HA NOI (VNS)— PhD student Tran Thi Phuong Hoa's doctorate thesis on the history of Vietnamese education was declared the winner of the Pham Than Duat Award at the Temple of Literature in Ha Noi on Thursday.

Entitled Vietnamese-French Education in Tonkin from Early 20th Century to 1945, Hoa's doctor thesis is the first research into this field and was hailed as a comprehensive and profound work by the Viet Nam Association for Historical Science.

The Pham Than Duat Award Fund was founded in 2000, commemorating the 115th death anniversary of a historian from the northern province of Ninh Binh who held a senior position in the Nguyen dynasty.-VNS