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 2015 exam finals will take place in six months, but things are still in a stir and a jumble. Students disagree about many new regulations the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has attempted to set.

While many schools rush to import textbooks to use in their teaching, the most famous schools in Vietnam still stand apart from the movement.

Educators have repeatedly called for “university autonomy” for years, but are now uncertain about the level of income that can be generated by tuition and other fees.

​The Government has abolished a regulation requiring foreign teachers to have at least five years of teaching experience in order to work at foreign-invested kindergartens and general education schools.

The proposals by general schools to use foreign textbooks has been refused by the watchdog agency, even though imported foreign textbooks are popular in tertiary education in Vietnam.

​New amendments to the health insurance law will expand benefits, increase coverage among poor people and encourage more people to join plans, a senior official has said.

New amendments to the health insurance law will expand benefits, increase coverage among poor people and encourage more people to join plans, a senior official said on Tuesday.

​About one quarter of Vietnamese women in post-menopause suffer from osteoporosis, said experts from the Institute of Social and Medical Studies (ISMD) at a workshop in Hanoi on December 23.

​More than 40 doctors from the Japanese Cleft Palate Foundation led by Prof. Nagato Natsume have worked on a programme to offer free surgery to 60 children born with harelip and cleft palate in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre.

​A consultative workshop on hospital autonomy, the quality of hospital services and management took place in Hanoi, with both domestic and international experts in attendance.

​The Ministry of Health introduced on-line public services level 4 to help food production and trading companies in applying for certifications on meeting food safety regulations and conditions.

VND 3 bilion will be presented to excellent students, Prof. Dr. LE TRAN BINH. Vice – Rector of University of Science and Technology of Hanoi said.

​A team from Foreign Trade University Ho Chi Minh City last week was named the winner of the fourth CFA Institute Research Challenge in Vietnam, the national final of the annual international competition considered as the “Investment Olympics” for university students.

From December 15 to December 25, the PetroVietnam Fertilizer and Chemicals Joint Stock Corporation (PVFCCo) has awarded “Phu My Fertilizers” scholarships to nearly 500 students.

​More than 12.36 million children across Vietnam have safely received free measles-rubella shots as a national free vaccination campaign in its second phase, said the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine.

​The Ministry of Education and Training on Tuesday organised the closing ceremony for the Education Initiative for Sustainable Development (ESD), started in March 2013 jointly with the UNESCO.

​More than 12.36 million children across Vietnam have safely received free measles-rubella shots as a national free vaccination campaign is in its second phase, said the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine.

HCM City authorities have decided that e-textbooks will be used at schools in the city instead of print textbooks, as part of its education modernization program.

​As many as 453 patients born with cleft lip and palates in the southern provinces of Binh Duong and Binh Phuoc have benefited from a free surgery project, with the support of the Republic of Korea’s Il Woong Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation since 1994.

​As many as 30 doctors and medical workers from the Singapore Armed Forces’ Medical Corps will join hands with their Vietnamese colleagues to provide medical examinations for local people in Binh Xuyen district, northern Vinh Phuc province, in next April.