Vietnamese firms should take advantage of the international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system to increase the value of their brand names and protect their intellectual property rights, experts have urged.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 9 presented a Ho Chi Minh Order to the Vietnam Military Medical University (VMMU) in recognition of its outstanding performances in training, scientific research and supplying health care services to soldiers and people.
Capacity building for teachers is crucial to educational reforms, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the meeting of the National Committee for Education Reforms and the National Council of Education and Human Resources Development from 2016 – 2020 on May 29.
Minister of Education and Training, who is also head of the State Council for Professor Title of Vietnam Phung Xuan Nha has been told to review the list of professors and associate professors who were appointed early this month.
Two of Vietnam’s newly recognised professors are the youngest and
oldest persons receiving this title in the country since 1974, at 37 and
81 years of age.
Vietnam has abundant human resources in agriculture, but has not
utilised them properly, Nguyen Van Bo, director of the Vietnam Academy
of Agricultural Sciences, told Nong thon Ngay nay (Countryside Today)
newspaper.
Professors, associate professors and doctorate degree holders who
work at tertiary education institutions can continue working up to ten
years after their retirement age.
Teachers with 40 years' experience will receive a seniority allowance
equal to 40 percent of their salary, under a decree drafted by the
Ministry of Education and Training.
The Ho Chi Minh City International
University (HIU) signed a cooperation agreement with the University
of Houston (UH) on May 24 in Houston city, Texas state.
Female Vietnamese scientists have made
practical contributions to the nation’s socio-economic, scientific and
technological development, a State leader said.
The Vietnamese Party and State always
place science and technology a top priority, seeing the sector as the
driving force behind the country’s development.
The National Institute of Nutrition’s female staff and the environmentalist, Nguyen Thi Kim Chi, from the Hanoil University of Technology have won 2009’s Kovalevskaya Award, which is considered to be the highest honour for Vietnam ’s female scientists.
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