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Submitted by ctv_en_6 on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 17:52
Around 3,500 pupils in Vietnam’s 17 poorest districts will receive four-year scholarships.

The annual stipend will be US$150 per pupil. Quang Ngai and Thanh Hoa provinces have the highest number of schools receiving the scholarships.

The scholarships are part of a five-year programme to improve the quality of education implemented by the Ministry of Education and Training and the Asia Development Bank with total capital of US$71 million.

Programme director Nguyen Hai Chau said that in addition to presenting scholarships, the programme will improve the quality of learning information technology (IT) and foreign languages by providing hardware, software and teacher training. Around 73 schools will be presented with IT equipment and more than 122,000 pupils will be provided with foreign language courses.

The programme will focus on disabled pupils and those at regular education centres and secondary schools for talented pupils. In all, 17 regular education centres in the poorest districts of 10 provinces, 63 secondary schools with disabled pupils and 63 schools for talented pupils will receive money to build modern classrooms. The programme will also provide training courses to thousands of teachers to improve their teaching skills.

Mr Chau said the programme aims to develop the educational sector sustainably and help the sector catch up with regional and international education.

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