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

At the beginning of this academic year, the 10th and 12th graders at Marie Curie High School in HCM City`s District 3 were asked to fill out a questionnaire to identify any psychological problems such as depression, stress and anxiety.

The Republic of Korean organisation Vision Care in coordination with the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO) and Ha Giang Eye Hospital have provided eye care check-ups and surgery for nearly 1,000 poor and ethnic minority people in Ha Giang province.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to combine the annual national high school exam and the university entrance exam from next year. At present, they are held separately.

The Vietnam Federation for Disability in co-ordination with the Irish Aid hosted a dialogue on health insurance for handicapped people in Hanoi on September 8.

The deputy minister of Education and Training explained the details of the new instructions on methods to review and mark first-graders.

An estimated 23 million children between the ages of 1 and 14 will be vaccinated against measles and rubella following the launch of the largest-ever nationwide vaccination campaign on September 15.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), which has vowed to reform the national education system, has retracted several new policies, causing confusion.

Valedictorians with excellent marks at some universities in Vietnam cannot find jobs in their majors and have to accept positions outside their fields.

A number of scarlet fever cases suspected of measles have been recorded in the northern provinces of Son La and Hoa Binh, said the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Health Ministry.

As a new academic year approaches, HCM City authorities are worried they will not have enough kindergarten and primary school teachers.

President Truong Tan Sang on September 5 joined teachers and students at Hau Nghia high school in southern Long An province’s Duc Hoa district to attend an inaugural ceremony of the newly-built school and welcome the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year.

The Ministry of Health has issued a circular on charity health care activities to replace the one enacted in 2002.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong beat a drum on the occasion of the beginning of the new academic year on September 4 at Hanoi’s Nguyen Gia Thieu high school, which he attended nearly 60 years ago.

The failure of many of the best university graduates at the 2014 civil-service exam has raised doubts in the public’s mind about the value of university degrees and the test.

Vietnamese leaders on September 3 fanned out to school across the country for the opening of the 2014-15 school year, instilling the great passion for teaching and learning in teachers and students.

A 10-year-old scheme to reduce the number of poor students dropping out before graduation has worked so effectively in the central region and it is likely to be expanded to other provinces.

Twelfth-grade students have suggested holding a dialogue with the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) about university entrance-examination reform.

Local doctors and nurses and international experts on cancer have gathered in Hue city, central Thua Thien-Hue province, to share experience in diagnosis and treatment and care for patients.

A community-based HIV prevention project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was launched at a workshop held in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on August 29.

Children aged from 1 to 14 will receive free measles and rubella vaccination from September 15 to October 2.