The Ho Chi Minh City Education Development Festival 2011 opened on May 7 at the Phu Tho Indoor Sports Stadium in District 11, introducing advanced school education models.
Books and school equipment will be available on sale at the festival. Seminars and forums on education have also been planned as part of the festival schedule.
Students can avail of free career counseling and choice of schools.
The festival has attracted participation from nearly 100 enterprises including education centers, publishing houses and educational equipment providers.
Over 150 booths are on display at the stadium venue.
Vietnam Publishing House gave away about 6,000 sets of textbooks and 60,000 notebooks to pupils who are children of war invalids and martyrs hailing from ten southern cities and provinces. It also presented five schools in HCMC with bookcases worth over VND1billion.
The festival is being organized by the Department of Education and Training of HCMC and will last until May 10.
