Education

Local officials in HCM City and Hanoi announced yesterday that schools would remain shut for at least another week due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19.

As many as 30 cities and provinces nationwide have reported to the Ministry of Education and Training on their decision to allow students back to school from February 17, after a two-week break due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The Vinh Phuc Provincial Department of Education and Training has proposed to close schools until February 23 as 38 local students have been monitored for Coronavirus infection.

The Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health and Department of Education and Training have launched a pilot smart health operation centre and a pilot smart education operation centre in the city.

Schools in HCM City will reopen from February 17 after two weeks of closing to prevent the spreading of Coronavirus.

Teachers and students of a high school in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have produced hand wash to help prevent the coronavirus spread.

More than 800 foreign students in Nghe An have left the country to avoid the Coronavirus outbreak.

Students in HCM City have been permitted to stay at home for one more week amid the rapid spread of coronavirus.

Localities have been asked to consider closing schools for one or two more weeks if coronavirus continues spreading, said Government Office Chairman and Minister Mai Tien Dung.

The northern province of Dien Bien today became the latest locality in Vietnam to shut down schools in the face of the novel coronavirus epidemic.

At least 34 school children and two teachers at a school in the northern province of Dien Bien have been isolated after being suspected of contracting the Coronavirus from their parents who returned from China for the Tet Holiday.

Schools in Vietnam have been instructed to temporarily shut down amid the quick spread of coronavirus.

Several universities in Hanoi have permitted their students to stay at home for one more week after Tet to help prevent and control the spread of coronavirus.

There is a special painting class held every weekend in HCM City, with no tuition fees, no lectures and no talking between the students and the teachers. Instead, they communicate by body language and the only sound that fills

Can Van Kiet and Can Anh Claudine have spent over 20 years teaching Vietnamese to both Vietnamese and French nationals.

For Vietnamese people living and working abroad, just listening to Vietnamese in the foreign land, the nostalgia for their homeland becomes more earnest.

The Ho Chi Minh-based Hoa Sen University is set to launch an American Studies course this year, the first of its kind at a Vietnamese university.

Students at teacher training colleges will be provided with a USD155 grant for living expenses under a condition that they must work in the education sector after graduation.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School at the Harvard University, and representatives of the Fulbright University Vietnam.