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

​One million poor and disadvantaged residents of the country`s remote, border and island areas will receive free health services under a humanitarian community health care campaign launched here yesterday.

President Truong Tan Sang met with 78 outstanding ethnic minority students on Saturday during a ceremony honoring their achievements in the past academic year.

​The US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a programme to stimulate a market for HIV-related goods and services with the involvement of the private sector in Ho Chi Minh City on October 31.

​National Assembly deputies yesterday said appropriate measures were needed to help the economy regain high growth.

A ceremony to honour 50 elite Vietnamese students who recorded high results in their academic studies and have won international prizes has been scheduled for November 3 in Hanoi.

Around 42 workers at the Thinh Phat Ocean Import-Export Joint Stock Company in Bac Giang were hospitalised on October 29 for food poisoning.

Zuni.vn has been upgraded to be Vietnam’s first open interactive online education gate, according to the VNG Joint Stock Company on October 29.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), in an effort to ease excessive amount of homework for students, has prohibited teachers to hold after-school classes. But many instructors have ignored the ban.

Several international and private schools in Hanoi charge very high tuition fees, sometimes reaching the hundreds of millions of VND per year.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Department of Education and Training to pull the plug on its pilot project and replace it with an integrated English teaching curriculum.

The US ambassador to the UN has begun a visit to the three nations worst hit by the Ebola outbreak, criticising the level of international support so far.

More than 5,600 candidates from 123 secondary schools in Hanoi attended the first round of the 2014 TOEFL Junior Challenge for the capital city on October 26.

Vietnamese students won 10 medals in the 11th International Mathematics and Science Olympiad (IMSO) held in Bali, Indonesia, an achievement that exceeded expectations.

While plagiarism has increased at an alarming level, affecting both teaching and research, management agencies say it is difficult to control because of vague laws on the unethical practice.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is seeking the National Assembly’s approval to revise school textbooks, estimated to cost VND800 billion. While the ministry wants to be one of the compilers of the textbooks, many educators say the task should be done by experienced teachers.

Sa Pa Market, in the heart of mountainous northern province of Lao Cai, is in full swing by midday. A myriad of colours interwoven into ethnic garb enliven the bustling atmosphere.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has issued an exemption to foreign languages for the high school graduation exam next year.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is seeking the National Assembly’s approval to revise school textbooks, estimated to cost VND800 billion. While the ministry wants to be one of the compilers of the textbooks, many educators say the task should be done by experienced teachers.

The new regulation exempting students from foreign-language exams for university admission will be difficult to implement as it is too vague, students and educators believe.

Educators and medical workers are alarmed about the increasingly high proportion of students suffering stress and depression, saying that the problem is due to parental pressure and excessive homework.