The United States’ ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink went on a tour of the historic Temple of Literature, the nation’s oldest university, in Hanoi on November 17 to mark the 38th Vietnamese Teachers’ Day which falls on November 20.

Vietnam’s proposal for commemorating the 650th anniversary of the death of renowned teacher Chu Van An in 2020 was approved at UNESCO’s Executive Board Meeting in Paris, France, on April 16.

The New Lunar Year pen-brush opening ceremony, a long-lasting cultural tradition, turned out to be controversial as the leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) did not actually write the script.