Education and training

Lao lecturers and specialists from Malaysia’s University of Malaya gathered in Vientiane on Wednesday for a three-day meeting to share experiences in social research, aiming to build the capacity of trainers in this field.The “First Training of Trainers for Building Social Research Capacities in Higher ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Government officials from the mining sector at central and local levels are attending a training course to broaden their knowledge of mineral processing.The training course on techniques in mineral resource processing began yesterday in Vientiane and will run until September 23 ...

More than 3,000 disadvantaged kindergarten and early primary school children in 27 villages of remote Nambak and Phonthong districts in Luang Prabang province are set to benefit from a school assistance project. The Luang Prabang provincial Education and Sports Department and Save the Children are cooperating ...

The Ministry of Science and Technology ended a six month Vietnamese language course for 50 Lao government officials in Vientiane recently, to improve communication between Laos and Vietnam. Director General of the ministry’s Science and Technology Administrative Institute, Mr Phimpha Outhachak, told the training course closing ...

Construction of the new secondary Phonesavanh School in Phonmixay village, Paek district, Xieng Khuang province is now over 70 percent complete and authorities expect the project to be complete at the beginning of next year.A project official, Mr Sino Bounpaseuth, told Vientiane Times “The contractor is speeding ...

(KPL) The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) has presented 30 computers and three laptops to the Ministry of Education and Sports to distribute to 11 secondary schools and primary schools in Vientiane Capital.A handover ceremony for the donation package was held in ...

The Lao-Korea Skills Development Institute under the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has opened a training course for budding young hairdressers as a pathway out of poverty.The training initiative aims to strengthen the skills of hair stylists to help supply the market and create ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Hundreds of business sector representatives from five provinces of Laos have benefited from a training course on professional employee development aimed at boosting efficient management in their workplaces.Since 2016, more than 500 participants from various companies in Laos have been professionally ...

(KPL) The government of Germany has contributed EUR 4 million to Dual-Cooperative Training (DCT) through the Vocational Education Lao PDR (VELA) project phase 2.The agreement was signed in Vientiane on Aug 23 by Mr Nouphanh Outsa, Director General, DTEVT, Ministry of Education and Sports, Ms ...

(KPL) The Customs Department, Ministry of Finance together with the World Customs Organization (WCO) on Aug 26 organized a training session on Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) Validation to develop the Lao PDR’s Custom Administrations’ capacities to effectively examine, validate and authorize the application for AEO ...