Education

Police in the northern province of Phu Tho have launched an investigation into a local high school headmaster who has been accused of sexually abusing many boy students.

A workshop took place in Hanoi on December 13 to seek ways to expand learning clubs promoting childcare in the first 1,000 days which, according to the UNICEF, is important to children’s future health and development.

Vietnamese contestants bagged four gold medals at the 15th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) held in Botswana from December 2-10.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a USD78 million financing package to help Vietnam’s labor force meet market demands by improving the quality of national technical and vocational education and training institutions.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently released Decision 1677/QD-TTg to ratify the Project on early childhood education development in the 2018-2025 period.

The Ministry of Education and Training has just held an international workshop to improve English teaching quality in Vietnam.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc called upon Vietnamese students to have political firmness; pursue revolutionary ideology; and stay away from materialistic lifestyle.

All pupils and students in the central city of Danang have been told to stay at home today, December 10, due to serious flooding caused by torrential rains over the recent days.

HCM City’s authorities are planning to install 315 cameras at local kindergartens at the cost of VND3.2bn (USD137,000) to prevent child abuse.

Vietnamese students from 15 universities in Moscow, Russia, gathered at the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute (MISI) on December 6 to introduce and promote Vietnamese culture to international friends.

Teachers in the central highlands province of Dak Nong are calling for financial support to help improve nutrition among pupils.

The authorities in HCM City are searching for new methods to increase the number of classes in the city because of a lack of land.

The Ministry of Education and Training has requested the Hanoi Department of Education and Training to investigate an incident in which a local primary pupil was slapped by his classmate under the teacher’s instruction.

Education and training are one of the priorities in Vietnam-US cooperative relations, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a reception for Prof. Thomas Vallely, Director of the Vietnam Programme at the Harvard University, in Hanoi on December 5.

Thousands of young people in HCM City have lined up over the past few days in order to take the TOEIC test as fast as they can before new updates are implemented next year.

Twenty disadvantaged students with outstanding academic results of the Hue University received Japanese-funded scholarships worth 300 USD each at a ceremony held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on December 3.

The first Vietnamese Young Intellectual Forum (VYI) has been held in Danang from November 27 to 29 to connect and strengthen local academics.

The Vietnamese-German University (VGU) is a key part of the educational cooperation between Vietnam and Germany, particularly Hessen state, heard a recent seminar in Wiesbaden city, Hessen.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha admitted that he was really sad to hear about the case of a local teacher in Quang Binh ordering pupils to slap a classmate 231 times.