers.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on October 14 convened an urgent meeting in Hanoi to address what it considers to be the deadliest Ebola outbreak of record.

Nguyen Bich Trang had become inured to the derisive or pitying laughter that she heard sometimes when she was reading out aloud from a book to her two-month old boy.

The HCM City Department of Interior Affairs refused to accept TOEIC and TOEFL certificates for civil service examination registration, and would only take national B-level English certificates.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has kicked off a university accreditation process, but the criteria for quality assurance remain controversial.

The average height of Vietnamese men is 164 cm, 8 cm less than that of men in Japan and 10 cm less than men in South Korea.

Twenty percent of Vietnam’s population might contract cardiovascular diseases by 2017, particularly young people.

A Vietnamese language course started in Hanoi October 11 for 93 Korean students.

Tens of thousands of young college and university graduates in the Central Highlands are struggling to find good jobs and are having to resort to menial or low-skilled labour.

The decision by the government to remove junior colleges and vocational intermediate schools from the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and merge them with the vocational training system has raised major concerns.

Many teachers in schools around the country are not trained in classroom management skills and handle student behavior in inappropriate ways, parents have complained.

Shortage of land is preventing provinces and cities in the southern region from building kindergartens for children of workers at industrial prks and export processing zones as required by the Government.

Parents and primary school teachers all complain that the current curriculum is too extensive for first graders, who must adapt to a new school environment.

A delegation of Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training, led by its Minister Pham Vu Luan, had a working visit to Russia.

Up to 20 per cent of high-school students in the central city of Da Nang were found to have psychological disorders, a survey of nearly 800 teenagers at four schools has revealed.