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

Easing the burden on overcrowded hospitals is a priority for the government, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has said, promising to increase bed numbers at major health centres, open more satellite facilities and boost the number of family doctors.

Dr. Nguyen Van Tien, former lecturer of the College of Foreign Economic Relations (Cofer), has said the school had committed copyright infringement by using his textbook without permission.

Hanoi has rolled out a number of measures to develop its grassroots health care network in a bid to enhance capacity and service quality, thus reducing overload at central hospitals in the city.

Psychological counseling in schools has not been an official part of the education program and students still do not know where to turn when they experience difficulties in life.

Lau Thi Hoa could not hide her joy. Even her eyes smiled as she told us she was one of the students selected to sing at an important event for the district.

Teachers need to be more humane when educating students and give advice instead of punishing students if they make mistakes.

GEMS Education, a big Dubai-based schools operator, is looking at opportunities to expand during 2015 into Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries, the company`s executive director has revealed.

Central provinces have implemented a programme to help students from ethnic minority-populated and disadvantaged areas by granting them automatic admission into universities, colleges and vocational schools, as well as free tuition from the Government and employment with local authorities after graduating.

The Japanese government has come up with 337,621 USD in non-refundable aid to support the third phase of a maternal and infant healthcare project implemented in Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

Two of Vietnam’s newly recognised professors are the youngest and oldest persons receiving this title in the country since 1974, at 37 and 81 years of age.

The Health Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) was inaugurated at a ceremony on February 3 at the Ministry of Health’s General Department of Preventive Medicine, attended by Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and American Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius.

University lecturers must spend at least one-third of their academic year time on scientific research, a circular newly released by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has stipulated.

The Ministry of Education and Training’s decision to require teachers to assess student work with comments rather than grades has met with opposition.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) still has not released the national examination and enrolment regulations for 2015. Meanwhile, many universities have released their own enrolment plans.

Hanoi and HCM City education departments have vowed to reduce the number of students per class at high schools to improve training quality. But this will also have the effect of narrowing access to these schools.

Hanoi’s health sector plans to roll out specific measures to improve maternal and child nutrition in 2015, as part of its efforts to better overall maternal and child healthcare.

President Truong Tan Sang has expressed his hope that the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC) will set an example for the nation by offering training courses up to world-class standards over the next 10-15 years.

EducationUSA Advising Center, under the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Hanoi will organize its first Higher Education Fair in Hanoi as part of the activities celebrating the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam.

President Truong Tan Sang has asked the Viet Nam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) to take a leading role in the country’s university system and become a regional educational institution.

Vietnam would like the UK to share its experience in education and provide it with technical assistance. Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam made the statement on January 26 while receiving the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Lord David Terence Puttnam, in Hanoi.