Education and training

The Honorary Consulate of Hungary in Laos has announced the opening of applications to study in Hungary for the year 2020-2021, a program called Stipendium Hungarium (SH). Applications have been open since November 15, 2019. The deadline for potential applicants is January 15, 2020.Hungary provides high-quality education ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Representatives from the business sector of Oudomxay province are participating in a training programme to develop professional qualities needed for their operations.The training programme, which will run from November 18 to 22, has been co-organised by the Lao National Chamber of ...

The children of Dakcheung district in Xekong province now have a brand new secondary school, built with 9 billion kip (US$1 million) in grant funding from the Vietnamese government.The school, in Nonsavan village, was officially handed over to Lao authorities last week.The event was attended ...

VIENTIANE – Officials from the Lao Ministry of Public Works and Transport and other sectors are learning about railway operations from Chinese experts in Lao capital Vientiane to prepare for the opening of China-Laos railway in 2021.The final railway technology training course is taking place ...

Savannakhet University last week hosted an event to celebrate its 10th anniversary after opening its doors to students in October 2009, becoming Laos’ fourth state-run university.Students from around the country are increasingly seeking places at the university and today it has 8,811 students on its ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Faculty members of the National University of Laos (NUOL), institutes and foreign officials will be presenting papers at the International Research Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development at NUOL on November 5-6.The conference is being held by the ...

(KPL) Over 250 copies of research guidelines “Research Ethics in Laos and the Mekong Countries” have been presented to the University of Health Sciences (UHS) to be used as guidelines for conducting an ethical research that would allow hospital practitioners, teachers, students, researchers and organizational administrators ...

Students at the Faculty of Agriculture, National University of Laos (NUOL), learnt about Japanese food value chains during a training course at the faculty’s Animal Hospital last week.The Faculty of Agriculture co-organised the training from October 21-25 under the Asean-Japan Partnership programme on Food Value ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the National University of Laos (NUOL) is reporting substantial progress in its project to build capacity in technical knowledge for environmental impact assessments (EIA). The project, running from 2018-2020, has been developing EIA training courses and textbooks ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Sinxay Secondary School and Sanaphon Primary School joined others from across the region to receive an Asean Eco-School Award at a recent ceremony held in Siem Reap, Cambodia.This was the third biennial Asean Eco-School Award ceremony to be held, to highlight ...