Social development

Education and training

Tech equipment handover adds flavour to school meals programme

World Food Programme (WFP) has provided information and communications technology (ICT) equipment to support the School Meals Programme to ensure its sustainability and strengthen local ownership in target schools.An equipment handover ceremony was held in Vientiane on Monday to assist Education and Sports bureaus in ...

Times Reporters

Int’l organisations help Savannakhet children get new school building

More than 100 children of Dong Nakharm village in Atsphangthong district, Savannakhet province have a new school to study in – thanks to Acronis Cyber Foundation that provided aid for its construction.The Acronis Cyber Foundation partnered with Child’s Dream Foundation and handed over the school ...

Times Reporeters

NUOL faculty, youth rally on educational development

Ministry of Education and Sports officials along with National University of Laos (NUOL) lecturers and students came together on Wednesday to discuss the development of education and its ongoing contribution to the nation.The Youth Meeting at the NUOL was attended by Vice President of Laos, ...

Sangkhomsay Bubphanouvong

Experts workshop ideas for research-based green master’s curriculum

Government officials joined National University of Laos (NUOL) and partner organisation representatives at a workshop recently to exchange ideas on the draft curriculum for the Master of Science Programme on Green Innovation for Environmental Management (GIEM).This master’s degree is different from other current postgraduate studies ...

Times Reporters

Switzerland increases employment opportunities for local disadvantaged in Laos

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government of Switzerland has provided a budget of US$8.6 million to assist vocational training and employment support for disadvantaged people in Laos.Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, Dr Kikeo Chanthaboury and Regional Director for Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), ...

Times Reporters

Nam Theun 2 agrees to support Khammuan sustainable skills development

Khammuan province’s Technical-Vocational College and Nam Theun 2 Power Company Ltd have signed a new cooperation agreement on sustainable local skills development for the hydropower sector.The cooperation agreement was inked last week, after the first three-year implementation of the memorandum of understanding’s action plan on ...

Times Reporters

Japan Supports Improving Reading Skills of Children in Thapangthong

(KPL) The government of Japan has provided grant assistance worth US$516,347 to support improving the reading skills of children and the learning environment as well as the advancement of primary schools in the Lao PDR.A contract on the grant project was signed at the Japanese ...

KPL News Desk

Laos ministry details international support for education, sports

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – International non-government organisations, associations and foundations are cooperating with the government to contribute US$99,663,578 as part of ongoing education and sports programmes around the country.International groups this year will provide US$17,253,833 to develop universities, schools and other education and sports sector ...

Sangkhomsay Bubphanouvong

Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia to adopt Korean for regular school curriculum

BUSAN, Nov. 26 (Yonhap) — Three more member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia — plan to adopt Korean for the regular curriculum at their secondary schools beginning next year, officials said Tuesday.South Korean Minister of Education ...

Yonhap News Desk

Educators spotlight primary education in development plans

Education officials, members of international organisations and development partners met on Thursday to endorse key policy recommendations for the next step of the Education and Sports Sector Development Plan (ESSDP) for 2021-2025.The recommendations focus on primary education, aiming to improve the knowledge and pedagogical skills ...

Times Reporters

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