$9million devoted to build Thua Thien Hue city’s
top secondary school

The People’s Committee of central Thua Thien-Hue Province has approved a VND178
billion (USD8.9 million) budget to rebuild a secondary school.
Projected image of the future Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School

Construction of the new Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School, the most modern of
its kind in the province, will begin in early 2011 and be completed within six
years.

The new school will cover an area of 36,380 square metres in An Van Duong Urban
Area (seven times larger than the current school) and serve nearly 1,300 pupils.
The school will have be four stories tall with 32 classrooms, 20 rooms for
practice, one meeting hall, one library and two labs.

It will also include a four-floor dormitory, one restaurant, one
multi-functional sports room, one swimming pool and several other facilities.

Master Nguyen Huu Bi, Headmaster of Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School, said the
modern learning environment will help boost creativity and physical strength of
students.

Set up in 1940, Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School has always been a prestigious
education organisation of Thua Thien-Hue Province. The school’s annual rate of
pupils achieving high study marks is at least 60%.

In 1999, the school received the state president’s Labour Medal of third class.
It has also been presented with many certificates of merit from the Ministry of
Education and Training.

Denmark to fund art education in primary schools in Vietnam

The government of Denmark approved a fund of 3.900,000 DKK (USD692) for the
promotion of art education in primary schools in Vietnam.
Pham Vu Luan, Minister of Education and Training and John Nielsen, Ambassador of
Denmark, sign an agreement which provides Danish support for arts education in
primary schools in Vietnam from 2011 – 2015.

Pham Vu Luan, Minister of Education and Training and John Nielsen, Ambassador of
Denmark December 14 signed an agreement which provides Danish support for arts
education in primary schools in Vietnam from 2011 – 2015.

An earlier pilot project implementing a new approach to arts education in six
different provinces in Northern Vietnam has been tremendously successful.

Support to Arts Education in Primary Schools has brought a new learner centred
approach to develop the creative skills of Vietnamese children. This method
focuses on a child’s cognitive thinking and draws active participation.

The aim of the new program is to apply new methods and materials in primary
schools in Vietnam and develop a focused approach towards art education in
primary schools. The program would follow a national curriculum of art education
in primary schools which would be more learner-focused.

The signing of the agreement comes after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
which was signed by the Vietnamese and Danish minister of education and
training. The MoU signifies the broad scale of educational activities between
Vietnam and Denmark.

During the signing ceremony, Mr. Pham Vu Luan expressed his pleasure with the
results of the early phase of the project and hoped that this innovative
approach towards teaching could be applied in other subjects in schools in
future.

The Danish Ambassador John Nielsen stated that the first phase of the project
had been highly successful and that he was pleased to see that the agreement
added another milestone to the increasing cooperation between Vietnam and
Denmark in the field of education.

World Bank steps up support for Vietnam’s higher education

The World Bank and the State Bank of Vietnam on Thursday signed a financing
agreement and related legal documents for the Higher Education Development
Policy Credit valued at US$50 million.

The credit is provided by the International Development Association, the arm of
the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries.

The program as a whole is designed to support implementation of the Vietnamese
government’s higher education reform agenda. This operation aims to strengthen
governance and accountability, rationalize financing, improve quality of
teaching and research, and enhance transparency in financial management within
the higher education sector.

Addressing the signing ceremony, Ms. Victoria Kwakwa, the World Bank Country
Director for Vietnam, said: “Further progress in access to, and quality of
education and training at all levels is critical for achieving Vietnam’s
development objectives and in particular its objective to build the skills
needed to raise the competitiveness of its economy.”

HCM City plans US$135 mln for pre-schools in 5 years

Ho Chi Minh City plans to set aside about VND2,700 billion (US$135 million) for
developing its pre-school system between now and 2015.

Under the plans, the city’s government will build 760 classrooms, and train
thousands of teachers, both working and new ones.

The city will ensure that 100% of under-5 children to go to school with two
class sessions a day by 2013.

Among them, the local authorities will allocate priority funds in the
construction of six national standard kindergartens in rural areas including Ly
Nhon Commune in Can Gio District, Nhon Duc in Nha Be, Tan Nhut in Binh Chanh,
Xuan Thoi Thuong in Hoc Mon, Tan Thong Hoi and Thai My in Cu Chi; and other
pre-schools in 12 wards in districts consisting of 4, 6, Phu Nhuan, Go Vap, Binh
Tan, Tan Phu; and in industrial and export processing zones.

In addition, the city’s government also guides the Department of Education and
Training to cooperate with the Labor Union in asking industrial and export
processing zones to build kindergartens for workers’ children.

Source: SGGP, dantrinews