Health & Education

Some of the most prestigious universities in Vietnam are considering new policies that would admit students based on their capacity instead of knowledge of facts learned at school.

Mental health is crucial since it is directly linked to the quality of life, the happiness of families, social security and the prosperity of the nation, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan has said.

The new regulation on assessment for primary school students is expected to be a breakthrough for Vietnam’s education system, one official has said.

Duong Quoc Trung, a third-year student of Haoi-based British University, won first prize in a writing contest organised by the Peruvian Embassy and the Ministry of Education and Training.

As many as 32,500 old and retired people across the nation received free health check-ups, medicine and gifts thanks to a campaign calling for more efforts in caring the health of the elderly, which began on August 3.

The number of hand-foot-mouth disease and dengue fever patients saw a sharp increase in September, and is predicted to spread more widely this month.

The educational sector has been shaken by a statement from a high school headmaster that “giving and receiving gifts” is “the same old story” that has occurred regularly at schools.

The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) in Phnom Penh on September 30 provided scholarships for 44 Cambodian finance and banking students in Vietnam and Cambodia for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Authors who have their work published in school textbooks have never received royalties from the Education Publishing House, which is the only authorized textbook publisher in Vietnam.

Belgium will present 30 full scholarships to young Vietnamese professionals within the framework of its Indicative Cooperation Programme with Vietnam for the period of 2011-2015 with the aim of supporting the country’s socio-economic development.

The UK Education Exhibition 2014 will see the largest ever number of participating institutions - 73 UK universities, colleges and schools.

Around 70 Canadian institutions will participate in the 6th Annual Canadian Education Week in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from October 5-11.

While parents and educators both agree that it is necessary to teach sex education in primary school, they cannot agree on the way to do it.

Rabies is one of the world’s older animal diseases, which continues to cause the deaths of 55,000-60,000 people annually, mostly in Asia and Africa, said speakers at a meeting held in Hoa Binh City in response to World Rabies Day 2014 (September 28).

Nguyen Thi Minh will be always grateful for a little pink handbook she was given by her commune health station when she became pregnant again.

The Viglacera Vocational College and Proskills UK have signed a vocational training cooperation agreement.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) says that a shortage of nursery school teachers is a major problem in all cities and provinces, but the Ministry of Interior Affairs believes recruitment of more teachers is unnecessary.

High schools in HCM City will begin applying the integrated teaching method in the 2014-2015 academic year, preparing students for the new examination model, expected to begin in 2017.

Many private high schools in HCM City are on the verge of bankruptcy because of a lack of students.

Education is one of the bright spots in the multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Singapore.