Ministry of Education and Traning has announced the decision to set up a centre for reasearching education for minorities.

The centre will carry out reasearch on ethnic minoriy educaion to to supply theoretical basis and facts to the Minister of Education and Tranning and other organisations to for use in policy - making and planning in the interest of improving education for ethnic minority groups.

The centre will also seek specific measures to promote education quality in the remote, mountainous areas inhabited by the ethnic minority people, and meeting demands for study and human resource training in such reagions.

One of the gaps that the centre needs to fill is to teach speaking and writing of ethnic minority languages to the residents. Dr Bui Thi Ngoc Diep was assigned to be the centre's director.