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

Thousands of young people in Hanoi gathered at Hanoi University of Science and Technology on January 25 for the blood donation festival “Red Sunday 2015” which is expected to collect some 1,000 units of blood on the first day.

KTĐT - A key task of the animal health sector this year is to avert disease epidemics among livestock, poultry and aquatic products, especially bird flu, blue-ear, foot-and-mouth, and other animal-to-human diseases, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam announced at a conference reviewing the Department of Animal Health’s 2014 performance and determining its tasks for 2015 in Hanoi on January 23. 

Lord Puttnam, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam is expected to pay his third visit to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 26-30 January.

A preliminary survey has found that most students chose physics and chemistry for the 2015 finals, and that very few students chose history and geography.

Scientists say that excessive study could be the cause of high school students’ mental health problems.

Hundreds of students from Laos and Cambodia joined with Vietnamese students in HCM City on January 18 and rolled up their sleeves to donate in excess of 150 units of blood in the lead up to the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

More and more foreign investors in the educational sector have decided to expand their operations in provinces instead of major cities like Ha Noi and HCM City.

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will provide US$3 million in non-refundable aid for the period 2015-2016 to develop an e-learning system at Hanoi Open University and share the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s experience in the field with Vietnam.

One of Hanoi’s largest job fairs will be organised by Danish Ambassador John Nielsen on January 19 at the Hanoi Foreign Trade University (FTU) for students and young people looking for their first step on the career ladder.

A seminar on developing and improving systems for child care and protection services was held in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam has announced a new programme under which the Japanese Government will provide full scholarships for Vietnamese teachers and students in 2015.

The Research Centre for Applied Mathematics in Economics, Finance and Banking was launched in Hanoi on January 12 by the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam.

The Vietnam Education Publishing House recently published a two volume 3,000 page Vietnamese language version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, which includes in excess of 25,000 word categories in 51 classifications.

A two-month inspection into the admission capacity of 93 non-state high schools across Ha Noi will be conducted by the city Department of Education and Training starting next Monday.

Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in London have struggled to retain their mother tongue as their children and grandchildren attend English speaking schools— but one school is redressing the imbalance.

The Hanoi Health Department is set to establish additional 10 methadone treatment centres for drug addicts by February 1 with the purpose of helping them reduce dependence on drugs.

There is a serious lack of O and A blood types at Blood Transfusion Centers in many provinces and cities like Hai Phong, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, and Dien Bien.

Foreign teachers employed by short-term training institutions, preschool education institutions and compulsory education institutions in Vietnam no longer need to have at least 5 years of experience in the disciplines they lecture as previously required.

A new draft of health regulations for drivers was released by the Ministry of Health last week, covering both Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese.

The Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) new mechanism on recognizing general education completion reportedly has motivated students to “buy” marks from teachers instead of studying hard.