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Vietnamese children aged from 6 to 15 ( from first to ninth grade) and foreign children in Vietnam are entitled to take part in the competition. Entries should be sent to the magazine’s address at 91 Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Dong Da District , Hanoi no later than November 30, 2019. The award-giving ceremony is scheduled in January, 2020. The competition aims to help children develop a sense of respect and care for the natural environment and enable students to express their thoughts and ideas of the environment they live in. Moreover, the competition organizer wants to raise awareness of schoolers about the importance of the natural environment and ways of preserving it and help students realize that each individual has a social responsibility to contribute to the protection and preservation of the environment.By MINH NGHIA - Translated by UYEN PHUONG … [Read more...] about Drawing competition launched to raise awareness of environment

Fourteen years ago, after a flash flood hit a village in the northern province of Yen Bai, Thao A Khai, then-four-year-old ethnic boy, lost all relatives. Benefactors brought him to Ho Chi Minh City and helped him go to school with Vu A Dinh scholarship fund. Truong My Hoa, former vice president of Vietnam and the chairwoman of the fund, said at a press conference held in Ho Chi Minh City that the story of Thao A Khai is one of thousand stories of ethnic minority students who can continue learning thanks to the scholarship’s assistance. Being informed as one of 50 Vu A Dinh scholarship recipients, ethnic Palang Thi Hai Yen could not hold back her delight. Coming from a poor family in a mountainous village in Tay Giang district in the central province of Quang Nam, Yen’s education might stop without the scholarship fund’s assistance. Presently, she is a staff of Tay Giang district’s Section of Economy and Infrastructure. She sent her gratitude to the … [Read more...] about Scholarship encourages ethic indigenous students

Hanoi is planning to build more swimming pools in order to teach swimming to children. A swimming lesson in Me Linh District Thousands of deaths have been caused by drowning with many of the victims being children. Statistics from Hanoi Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs show that since early 2018, drowning was the leading cause of death among children with 53 victims. 10 cases were in Ba Vi District, with the remainder in Dan Phuong, Soc Son and Chuong My districts. Hanoi authorities have a plan for swimming lessons and a drowning prevention programme during the 2016-2020 period, however, most districts don't have swimming pools so the programme is not very effective. According to Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, by the end of May, the city had 291 quality swimming pools that are managed by the local authorities. Eight out of 18 communes in Me Linh District are located by the Red River but there are only eight pools. My Duc District has two, Ung Hoa has … [Read more...] about Hanoi faces swimming pool shortage

Primary teachers have admitted fixing the results of pupils following parents' wishes so that the children have better secondary school opportunities. Illustrative photo The problems are said to originate from high-ranking secondary schools, especially those for gifted-children only accepting registration from those with excellent performance at primary schools. Principal of Vinh Tuy Secondary School in Hanoi, Nguyen Van Tam, said that he was shocked when looking at the primary school reports of the newly-accepted pupils at his school, with 80 per cent having only marks nine and 10. "Maybe the hard race to be accepted to a good secondary school had made pupils and also parents and teachers to try to have the school reports with only excellent marks," he said. "But I think this doesn’t reflect reality or the actual performance of students. We can’t have so many excellent students like that in any school." Tam also warned parents not to try to send their … [Read more...] about Selective secondary schools lead to rampant grade fixing

Vietnam and Italy signed an action programme on educational co-operation for the 2019-2022 period on June 6 and considered teaching Italian at a local public school. Vietnam and Italy sign an action programme on educational co-operation on June 6 The action programme is a part of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s ongoing official visit to Vietnam. Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phuc and the Italian Ambassador in Vietnam Antonio Alessandro signed the co-operation programme in Hanoi. Both countries will strengthen co-operation in education, language development and providing scholarships. The Italian government will consider providing textbooks as well as other materials and equipment for Italian learning in Vietnam. They also discussed starting a pilot programme to teach Italian at a public school in Vietnam. The Italian authorities will help with building the curriculum and providing teaching materials and expenses to one or more Italian … [Read more...] about Italian education co-operation promoted