Construction starts on Vietnam-Germany University in Binh Duong
Thứ sáu, 07/10/2016 13:38
Politburo member and President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan attended a ceremony in Thoi Hoa ward, Ben Cat town, the southern province of Binh Duong on October 6 to start work on the Vietnam-Germany University (VGU).
At the ceremony (Photo: vietnamnet.vn/)
Speaking at the ceremony, VFF President Nhan expressed his hope that the educational establishment would help increase the position of Vietnam’s education sector in the region and help it to meet international standards.
This should be viewed as a breakthrough in the country’s university and postgraduate education reform effort in service of national industrialisation and modernisation, he noted.
The US$200 million University is one of the first new-model public education establishments of Vietnam. It was founded in 2008 on an area of 50.5 ha in Binh Duong province, under a co-operation agreement between Vietnam and the German Federal State of Hessen.
According to the managing board, the unit has trained nearly 1,300 students in 11 training programmes in both English and German languages so far, focusing on science-technology, engineering, information technology, business management.
It has set a target of raising the number of students to 5,000 by 2020 and 12,000 ten years later.
With the target of becoming an international-standard university for science studies, the unit provides high-quality training programmes under the standard of Germany’s partner universities.
The VGU currently offers Bachelor’s and Master’s courses in the fields of engineering, natural sciences, economics and management, which are suitable with Vietnam’s development and international integration demand.
Source: NDO