Health & Education

More than 900,000 high school students nationwide are sitting graduation exams, starting on June 2.

Vietnam and Japan jointly held a training course for 600 Vietnamese students in Tokyo which saw the participation of 36 Japanese schools from Tokyo, Kanto and Koshin Etsu.

Official statistics of the Health Ministry show that since the beginning of the year, 4,857 measles cases have been reported, 76.5% of them children under the age of 10.

Diabetes in Vietnam is becoming increasingly common and is on the rise nationwide, especially in the metropolitan and areas surrounding industrial zones.

Thanks to remarkable results in Kon Tum province, Helen Keller International is expanding a project providing care for pupils’ eyes in Nam Dinh and Hanoi.

Educators keep complaining that they don’t have enough money to spend on programs to reform schools, but in reality they are not using all the money allocated to them.

The Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Nguyen Thi Hai Chuyen, spoke to the Viet Nam Economic Times about initiatives to help get young people into jobs.

Many education consultancy centers have opened to help Vietnamese students win scholarships to prestigious schools in the US.

Many schools in Vietnam have been reporting extremely high test results, while the actual quality education is deficient.

The annual water shortage has affected thousands of residents in the southern province of Kien Giang`s Kien Hai island district, but local authorities have no solution for the repeated situation.

The headmaster of Hanoi Law University, Phan Chi Hieu, said that the university is preparing a plan to open an international marine law faculty for submission to the Ministry of Education and Training this year.

A headmaster in a remote district of the Central Highlands Province of Gia Lai has won the respect of the local community for for personally borrowing hundreds of millions of VND to build a school.

More and more students are opting to choose senior high school instead of vocational school in HCM City as enrollment continues to drop for the 2014-15 academic year.

More and more students are “sitting in the wrong classes”, placed in a higher grade that does not suit their learning capabilities.

Vietnamese university seniors have expressed their worries and fears as they are about to graduate school. Many of them are likely to face unemployment as the national economy slowly recovers.

The headmaster of Hanoi Law University, Phan Chi Hieu, said that the university is preparing a plan to open an international marine law faculty for submission to the Ministry of Education and Training this year.

Mathematics is a very important science, but not attractive to Vietnamese students. Mathematicians cannot find a breeding ground in Vietnam for their field.

Vietnam has made remarkable progress in reducing the fatality rates of mothers and children under five, said Deputy Health Minister, Nguyen Viet Tien.

Educators are reeling over the surprisingly low number of students registering to sit the university entrance exam. It is foreseeable that schools will not have enough students enrolling.

Since the beginning of this year, the Central Highland province of Lam Dong has reported 140 suspected cases of measles, including 16 tested samples proving positive for the deadly virus.