Deputy Prime Minister and Education andTraining Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan stressed the need to boostuniversity cooperation with Japan while delivering an opening speech ata conference of Vietnamese-Japanese university rectors in Hanoi onSept. 17.
The two-day conference is attended byuniversity directors and representatives from relevant ministries andagencies of Vietnam and 53 university directors from Japan .
Deputy PM Nhan said that in the current integration process, developinghigh-quality human resources is the leading priority and nationalpolicy of Vietnam . The Vietnamese education sector is exerting effortsto find measures to comprehensively reform university education,improve the quality of teaching and scientific research, and combinetraining with the demands of society to make a breakthrough inimproving the quality of human resource training to serve the nationalindustrialisation and modernisation process.
He stated that learning and sharing experiences with advanceduniversities in the region and the world is important and necessary.
Nhan also said that the conference was an opportunity for educationadministrators, policy makers and university rectors in Japan andVietnam to exchange experiences in their fields and work out measuresto boost cooperation between their universities in future.
A preventative of the Education and Training Ministry introducedparticipants to a project to build the International University in thecentral city of Da Nang into a university for research, with Japan as astrategic partner. Vietnam will enrol its best students to theuniversity.
The university will be built with the aim of bringing Vietnam to the top 200 universities in the world by 2030.
Japan is one of biggest donors of official development assistance (ODA)to Vietnam . The Japanese government has so far helped build 256primary schools in 17 provinces in flood-prone areas and fourmountainous northern provinces .
The country also helped improve the capacity of education and trainingand scientific research for a number of universities in Vietnam andgrants scholarships to Vietnamese students every year.
Moreover, a series of projects at the primary and university levels andon human resource development have been carried out with non-refundableaid from the Japanese government.
At present, about 2,800 Vietnamese students are studying in Japan .
In march 2008, education ministries of the two countries signed amemorandum of understanding on Japan helping train 1,000 Ph.D.s atuniversities in Japan from 2008-2010. In addition, many bilateralcooperation projects between universities of the two countries obtainedgood results./.
The two-day conference is attended byuniversity directors and representatives from relevant ministries andagencies of Vietnam and 53 university directors from Japan .
Deputy PM Nhan said that in the current integration process, developinghigh-quality human resources is the leading priority and nationalpolicy of Vietnam . The Vietnamese education sector is exerting effortsto find measures to comprehensively reform university education,improve the quality of teaching and scientific research, and combinetraining with the demands of society to make a breakthrough inimproving the quality of human resource training to serve the nationalindustrialisation and modernisation process.
He stated that learning and sharing experiences with advanceduniversities in the region and the world is important and necessary.
Nhan also said that the conference was an opportunity for educationadministrators, policy makers and university rectors in Japan andVietnam to exchange experiences in their fields and work out measuresto boost cooperation between their universities in future.
A preventative of the Education and Training Ministry introducedparticipants to a project to build the International University in thecentral city of Da Nang into a university for research, with Japan as astrategic partner. Vietnam will enrol its best students to theuniversity.
The university will be built with the aim of bringing Vietnam to the top 200 universities in the world by 2030.
Japan is one of biggest donors of official development assistance (ODA)to Vietnam . The Japanese government has so far helped build 256primary schools in 17 provinces in flood-prone areas and fourmountainous northern provinces .
The country also helped improve the capacity of education and trainingand scientific research for a number of universities in Vietnam andgrants scholarships to Vietnamese students every year.
Moreover, a series of projects at the primary and university levels andon human resource development have been carried out with non-refundableaid from the Japanese government.
At present, about 2,800 Vietnamese students are studying in Japan .
In march 2008, education ministries of the two countries signed amemorandum of understanding on Japan helping train 1,000 Ph.D.s atuniversities in Japan from 2008-2010. In addition, many bilateralcooperation projects between universities of the two countries obtainedgood results./.
