Social development
Action programme to promote all-round development of children
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently signed off a national action programme for children for 2021 – 2030, aiming to ensure the realisation of children’s rights and their all-round development and create a safe, healthy, and friendly living environment for them.Keep reading ...
Vietnam promotes women’s participation in policy-making process
Vietnam targets 60 percent of women holding key positions in the state management agencies by 2025, and the figure is expected to rise to 75 percent by 2030 under a programme recently approved by the Prime Minister.The programme on enhancing equal participation of women in ...
Việt Nam to accelerate socio-economic development among ethnic minorities
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Committee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs (CEMA) on Monday launched a project to help partners from central to local level promote their roles and strengths in designing and experimenting innovative solutions to accelerate poverty reduction among ethnic minorities.With ...
Workshop seeks ways to protect, promote human rights amid COVID-19
Protecting and promoting human rights in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic was the theme of a workshop jointly held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Hanoi on December 15.The country proposed the International Day of ...
ADB provides training for women-owned SMEs
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has selected MVV Education’s two technologies, Consultant Anywhere and Everlearn, to implement a COVID-19 business counseling and training programme for 500 women-owned small- and medium-sized enterprises (WSMEs) in Vietnam.The programme will focus on providing tools to improve their capacity management capacity and skillsets to ...
Vocational schools told to foster entrepreneurship among students, modernise teaching methods
The Government’s Project 1665 for supporting students’ start-ups until 2025 has created favourable conditions for students who want to start their own business, and attracted the participation of enterprises, investment funds, other investors, and organisations and individuals in the country and abroad.Project 1665 was approved by the ...
Vietnam ranks first among region’s primary school student learning outcomes: report
Vietnam ranks first among Southeast Asian countries in terms of primary school student learning outcomes under the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) programme. The news was announced at an online conference of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) on December 1, held ...
Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities Congress promotes solidarity
The ongoing 2nd National Congress of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities is an important political event, a festival of national unity and consensus. Its theme this year is “Under the glorious flag of the Communist Party of Vietnam, ethnic minority groups have equal status and unite, respect, and support each other ...
Van Cuong
Technology empowers people with disabilities
Twenty-two people with visual impairments are attending a digital business training and coaching course for four months in Hà Nội to help them adapt to the fourth industrial revolution and co-exist with COVID-19. The trainees are mostly selling products online or working to become sale ...
Universities with autonomy lack right to hire lecturers
Covered by the Law on Public Employees, universities with autonomy don’t have the right to make decisions in recruitment, increase pay for talented lecturers, or dismiss incapable workers.The state wants to transfer autonomy in personnel to universities, but requires universities to recruit civil servants only. ...
Le Huyen
