Health & Education

Vietnamese universities will have the chance to share experience and strengthen cooperation in tertiary education with their Italian counterparts at a seminar in Hanoi on May 9 and another in HCM City on May 12.

Vietnam has confirmed its first fatalities from hand-foot-mouth disease (HFM), dengue fever, rabies, and encephalitis earlier this year.

The Ministry of Health hosted a meeting themed “You Can Control Your Asthma” at Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi on May 8 in response to World Asthma Day.

Knowledge of how dengue fever spreads and key behaviours to prevent it will be disseminated in an appealing manner through a play to be staged at 21 primary schools in two HCM City districts this month.

A recent survey showed that thousands of Vietnamese students do not know what to do or how to find jobs after failing high school graduation exams and university entrance exams.

The Ministry of Health has established five nationwide inspection teams to head up hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) prevention efforts.

Vietnam is in 93rd position on the Save the Children’s 2014 Mothers’ Index – an annual ranking of the best and worst places in the world to be a mother.

Even though there have been many warnings about redundancy in the fields of finance and banking, students continue to apply to these departments for the upcoming university entrance exams.

Parents do not place high hopes in the Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) initiative on re-compiling textbooks. This is the case for parents who know how the textbook compilation process works.

Domestic investors are seeing great opportunities to dominate the international education market in Vietnam.

Measles, which has been spreading throughout Vietnam since late last year, has claimed the lives of two more children who suffered from complications caused by the disease.

Roughly 600 Vietnamese students from universities in Moscow and the surrounding area are participating in a sports festival from May 1-9.

Parents in HCM City have begun their race to find the best primary schools for their children even though the new academic year is still months away.

Vietnamese officials are joining more than 1,000 delegates at the 2014 Going Global - one of the greatest international conferences of higher education organised by the British Council – in Miami Beach from 29 April to 1 May.

Health Minister led a mission team to supervise measles prevention in hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City on April 28, she stressed pivotal role of media in raising people`s awareness to vaccination.

Book coffee shops are cropping up in major cities, attracting young people whose generation has increasingly turned its back on reading.

The Ministry of Health on April 27 reported that no new measles cases have arisen in 33 provinces for the past few days, while new cases are on the decline nationwide.

The Lao Party, State and people are extremely grateful to Vietnam for its comprehensive support of the country over the past time, especially in human resources training, Prime Minister Thongsinh Thammavong said on April 24.

The northern province of Thai Binh on April 26 launched a series of activities marking Immunisation Week, an initiative organised by the World Health Organisation - Western Pacific Region, from April 21-27.

The Health Ministry has issued a plan on giving free measles vaccinations to children under 10 years and proposed buying an extra 1.2 million doses of measles vaccines.