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Vietnam plans to train 10,000 doctors overseas | Look At Vietnam

Vietnam is putting in place plans to train over 10,000 doctors overseas.
Participants at the workshop
To this end the Ministry of Education and Training is setting up a cooperative education program with a number of foreign countries according to Deputy Minister Pham Vu Luan.

Luan stressed at a two-day workshop on building partnership relations in university education, the opportunities and challenges involved and that training doctors overseas is one of the future priorities of the ministry.

The workshop has gathered more than 500 participants, made up of education experts and representatives from businesses and education organizations in the US and Vietnam.

In 2010, under Government Project 322 it is expected that 1,000 doctors will be sent abroad to study using state money.

Luan said that his ministry plans to work with large organizations such as the World Bank and Asia Development Bank on loans to build excellent universities.

Also under the program they intend to build on international cooperation and the ministry is compiling a project on attracting overseas Vietnamese and foreign scientists to give lecturers and carry out research at universities and junior colleges in Vietnam

The ministry plans to increase university education quality assessment and accreditation. It has decided that, by the end of 2010, at least 30 percent of universities will complete the self-assessment reports, while other universities must complete this work no later than 2011.

Luan said that in the next three years, Vietnam will see at least one independent education quality accreditation organization set up every year

On the sidelines of the workshop, the US Ambassador to Vietnam Michael Michalak told the press that education quality accreditation is one of the two most important issues that Vietnam’s education needs to pay attention to. The other issue is giving more self-control to universities.

He said that these are the important issues which can help Vietnam’s higher education come closer to the world standards. He added that the US can help Vietnam in university education assessment.

A range of topics were discussed in teams at the workshop, including the enhancement of the development of universities in Vietnam, the building up of US style universities in Vietnam and the increasing the numbers of Vietnamese students in the US.

These three topics are also the key issues in the cooperation at Government level between the US and Vietnam in university education.

Mr Michalak said that the US advocates plans to build a US-style university in Vietnam, while offering to help recruit managers and lecturers as well as mobilize financial sources.

Also according to the ambassador, the number of Vietnamese students studying in the US has increased by 2.5 times over the last two years.

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