Vietnam: $96 Million to Train Students Abroad

The Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently approved a VND 2.070 trillion (US $96 million) plan that will send state officials and specially selected students to train abroad for the next seven years.

Per the plan, the country aims to increase the number of Master’s degrees earned by college lecturers at higher education institutions, research center employees, and ministry and other state officials.

The teaching profession will receive 60 percent of the funding; the remainder will be allocated among research institutions and government agencies.

Students demonstrating exceptional talents in science, as well as other technically specialized fields, will be hand-picked to enroll in “high-quality programs” at undergraduate universities in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia.

According to reports, Vietnam’s long-ranging goal is to have 1,650 people graduate with Master’s degrees and another 150 achieve university degrees by 2020.

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Written by Alice Formwalt