On January 13^th, 2008 Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) organized the press conference to announce 12 outstanding events of the education and training in 2008 as follows:
1. Continue to implement of the “No two” campaign and carry out the emulation movement “Building friendly schools, active students”. From the school year 2008 – 2009, MoET has launched the emulation movement “Building friendly schools, active students” to make the breakthrough in the construction of good teaching environment and intensify the moral education for all students. After 4 months of implementation, 2,191 schools have registered to join the campaign and 2,816 historic and cultural relics have been taken care of.

    The draft of education strategy 2009 – 2020 has set a goal that at least 5 Vietnamese universities would have been ranked in the top 50 universities of ASEAN and 2 universities would have been ranked in the list of 200 leading universities in the world by 2020. The MoET promulgated the 13^th draft of Vietnam’s educational development strategy 2009 – 2020. This draft will be launched publicly before getting comments for 2 months.