Thanks to the kind hearts and innovative ideas of community members in southern areas, underprivileged children are being given the chance at a better life and education.

Preventing negative factors in the education sector, providing loans for poor students and building toilets in schools are among major concerns raised at a meeting between the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and media agencies in Hanoi on Nov. 8.

They passed the university entrance exams and have arrived in Hanoi to follow their dream of higher education. Even before they register, however, a sizeable number of students are facing serious financial problems. Many have no idea how they will pay for their education over the next four years, according to this report from Dan Tri online newspaper.

The Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) has announced a scholarship entitled “SCB – Lighting the dream of Vietnamese youth”.

The trial bilingual education programme co-launched by the Ministry of Education and Training and the United Nations Children’s Fund in 2007 has been hailed as a success by officials.

Investment in education needs to be equal to investment in development, said lawmakers yesterday, as National Assembly deputies debated a Ministry of Education and Training plan for restructuring financing for education during 2009-14.

The Republic of Korea’s (RoK) leading web portal Daum and NGO Save the Children Korea (SCK) signed an agreement on April 1 to help build a primary school in a rural area of Vietnam’s northern Quang Ninh Province.

Vocational training is now planned for the mostly Mong children in the secondary boarding schools of Ha Giang Province high in the mountains that border China north of Ha Noi.

A Kinh woman who lived with and taught the Co Tu ethnic people in Quang Nam Province for more than 20 years has become the first scholar to write extensively about their culture.