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

While parents and educators both agree that it is necessary to teach sex education in primary school, they cannot agree on the way to do it.

Rabies is one of the world’s older animal diseases, which continues to cause the deaths of 55,000-60,000 people annually, mostly in Asia and Africa, said speakers at a meeting held in Hoa Binh City in response to World Rabies Day 2014 (September 28).

Nguyen Thi Minh will be always grateful for a little pink handbook she was given by her commune health station when she became pregnant again.

The Viglacera Vocational College and Proskills UK have signed a vocational training cooperation agreement.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) says that a shortage of nursery school teachers is a major problem in all cities and provinces, but the Ministry of Interior Affairs believes recruitment of more teachers is unnecessary.

High schools in HCM City will begin applying the integrated teaching method in the 2014-2015 academic year, preparing students for the new examination model, expected to begin in 2017.

Many private high schools in HCM City are on the verge of bankruptcy because of a lack of students.

Education is one of the bright spots in the multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Singapore.

A conference in Hanoi was told that 13% of deaths among children under five in Vietnam are caused by diarrhoea.

Experts have asked for tighter controls on the importation of medical equipment in a bid to improve the quality of healthcare services in Vietnam.

After five years of learning English at primary school, sixth graders in HCM City now have to learn English at secondary school.

The Ministry of Health has proposed to raise the tax rates on tobacco to 105% in 2015 and 145% in 2018.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc joined the teachers and students at the Vietnamese-Lao T78 Friendship School in Hanoi on September 23 for its ceremony to launch the 2014-2015 academic year.

After five years of learning English at primary school, sixth graders in HCM City now have to learn English at secondary school.

The upcoming National High Graduation (NHG) exam will be carried out smoothly, said Education Minister Pham Vu Luan yesterday.

Vietnam has made extensive progress towards offering universal social health insurance to its citizens, currently providing coverage to more than half and on the pathway to raising the ratio to 75% by 2015 and 80% by 2020.

Over the past decade, Vietnam has recorded remarkable progress in giving effect to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) action programme, resulting in better healthcare services for the country’s citizens.

Newly built schools in Hanoi cannot keep pace with the number of new residential quarters and urban areas being built in the city, resulting in overcrowded classrooms.

Educators in the past complained about their lack of freedom in making important decisions about school operations, and were later granted more autonomy by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). But some of them are now reluctant to use it.

As many as 300 candidates from ten ASEAN countries are expected to participate in the 10th regional skills competition at the My Dinh National Convention Centre in Hanoi from October 19-29.