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Nearly 23 million students nationwide celebrated the official start of the 2020-2021 school-year on September 5 morning.

Some 7,000 children in Tuong Duong district, in the central province of Nghe An, have enjoyed their summer break at local libraries.

A new report by the World Bank Group pointed out that between 2010 and 2020, the Human Capital Index for Vietnam increased from 0.66 to 0.69.

The Nguyen Du Lao-Vietnamese bilingual school launched its 2020-2021 school year at a ceremony in the Lao capital of Vientiane on September 11.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha said in the 2020-2021 academic year, the education sector has to complete the dual goals of effectively preventing COVID-19 pandemic and fulfilling yearly targets. Towards those goals, various measures have been designed.

Nearly 23 million students nationwide celebrated the official start of the 2020-2021 school-year on September 5 morning.

Nearly 23 million students nationwide celebrated the official start of the 2020-2021 school-year on September 5 morning.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong on September 4 called upon the education sector to overcome the challenges posed by COVID-19 on the eve of the new 2020-2021 school year.

More than 50 provinces and cities nationwide have announced schedules for the new school year and prepared scenarios to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Department of Education and Training of Hanoi has required local schools to hold short and solemn opening ceremonies for the new school year to both create a jubilant atmosphere for students and ensure observance of epidemic control measures.

Localities that practice social distancing must put the health and safety of students and teachers above all else, and depending on local circumstances can hold opening ceremonies for the new school year online, an education official has said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered relevant ministries, authorities and heads of the provincial and centrally-run cities to exert efforts so as to ensure traffic safety in face of the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 1.9 million quality helmets will be presented to first grade students in the new school year 2020-2021, aimed at increasing the rate of children wearing standard helmets to 80 percent this year.

Thailand’s Ministry of Education is going to test an on-air and online learning system, in case at-school teaching is not safe enough for the start of the new semester on July 1.

The new school year is already nearly a month old, but many schools are suffering teacher shortages.

Nguyen Van Anh, principal of Son Bua Primary and Secondary School, in the central province of Quang Ngai, walks about 3 kilometres on steep, dirt tracks and crosses a wooden bridge to Nuoc Mu village to urge underprivileged students to go to school.

A new school year opening ceremony of a Vietnamese language class for Vietnamese children in Kiev city, Ukraine, has been held.

Disadvantaged students across the country have received support in various forms to help them pursue study as the new school year officially began on September 5.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked central localities and natural disaster prevention and response forces as well as the whole community to focus on overcoming consequences of recent flooding, and ensuring safety for students as the new academic year has started.

More than 24 million students across the country, or one-fourth of the total population, started a new academic year on September 5.