Students are required to spend at least 30 minutes a day studying English on their own, with support from their teachers.

Plans are being drawn up to stockpile medicines in hospitals and a disease control center in Hanoi.

Hanoi has the largest education network in the country, with 2,913 schools, 2.3 million students, and nearly 130,000 teachers

A Vietnam-Cambodia friendship school was inaugurated in Daun Keo city in Cambodia’s Takeo province on September 26.

The Ha Nam Vocational College in the northern province of Ha Nam and the Yeungnam University in the Republic of Korea sealed an agreement on education cooperation in the Vietnamese province..

The land, people and education of Spain were introduced at a workshop in Vietnam, which is expected to help the Vietnamese locality access educational cooperation opportunities with the European nation.

The Ministry of Health held a workshop on the implementation of the second phase of European Union-funded Vietnam Health Sector Policy Support Programme (HSPSP-2) in Hanoi on September 18.

Schools for the gifted are defined as the incubators which help grow up talented students into excellent scientists and professionals. However, in Vietnam, many students go to the schools just because they want to have better learning conditions which help them pass the entrance exams to universities.

The fourth phase of a long-term education project between Vietnam and Russia is underway, expected to help consolidate cooperation in science and technology between the two countries.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh reiterated education is Vietnam’s top national policy while attending the Vietnam-UK Education Forum held in London, the UK, on September 11.

Japan-based Toshiba Corporation and the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC) celebrated 10 years of the Toshiba scholarship on September 11.

KTĐT - Health experts from ASEAN nations will participate in the 10th senior officials' meeting on health development (SOMHD) slated for Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from September 14-17. 

The health of two patients in Viet Duc Hospital, who received liver and heart transplants from a brain-dead patient in HCM City`s Cho Ray Hospital on September 4, is improving.

In the morning of September 5, more than 2,800 students the Hanoi - Amsterdam gifted high school participated in the opening ceremony of the new academic year 2015-16. Hanoi Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi attended the event.

In the morning of September 5, nearly 2,000 teachers and students of the Chu Van An high school in Tay Ho district, Hanoi, attended the opening ceremony of the new academic year 2015-16.

Chairman of Hanoi People`s Committee Nguyen The Thao joined in the opening day of the new academic year 2015-16 with teachers and students of Giang Vo secondary school on September 5.

President Truong Tan Sang has urged the education sector to continue urgent reforms in education and training ahead of the start of the new academic year.

On 5th Sep with jubilant, flock atmosphere of back-to-school day, all the schools in national scale simultaneously held the ceremony to start the new academic year to welcome semester of 2015 – 2016.

According to a conclusion during the recent Government meeting on excellent universities, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged upgrades of Hanoi National University and HCM City National University to exceptional tertiary education facilities towards regional and international standards by 2020.

"Vietnam actively took action to prevent diseases that could be transmitted from animals to humans", said Nguyen Thanh Long, Deputy Health Minister at an international health conference on August 25 in Hanoi.

Vietnam beated Hong Kong (China) 5-1 in the finale on August 23 and was crowned champion at the Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2015 held in Indonesia.

The eighth Vietnam International Dental Exhibition and Congress themed "International dental bridge" took place in Hanoi on August 19.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga signed Document No. 4192 on August 18 giving instructions to Education and Training Departments across the country on the school-year opening ceremony.