Bloody junior high school student

A high school student in Gia Lai Province has set up 15 charity projects to help students from low-income families. Le Van Phuc Le Van Phuc, a 12th grader at Hung Vuong High School, is leading the Fly to Sky Charity Club. Phuc has had outstanding academic achievements. He has been an outstanding student for eleven academic years and won third prize at provincial and national geography competitions. He was also selected to attend the 8th Vietnam Youth Union National Congress. "I have loved geography since I was in 10th grade. I started reading more books about it which helped me a lot during the competitions," he said. "I have never stopped reading books and online. Continuous learning has expanded my vision and I have also visited authors to learn more." Phuc will be admitted to the university after winning third prize in the national geography competition. Phuc said he wanted to continue learning geography at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National … [Read more...] about High school student devotes to charity works

It is not uncommon for public servants in Vietnam to lack a high school diploma due to previous educational standards in the country A 54-year-old deputy chief inspector in Gia Lai Province, located in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, was among the province’s oldest examinees sitting for this year’s national high school test. The provincial Department of Education and Training said on Tuesday that the locality had five test takers over 53 years old. Among them is Mai Xuan Khiem, 54, the current deputy chief inspector of the Gia Lai Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.  As is common amongst older local government officials in Vietnam, Khiem never graduated from high school. Both the education department and Tran Thi Hoai Thanh, director of the provincial labor department, confirmed the information. During a phone interview with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, Khiem said his existing degrees are sufficient to work as a public official. “The … [Read more...] about ​​54-yo deputy chief inspector takes shot at Vietnam’s national high school exam

Photo: Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper Michelle Obama was joined by US actress Julia Roberts, Vietnamese actress Ngo Thanh Van, Vietnamese American actress Lana Condor, YouTuber Liza Koshy, and MC Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former US President George W. Bush, on a visit to Can Giuoc High School in the Mekong Delta province of Long An on December 9. Throughout the event, Michelle Obama and her entourage held exchanges with former members of the program which aims to support the education of adolescent girls through the GOA fund under the Obama Foundation. During the occasion, former first lady Obama expressed her pleasure at visiting Vietnam and having the opportunity to meet former program members who had been able to achieve great success in their life after overcoming many obstacles. She expressed her desire to see donations improve the overall program to provide greater support to adolescent girls, before adding that she hoped artists would inspire them. After the visit to … [Read more...] about Former US first lady pays visit to high school in Vietnam

Tram Nguyen, country director for Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia at Google Asia Pacific, introduces the Coding for the Future with Google project in HCM City on December 5. — VNS Photo Google launched the second phase of the "Coding for the Future with Google" project on December 5 saying it seeks to equip Vietnamese students with coding and internet safety knowledge and efficient internet usage and develop their creative thinking. The project, sponsored by Google and organized by the Dariu Foundation, will train 150,000 students at 300 schools in 15 provinces in 2019-20, 100 times the number it trained in the first phase last year. Besides, 350 teachers will also be trained. The second phase will involve content such as Scratch and Robotics logical coding, micro:bit application and online safety. The first phase saw over 10,000 hours of Scratch programming training provided to 1,300 primary school students and 30 teachers at 10 public schools in HCM City and Vinh Long and Tien … [Read more...] about Google launches 2nd phase of training for school students

Le Hoang Long, a first-grade student at the Gateway International School in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District, died on his second day to school on Tuesday. He was brought to the E Hospital, a public hospital in Cau Giay, with no pulse and blood pressure. He had been found unconscious in the school bus at 4:20 p.m. by the school staff. Long’s family, who only learned of his absence from school in the afternoon, agreed to have an autopsy done to identify the time and cause of death. The boy is his parents' only child. The results show Long had died before arriving at the hospital, Cau Giay District officials said at a press conference on Wednesday. They did not reveal the cause of death. The district police were informed of the situation on Tuesday afternoon and they summoned the school authorities, bus driver Doan Quy Phien, and Nguyen Bich Quy, an assistant traveling with the students on the bus for questioning. "Based on initial testimonies, we've decided that there are signs of … [Read more...] about Police open criminal probe into first grader’s death in Hanoi school bus