Germany assists German language teaching in Vietnam

The German Embassy in Hanoi on Nov. 10 recognised the Lomonosov primary school in Hanoi as a member of the “Schools: Partners for the Future” (PASCH) network.

The recognition is one of the activities to mark the 35 th anniversary of the Vietnam-Germany diplomatic ties.

The school has become an official partner of the German Government to receive direct assistance in teaching facilities and funding for teaching the German language.

The PASCH network will create more opportunities for Vietnamese students to get access to Europe in general and Germany in particular, said the German embassy’s representative.

Through the network, students studying German will be allowed to sit for international exams at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi at various levels based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (GER).

PASCH is an initiative of former German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Not only will there be a cooperative relationship between the two schools of two different nations but also a worldwide network of schools where German is taught as a foreign language and relationships are maintained with a German school.

The initiative has been carried out at more than 1,500 schools across the world and in Vietnam , seven schools in Hanoi and two in HCM City are members of the network./.

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Inspectors uncover cache of illegal DVDs

HCM CITY — Inspectors of the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and city police last Friday discovered a warehouse containing 300,000 illegally printed CDs, VCDs and DVDs in Binh Tan District.

Warehouse keeper Vo Thi Ngoc Lan told the officials that the discs were printed at other places and brought to the warehouse for distribution to various parts of the city

Man fined for mobile phone harassment

HCM CITY— Chung Huu Phuoc, 34, of HCM City's District 6 was fined VND7.6 million (US$400) for using his mobile phone to annoy someone at the office of the Party Central Committee in the south.

The police's investigation showed that between April and June this year, Phuoc used seven telephone numbers and made calls to the office.

However, he said, he intended to disturb a person, not the office.

Enterprises still owe social insurance

HUE — As many as 300 companies in central Thua Thien-Hue Province owed social insurance payment worth VND13 billion (US$690,000) since the beginning of this year.

About 4,500 employers and workers were uninsured.

Province Social Insurance vice director Nguyen Truc Phuong said the problem was due to low fine – VND30 million ($1,500) – applied to violators.

Private clinics join Bluestar network

HCM CITY — Marie Stopes International Viet Nam, a non-profit organisation, on September10 enrolled 17 private healthcare providers in HCM City in its Bluestar social franchising network, raising the network's membership in the city to 48.

The organisation together with the Viet Nam Centre for Reproductive Health pioneered the use of social franchising to provide people greater access to quality reproductive healthcare at a reasonable cost through existing private providers, To Thi Kim Hoa, deputy director of the city Department of Health said.

The four-year initiative had also helped the private health sector improve its quality by helping to develop infrastructure and providing traing in clinical skills, sounselling and marketing, she added.

The network, set up in 2007, has 171 members in Ha Noi, Hai Phong and HCM City and the provinces of Khanh Hoa, Binh Duong, Dong Nai and An Giang. — VNS

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Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia get learning network

Forty-two Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian university rectors have come to a decision to set up a university network and build the network’s operational content and mechanisms.

The decision was made at a meeting of Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian universities’ rectors at Ho Chi Minh City National University on August 27.

Addressing the meeting entitled, “Promoting cooperation in tertiary education and scientific research”, Head of the Lao National Assembly’s Socio-Cultural Affairs Committee Douangdy Outhachak emphasised the necessity to effectively implement education and training work, along with science and technology modernisation.

The establishment of the education network will help Laos strongly develop its economy, trade and service, he said.

He expressed his hope that Vietnam universities will receive more Lao students and assist Lao universities in human resource training programmes.

Associate Professor Phan Thanh Binh, who is also Rector of Ho Chi Minh City National University, said the network would be a foundation to promote cooperation among regional universities, contributing to the regional development and raising the solidarity and traditional friendship among the three countries.

The rectors also discussed the establishment of a digital university with the ASEAN Universities Network (AUN) and the development of a virtual university between Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia .

Representatives from 11 Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian universities signed a memorandum of understanding on training cooperation in which they will exchange students, lecturers, learning and scientific information and research./.

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