National Education Channel to begin broadcasting January 1

The channel, jointly run by the Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam Television and the AIC Group under the motto 'For a leaning society', will present educational issues both at home and in schools.

The channel will also assist pupils across the country in learning through TV and in accessing knowledge from the database of Vietnam Television and other TV channels in the region and the world.

In the first stage, VTV7 will be aimed at preschool children and primary pupils. It will also broadcast programmes suitable for secondary and high school students.

In the first stage, VTV7 will be aimed at preschool children and primary pupils.

On air for18 hours per day starting from 6am, VTV7 will broadcast programmes including VTV7 English, VTV7 School, Discovery, VTV7 Books, and the Education Talk Show among others with the focus on education at school (VTV7 School).

Deputy Director of the Vietnam Television Pham Viet Tien said VTV7 is a specialised channel in the system of Vietnam national TV channels which will reflect many new educational issues in partnership with the MoET and educational experts.

He noted that VTV7 will provide students with new knowledge in addition to exciting entertainment programmes based on careful research of their psychophysiology.

"Although VTV7 is the youngest channel of ours, it is also the one that took us the longest time to nurture. The idea of creating it has been set for 20 years. We are proud to have an educational channel to be aired nationally," said Pham Viet Tien, deputy director of VTV.

On air for18 hours per day starting from 6am, VTV7 will broadcast programmes including VTV7 English, VTV7 School, Discovery, VTV7 Books, and the Education Talk Show among others with the focus on education at school (VTV7 School).

Previously, Nguyen Nhat Hoa, head of the educational programmes producing centre, said this was, indeed, a special educational channel.

"We bring inspiring facts into all the programmes we produce, so that students will learn from our channel. But they must first develop an interest in subjects and study on their own," Hoa said.

In the first phrase of broadcasting, the channel's targeted audience group will be children in kindergarten and primary schools. It will also offer programmes for high schoolers, adults, ethnic minorities and the disabled.

VTV7 is scheduled to begin broadcasting on January 1, 2016.