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On August 24, a student at the HCM City Agriculture and Forestry University dumped five litres of acid onto Dang Huu Dung, 51, Deputy Dean of the Mechanics-Technology Faculty of the university. A wounded student at Thu Duc Hospital Witnesses related that while Dung was giving an English lecture to several hundred students, a young [...]
A quick survey of 120 university mathematics majors last school year showed that many of them wished to shift to other study branches, while others said they did not know what they would do after they graduate. The survey was conducted by the Mathematics-Informatics Faculty of the HCM City University of Natural Sciences. Associate Professor [...]
Students are keen to study economics and IT, but increasingly less interested in fields like mathematics and the sciences, leading professors to worry about Vietnam’s future technological strength. “When our faculty was divided into mathematics and information technology (IT), only four students remained to study math,” Associate Professor Dang Duc Trong at the HCM …
Though social institutions and families have made great efforts to help HIV-infected children integrate into society, they still have been unable to entirely remove the barrier of discrimination which has been keeping many students away from public schools. At 9 am on August 17, the managing board of An Nhon Dong Primary School in …
The Ministry of Education and Training will award full scholarships to study abroad for the first time. The ministry would also grant scholarships to students with top marks in each of the categories for fields of study categorised as A, B, C, D and V. Eligible students must have scored a perfect 30/30 in their [...]
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has discussed with French Ambassador to Vietnam Herve Bolot a number of issues on how to accelerate the establishment of the Hanoi University of Technology. The public Hanoi University of Technology, one of Vietnam’s research universities at international standards, will be built in the Hoa Lac high-tech zone under State [...]
Nguyen Thanh Tinh (L) studies for his university entrance exams with his friend Le Lanh at their boarding house in Thu Duc District, HCM City. Not everybody who sat this year’s university entrance exams came straight from school. For some who failed last year’s exams, the key to a better education is to never give [...]