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The Tuoi Tre Newspaper and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Hanoi City on September 19th presented scholarships (“Adding strength to university students”) to 250 needy students who have passed the recent university entrance exams from seven northern mountainous provinces. The scholarships this time total VND1.25 billion and each one includes VND 5 [...]
The Intel Vietnam Company has invested around VND87.7 billion (US$3.9 million) in high-tech technical training programs in Vietnam from 2006 to 2011, as per summary data released in August. The Company also arranged exchange visits between teachers of Vietnamese and American universities and colleges and provided all laboratory assistance. In addition, Intel Vietnam granted scholarships [...]
Miss VSAM 2011, the first beauty pageant for Vietnamese students in Malaysia, was held in Kuala Lumpur on August 20, with the attendance of many Vietnamese students from universities in the city and nearby areas. In the final round of the competition, nine contestants chosen from Vietnamese students attending Malaysian universities took part in traditional [...]
For the last six years the Putney Student Travel Organization has been organizing a volunteer group of American students to live and work in poor communes of Vietnam and help in all aspects of community living in a Vietnamese village. Ari Freedman (L) and his friend sieve sand to build houses for poor local residents [...]
The mother of a teen girl who has been sentenced to 9 months in jail for slapping a traffic policeman is petitioning for a more lenient sentence, citing her daughter committed the wrongdoing as she was afraid the motorbike – the most valuable asset in her family – would be impounded. Truong Thi Hanh told Nguoi [...]
The Ministry of Education and Training and the Student Association held a ceremony yesterday to honor all students who won awards at the 2011 International Olympiad and also those students receiving the highest marks in university entrance examinations in Hanoi. 30 of the 37 students honored at the ceremony came first in the entrance examinations [...]
The number of students, who attempted to commit suicide after they failed the university entrance exams, has been increasing. Thousands of students now can sigh with relief as they have finished the high school final exams and the university entrance exams. However, it is now the most difficult time for the students, who fail [...]
Educators and experts have rung the alarm bell over the degrading of social sciences, warning that Vietnamese students have become more and more diverged from social sciences. The number of students registering to take C-group (literature, history and geography) university entrance exams has been decreasing dramatically year after year. Meanwhile, the students, who still [...]
Returning from the Physics Olympiad in Thailand, Nguyen Huy Hoang, the gold medal winner said–it is a nice surprise for him to win the gold medal. He has also revealed that he wants to go studying in the US. Determined to attend Olympiad Nguyen Huy Hoang and his mother Nguyen Duc Long, Hoang’s father, an [...]
Female Vietnamese student Ha Vi Chau has won a full scholarship from the United World Colleges (UWC) worth nearly VND1 billion per year to study abroad in the 2011-2012 academic year. Chau, currently in the 11th grade at Nguyen Binh Khiem Gifted High School in Quang Nam province, left Vietnam on July 31 to continue [...]