Health & Education

Vietnamese teachers and students have been participating in many meaningful activities to show their patriotism these days.

Vietnam has won six silver medals at the 2014 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiads (APIO 2014) held in Kazakhstan from May 3 to 4, announced the Ministry of Education and Training.

Vietnamese students won one gold, four silver, two bronze medals at the 15th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO), was held at Singapore from May 11-15, according to Ministry of Education and Training.

More than 1,000 students from Phan Huy Chu Secondary School in Dong Da District, Hanoi, formed a living map of Vietnam to show their patriotism during East Sea tensions.

Sharing updated information about what is occurring on the East Sea, joining mass demonstrations in protest against the Chinese provoking activities, calling on Vietnamese to unite to protect the territory – Vietnamese students have followed different paths to show their patriotism.

Vietnam National University (VNU) – Hanoi remained the country’s top university based on the latest rankings released by QS (Quacquarelli Symond), leading two other Vietnamese schools in the list of Asia’s best universities.

The number of hand, foot and mouth (HFM) cases this year are likely to increase significantly compared to last year, according to the Ministry of Health.

Authorities in HCM City are working to solve an ongoing shortage of preschool teachers, which is becoming a serious issue in meeting demand and quality standards for early childhood education.

A leading Vietnamese epidemiologist has warned the dengue virus is likely to mutate genetically, making it difficult to combat the disease.

Measures to radically improve the quality of teaching in Vietnam through teacher initiated curriculum innovation were the focus of a recent roundtable held at Sorbonne University, France.

Three Vietnamese students will attend the Microsoft Office Specialist Word Championship 2014 (MOSWC) due to take place in California, the US, from July 27-30.

This year, pedagogical universities in Vietnam have received a sharp fall in the number of applications after a warning about the teacher redundancy.

Clinics and consulting rooms have reported sharp increases in the numbers of patients who are students suffering from mental and emotional disorders due to the hard pressures of the exam season.

The country reported 41 new incidences of measles on May 12, bringing the total number of cases to 4,395 since the beginning of the year.

HCM City authorities constantly complain about the serious shortage of preschool teachers, but their proposal on training scale enlargement has not been approved.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the health sector to take great pains to prevent contagious diseases from spreading across the community as summer is approaching.

Pham Huong Thao, a 7th grader from Chu Van An secondary school in Haiphong has won first prize in the 43rd Universal Postal Union (UPU) International Letter Writing Contest launched in Vietnam.

Local education and training departments have all reported significant declines in the numbers of students registering to sit the university entrance exams.

General school teachers say they are tired of their profession because they are under too much pressure.

Many universities in Vietnam are trying by all means to attract lecturers with doctorate degrees to meet the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET)’s quotas to open new departments or reopen closed ones.