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

The Centre for Thai studies was inaugurated at a ceremony held on May 7 at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City with the attendance of Thai princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, among others.

The Hanoi Department of Health has required all medical units to build and implement a plan for hygienic hospital in 2015 and to commit this target.

The Honda Young Engineer and Scientist’s Award (Y-E-S Award) was launched on May 4 at eight universities across Vietnam.

A phase 1 clinical trial of an inactivated influenza A/H5N1 pandemic vaccine candidate (IVACFLU-H5N1), involving 75 participants in southern Long An province`s Ben Luc district, has so far proven to safely induce immune responses at various dosage levels in healthy adults.

Thirty pharmaceutical businesses and 62 medicine products were awarded the prize "Vietnamese Medicine Star" by the Ministry of Health April 22.

The 11th Conference of the Association of Francophone Universities (AUF) in the Asia-Pacific opened in Hanoi on April 23, gathering representatives of 84 member universities from 10 regional countries.

Eighty Vietnamese outstanding students in the 2014-2015 academic year were each granted scholarships worth US$300 from the Japanese FUYO Foundation at the 17th FUYO scholarship awarding ceremony held in Hanoi on April 21.

Senior representatives from Australia’s Regional University Network (RUN) are on a visit to Vietnam from April 20-24 to develop research partnerships with Vietnamese universities and institutes in agriculture, forestry, regional development and sustainable development.

Vietnam’s surveillance of adverse events following vaccination meets the requirements of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said experts from the organisation.

A charity on Friday unveiled the Luong Van Can Scholarships for university students in Viet Nam and abroad and solicited donations from businesses and individuals and fee waiver from universities.

Vietnamese and British scientists discussed joint research on infectious diseases when meeting at a workshop on cooperation between Vietnam and the UK on the diseases held in Hanoi on April 14.

All of the country`s private hospitals and staff have received operating and working licences, compared to 73-95 percent of staff at public hospitals, a representative of the Ministry of Health said April 13 at the 10th plenary session of the National Assembly`s Social Affairs Committee held in Ho Chi Minh City.

A conference was held in Rome, Italy on April 9 for Vietnamese and Italian universities to explore opportunities for training partnerships.

President Truong Tan Sang has urged the National Defence Academy of Vietnam to raise its trainees’ awareness of the nation’s strategy to protect the Fatherland in the new context, firmly safeguard national territorial integrity and ensure a peaceful environment for the country’s development.

German Industry and Commerce Vietnam (GIC) is funding an exchange programme in two German cities between Vietnamese and German stakeholders and decision makers on vocational training.

Representatives from over 25 member universities of the ASEAN University Network (AUN) gathered at the annual Steering Committee Meeting of the ASEAN Credit Transfer System (ACTS) in Hanoi on April 1-2.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has asked high schools to continue the teaching schedule until May 31, but teachers and students say they need more time to prepare for upcoming high school exams.

Russia plans to provide 795 scholarships for Vietnam in 2015, up from 650 in 2014, and is going to reach the number to 1,000 in 2018.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged the Ministry of Health to establish additional geriatric wards in hospitals and coordinate with the Vietnam Social Insurance to intensify healthcare access for the elderly – who currently number 9.4 million, accounting for 10.45 percent of the total population.

American partners and the Ministry of Health are collaborating to build a national accreditation system that certifies the quality of continuing medical education (CME), according to the media release issued by the US Embassy in Vietnam.