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City schools to boost tuition costs

HCM CITY — Tuition costs at primary and secondary schools in HCM City increases by a minimum of 10 percent the following academic year, based on the city's Department of Education and Training.The department has completed its new plan on tuition costs, which is dependant on Government Degree No.46 that concentrates on tuition costs at Condition-possessed schools between 2010 and 2015, based on the department's deputy director Le Hoai Nam.Underneath the plan, tuition costs won't be any a lot more than 5

Public parking costs set to increase

Public parking costs set to increase

A public parking area in HCM City's District 1. Costs for parking within the city's lots are likely to increase. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoang Hai HCM CITY — Parking in public areas in HCM City increases by VND1,000-2,000 for motorbikes by 40-50 percent for automobiles based on location if your proposal through the city Department of Finance qualifies.In the proposal towards the Individuals Committee, the department divides motorbike parking costs into

Prejudice still dangles over non-public colleges

Private Colleges and Schools Association Leader Tran Hong Quan spoke towards the Dai Doan Ket (Great Oneness) newspaper about measures to enhance greater education.In comparison to public colleges, non-Condition ones continue to be underappreciated. What exactly are major difficulties that non-Condition colleges are facing now?Non-Condition colleges are mired with lots of demands including finance, land funds, teaching facilities and staff. Within the last 5 years, about 240 colleges, mostly public ones,

Poor students require more support: PM

Poor students require more support: PM

Students in the Ha Noi Sciene and Technology College. A brand new Government directive aims to higher support poor students in going after their studies at colleges and vocational training schools. — VNA/VNS Photo Anh Tuan HN — Students who pass entrance exams at colleges or vocational training schools, but don't have the funds to pursue their studies, will get more support within recently-released directive by Pm Nguyen Tan Dung.The Pm has

Hoa ethnic language put on school curriculum

Hoa ethnic language put on school curriculum

The Chinese (Hoa) ethnic language will be included as an optional subject for children of the Hoa ethnic minority group, at general schools in Vietnam .

First News sues local schools for copyright violations

First News sues local schools for copyright violations

First News announced it has the copyright of the English curriculum New TOEIC and it has filed a lawsuit against two local schools for illegally using these books in Vietnam.

PepsiCo, STF present PCs to remote schools

PepsiCo, STF present PCs to remote schools

PepsiCo Vietnam last week joined hands with the Saigon Times Foundation (STF) under  the  Saigon  Times Group to present 17 secondhand computers to 14 remote schools in the Central Highlands province of Kontum.

Samsung’s Readathon collects over 5,000 books for pupils

More than 5,000 books for outlying regions’ pupils were collected in a festive reading day called Readathon held by Samsung Electronics Vietnam Co. last weekend at the Crescent Mall in Phu My Hung new urban area in HCMC’s District 7.

Double lives for gay teachers in Ireland

Double lives for gay teachers in Ireland

Schools in Ireland can be hostile places for gay people, particularly the staff rooms

Communication skills to be taught at vocational schools

Students at vocational schools will be taught communication skills as an optional subject from the next academic year, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of