Social development
Education and training
Vietnamese language website for diaspora to be upgraded
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has approved the education and training ministry’s plan to upgrade the website tiengvietonline.com.vn, meant for teaching of the mother tongue to the Vietnamese disapora. Dam said the upgrade work would meet the increasing demand for learning of the mother tongue ...
Save the Children supports Lao children's education
Save the Children has agreed to support two projects for the Ministry of Education and Sports, aiming to develop education for Lao children. The first project is entitled ‘School Quality Improvement Programme II in Borikhamxay, Xayaboury and Luang Prabang provinces.’ It aims to improve the quality of ...
More Lao students study business administration
Business administration and law are the most popular subjects chosen by Lao students to further their studies abroad, according to the Ministry of Education and Sports. The ministry unveiled its latest survey in regards to which subjects Lao students chose to study overseas, through both scholarships ...
Lao education officials confer on higher education strategy
Lao Ministry of Education and Sports’ senior officials and involved sectors gathered on 5 February to discuss national higher education development and strategic planning from now until 2025. The meeting’s major goals were to draft a strategy and development plan for the higher education sector for the ...
New university to link up to SE Asian economic corridor
A new research university at Savannakhet – Laos’ second-largest city – in the western region is being built with loans and funding of up to US$40 million from the Asian Development Bank, or ADB, to provide skilled graduates for the region’s ‘economic corridor’ that runs ...
New Sri Sathya Sai school to accept more enrolments
The first ever Sri Sathya Sai School in Laos, based on a human-value based educational model, has plans to accept more enrolments for the 2016-2017 academic year after opening its doors last September. To date, there are 74 children, including 37 females attending the class from ...
Schools need to better vocational training methods
Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has acknowledged that while the quality of vocational training has improved, there remain areas of inefficiencies, as many vocational schools are not operating at full capacities. In a written answer to a question raised by Nguyen Van Phuc, ...
Daw Suu highlights ‘deeply rooted’ educational flaws
Myanmar’s deeply rooted rote learning system is outdated and leads to poor educational standards, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said on 11 January. Improving the country’s education system will be a key challenge for the new administration when it takes over in March. Keep reading ...
Overcrowding plagues Cambodia's classrooms
A primary school teacher’s complaint this week that his class numbers nearly 70 students in Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng town has shed light on the broader issue of overcrowding in Cambodia’s rural schools. The Ministry of Education acknowledges a severe shortfall of teachers, and has tried to ...
Myanmar still behind ASEAN peers in UN report
Despite continuing its positive trend and rise through the ranks, Myanmar remains identified as a country with low human development in the annual United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Report, released on 16 December. The report – titled Work for Human Development – ranks Myanmar ...
