Education

Save the Children, together with UNICEF, World Bank and other international development agencies co-hosted a forum to discuss how to improve the quality of early childhood education (ECE) and to make policy recommendation to promote quality early childhood education in Vietnam.

More than 150 representatives from the Ministry of Education and Training, World Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO, Viet Nam Women’s Union, Plan Viet Nam, Save the Children, World Vision, VVOB and teachers from 30 provinces participated the forum.

Save the Children has provided two trainings on health and nutrition for 360 teachers and school managers from Ha Noi and Hai Phong in March.

The trainings focus on providing health and nutrition information, interactive teaching and learning methods and child focused approach in health and nutrition education for teachers and school managers of 24 primary and secondary schools in the two cities.

Save the Children launched a financial education project for students from Can Tho Province in Mekong River Delta last Friday.

 The VND 200 million (US$10,000) project titled “Smart Start for Students” funded by City foundation aim to provide financial management and personal budget monitor skill for students so as to help them control financial risk and use financial services wisely in the future.

 About 600 students from 10 universities and colleges in the city will be benefiting from the project which runs through July 2017.

Save the Children in co-ordination with the Education and Training Department of Hai Phong City has launched a financial education project for children from 10 secondary schools in Hai Phong last week.

 The project is a part of the organization’s financial education programme titled “Smart Start for Students” since 2009 which aims to provide high school students with personal financial management and basically financial service management skills. The programme started in two schools in HCM City in 2009 and is currently implemented in 182 high schools across the city.

By To To Tam, Education Programme Officer

 Boarding schools can be useful for children who live far away from any schools, helping them to avoid walking long distances every day. However, for children as young as six or seven, it seemed cruel for them to be away from home for most of the week.