VND 400 Bln For Schools in Central Highlands
The Government has invested VND400 billion (US$25 million) in the building and upgrade of schools in the Central Highlands with the aim of universalizing general education in the region's five provinces.
More than 3,400 classrooms have already been built, including facilities 39 boarding schools.
By the end of 2005, 35 percent of communes in the Central Highlands had achieved universalisation of junior secondary education.
In the 2004-05 academic year, 1.46 million pupils went to school, accounting for 30.2 percent of the region's population. Almost 483,000 of these were from ethnic minority groups.
At present, the region gives priority to building schools for disabled children and vocational training centres.
Source: VNA
