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The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities in August put the Vietnam National University - Hanoi (VNU) at 758th place in the world, 183rd in Asia, and 14th in Southeast Asia, up 186 places globally since the previous rankings last January.

Ho Chi Minh City is planning to spend nearly VND1.8 trillion ($76.9 million) on rental support for nearly 1.8 million workers, but has so far disbursed only VND104 billion ($4.47 million) to nearly 196,000 workers, or just 5.8 per cent of the support package.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the total revenue of autonomous universities is constantly increasing. Vietnam now has five autonomous universities with total annual revenue of over VND1 trillion ($42.7 million). There were also 14 autonomous pilot schools on a list of 30 schools with the highest total revenue in 2021.

According to the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, more than 60 per cent of workers are currently renting houses and housing development for workers is proceeding slowly. In March, the government decided to support the rental costs of workers affected by Covid-19.

Hanoi has approved support in elementary-level training of less than three months for eleven groups of workers in 78 occupations in the 2022-2025 period. Four groups receiving vocational training will receive support to cover training costs. The capital has set a target of training more than 21,000 people at the primary level for less than three months by the end of 2022, of which more than 9,000 will be trained in non-agricultural occupations and more than 12,000 in agricultural occupations.

Vietnam Social Insurance on July 26 announced the results of its policy on rental support for employees under Decision No. 08/2022/QD-TTg. Nearly 2.7 million workers have received such support to date, while some 3.4 million in total are to be beneficiaries of the policy, which has a budget of VND6.6 trillion ($282 million).