Internationalized education policy as a tool for national development

The agency is reviewing the organizational structure, functions and tasks of local industry promotion centers while proposing solutions to enhance local industry promotion activities and policies, and working with related units to plan the 2022 national industry promotion funding allocation. Inspecting and evaluating the implementation of industry promotion projects The Agency for Regional Industry and Trade acts as a bridge with localities to ensure that directives issued by the Ministry of Industry and Trade are strictly and effectively implemented. Last year, the agency closely coordinated with localities to implement the National Industry Promotion Program with a total budget of VND75.641 billion. The program encouraged rural industrial enterprises to modernize production technology gradually, creating products of greater value and competitiveness, which also helped local businesses stabilize production during the pandemic. The ARIT will continue providing … [Read more...] about MoIT agency plays leading role in industry and trade development

Tran Quoc Phuong-Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment When planning for 2022, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and other ministries, agencies, and localities estimated that several projects could complete investment procedures in the first quarter, and after completing these, capital would be delivered immediately. However, due to the pandemic, many projects have not yet been approved for investment decisions by the end of the first quarter and could not allocate capital, affecting disbursement activities. Moreover, 2022 is a year with many new construction projects. When a new project was started last year, following the Law on Construction enacted in 2021, the disbursements must proceed this year. The National Assembly (NA) has approved the medium-term public investment plan (MTIP), but it can take another 6-7 months to complete the procedures for investment decisions and contractor selections. The flexible adjustment of public investment capital will … [Read more...] about Tackling slowing public investment for good of nation

A contest about Vietnam’s history of patriotic traditions is launched The contest is organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Education and Times newspaper will carry out it. This is an activity under the Prime Minister's Project on supporting information and propaganda on ethnicity and religion. Contest entrants are education administrators, teachers, and employees who have been working in the education sector and students and parents nationwide who are interested in the contest. The content of entries is not fictional and focuses on the following contents such as the values of religion for social life which contributes to the promotion of the strength of the great national unity bloc, religious solidarity in the cause, building and defending the fatherland, the national history, patriotism, tradition of the national building and defense, and the national unity. At the same time, entries … [Read more...] about Contest about Vietnam’s history of patriotic traditions launched

Chairman of the NA Committee for Culture and Education Nguyen Dac Vinh (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The 15th National Assembly heard a report on and debated the draft Law on Cinematography (amended) in the afternoon of May 25 as part of its ongoing third session . Presenting the report, Chairman of the NA Committee for Culture and Education Nguyen Dac Vinh said the draft revised law delivers clearer contents on the State’s responsibilities and the participation of organisations and individuals, while amending a number of regulations on film industry development. It specifies that the ratio of foreign investors' capital contribution to Vietnamese cinema establishments for the production, distribution and dissemination of films does not exceed 51 percent of the charter capital to ensure compliance with inter na tional commitments and suitable for the specific factors of the industry, Vinh added. Truong Trong Nghia, a deputy from Ho Chi Minh City, said the import … [Read more...] about Draft revision to cinematography law debated

The goal of the Sinh Con, Sinh Cha programme is to share knowledge, experience and skills in raising children in the first years of life. — Photo courtesy of Sinh Con, Sinh Cha HÀ NỘI — A community education programme has achieved remarkable results in improving parenting knowledge, skills and behaviours during an 18 month pilot in Việt Nam. An independent report assessing results of the programme shows clear positive impacts on parents’ change in child-rearing and upbringing across all three content pillars of Child Health, Child Behaviours and Child Intelligence, with 85 per cent of parents surveyed agreeing that the programme helped improve their parenting knowledge and skills. Up to 97 per cent of the parents have changed their parenting approaches as suggested by the programme and made positive changes to their perceptions and behaviours: parents spend more time with their children; reduce parenting anger and the use of negative practices in dealing with various parenting … [Read more...] about Community programme improves parenting knowledge and skills

The pandemic has pushed forward the trends of e-commerce in Vietnam 2-3 years earlier than forecast with the sector growing in size four times over last year, according to a 2021 Lazada report. “Some of the e-commerce trends we expected would happen in 2025, such as in edutech and fintech, have already happened in 2022,” noted Nguyen Huy Hoang, chief business officer at OnPoint E-commerce. “Hence, all e-commerce platform companies are investing hugely in Vietnam.” However, as shopping centres and small brick-and-mortar stores are now reopened, many investors are concerned that the boom in e-commerce was just a short-term fad and the majority of consumers could quickly shift back to offline shopping. On May 12 at the Vietnam Online Business Forum, the general consensus amongst experts was that e-commerce will continue to boost the economy after the pandemic. Specifically, in the first quarter of 2022, the industry saw more than 8 million new online consumers. A survey … [Read more...] about All to play for in e-commerce rise