Thứ trưởng Bộ GD-ĐT Nguyễn Vinh Hiển đã nói chuyện với hàng ngàn giảng viên, sinh viên về chuyện "đổi mới giáo dục phổ thông" trong suốt 2 giờ không nghỉ giải lao chiều nay, 11/2.
“Diễn giả" Nguyễn Vinh Hiển cho biết, ngành giáo dục đang thực hiện đổi mới với hai khâu then chốt là đổi mới quản lý giáo dục và phát triển đội ngũ nhà giáo

TTO - Đây là số lượng chỉ tiêu đào tạo tiến sĩ năm 2015 mà Bộ GD-ĐT vừa công bố.
1.300 chỉ tiêu dự kiến được phân bổ theo các nước đào tạo: Anh (80), Australia (100), New Zealand (50), Hoa Kỳ (100), Canada (40), Pháp (190), Đức (190), Bỉ (45), Nga (30), Nhật Bản (130), Trung Quốc (100), Singapore (40), Hàn Quốc (30) và 175 chỉ tiêu được gửi đi đào tạo tại các nước khác.
Đề án 911 do Thủ tướng Chỉnh phủ phê duyệt đã đặt mục tiêu đến năm 2020 sẽ đào tạo bổ sung được ít nhất 20.000 tiến sĩ, trong đó có khoảng 10.000 tiến sĩ được đào tạo ở nước ngoài tại các trường ĐH có uy tín trên thế giới, giúp tăng tỉ lệ giảng viên có trình độ tiến sĩ, góp phần nâng cao chất lượng giáo dục ĐH Việt Nam.
Thời hạn nộp hồ sơ trước ngày 31-3.

Dân trí Bộ Giáo dục và Đào tạo thông báo tuyển sinh đi học tại Trung Quốc diện Hiệp định năm 2015 với 62 suất học bổng toàn phần du học với 3 trình độ là đại học, thạc sĩ và tiến sĩ.
Tổng số có 62 suất học bổng toàn phần, ứng viên trúng tuyển sẽ được hưởng quyền lợi sau: Chính phủ Trung Quốc cấp: Học phí, bảo hiểm y tế, chỗ ở, sinh hoạt phí hàng tháng; Chính phủ Việt Nam cấp: Vé máy bay một lượt đi và về, phí đi đường, phí làm hộ chiếu, visa và cấp bù sinh hoạt phí hàng tháng.

PARIS — Assia Djebar, an Algerian-born writer and filmmaker whose widely admired work explored the plight of women in the male-centric Arab world, died here on Feb. 7. She was 78.
Her death, at a Paris hospital, was announced by the Académie Française, which elected Ms. Djebar a member in 2005. In a statement, President François Hollande hailed Ms. Djebar as “a woman of conviction, whose multiple and fertile identities fed her work, between Algeria and France, between Berber, Arab and French.”

TOKYO — Kenji Ekuan, a Japanese industrial designer whose instantly recognizable soy sauce bottle — red-capped and elegantly teardrop-shaped — became one of his country’s most ubiquitous postwar exports, died here on Sunday. He was 85.
Mr. Ekuan was a prolific and widely lauded designer whose work shaped products closely associated with modern Japan, including Yamaha motorcycles and a bullet train used in the country’s Shinkansen high-speed rail network.

Tonya Gonnella Frichner, a lawyer and professor from upstate New York who became a global voice for Native Americans in forging common ground with the world’s indigenous peoples, died on Feb. 14 at her home in Union City, N.J. She was 67.
The niece of a chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, Ms. Frichner founded the American Indian Law Alliance and served as North American regional representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

During World War II, he ran away to join the Marines, but was sent home the next day because he was just 14. He enlisted in the Army three years later and, bemedaled with four Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars and four Purple Hearts, became the most decorated enlisted man during the Korean War. He volunteered for service in Vietnam, where, as a lieutenant colonel, he earned a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal and an Army Commendation Medal in only 58 days of combat.
And then, on April 4, 1969, Anthony B. Herbert, the Army poster boy from the Pennsylvania coalfields, was abruptly relieved of his command.

The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, the former president of the University of Notre Dame who stood up to both the White House and the Vatican as he transformed Catholic higher education in America and raised a powerful moral voice in national affairs, died late Thursday in South Bend, Ind. He was 97.
As an adviser to presidents, special envoy to popes, theologian, author, educator and activist, Father Hesburgh was for decades considered the most influential priest in America. In 1986, when he retired after a record 35 years as president of Notre Dame, a survey of 485 university presidents named him the most effective college president in the country.
Father Hesburgh further inflamed his conservative critics by leading a group of Catholic educators to assert a degree of doctrinal independence from Rome. Meeting at the Holy Cross retreat in Land O’Lakes, Wis., in 1967, the group issued a landmark policy statement declaring that the pursuit of truth, not religious indoctrination, was the ultimate goal of Catholic higher learning in the United States. That position had implications for what could be taught at the universities and who could be hired to teach, issues that remain contentious.

Louis Jourdan, a handsome, sad-eyed French actor who worked in films and on television in Europe and the United States for more than 50 years, as a romantic hero in movies like “Gigi” and later as a suave villain in movies like “Octopussy,” died on Friday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 93.
Mr. Jourdan had a reserved, quiet manner that lent his performances an aura of mystery and even of melancholy and that served him well in both sympathetic and unsympathetic roles.

R. K. Laxman, a fixture of Indian society whose satirical comic strip featuring a character he called the Common Man appeared daily on the front page of The Times of India for more than five decades, died on Jan. 26 in the western Indian city of Pune. He was 93.
The Common Man was the star of “You Said It,” which Mr. Laxman created in 1951. Wearing a dhoti and a checkered coat, with a bushy mustache, a few wisps of hair, a bulbous nose on which perched a pair of glasses, and thick eyebrows that were permanently raised, the Common Man observed the contradictions, ironies and paradoxes of the world around him with a bewildered look but without ever uttering a word.
Political hypocrisy was Mr. Laxman’s favorite target. “I am grateful to my leaders for keeping my profession flourishing,” he once remarked. “Alarmingly, the politicians walk, talk and behave as though they were modeling perpetually for the cartoonist.”