The third
policy dialogue in the framework of the EU project on Support to Higher
Education in the ASEAN Region (SHARE) opened in Hanoi on June 8, gathering over
150 senior educational leaders, managers, scholars and students from the host
country, ASEAN and the EU.
Delegates
at the event discussed necessary tools to enhance student mobility, especially
through credit transfer systems and scholarships, towards the goal of creating
a dynamic tertiary educational sector and enhancing the competitiveness of
ASEAN member countries and the bloc as a whole.
Speaking
at the event, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga highlighted
the Vietnamese government’s policy of encouraging foreign investors and
universities to open their campuses in Vietnam. There are already a number of
international universities operating in the country, such as the
Vietnam-Germany University (VGU), the Vietnam-Japan University (VJU), and the Vietnam-France
University.
Besides
this, the country has actively developed a national qualification framework
which is based on the ASEAN qualification framework, in order to further
bolster student mobility as well as labour movement in the ASEAN Economic
Community (AEC).
Head of
the EU Delegation to Vietnam Ambassador Bruno Angelet shared that the EU is
supporting 18 research projects in Vietnam, which are being carried out by
leading universities in Vietnam and the EU. These projects are in such areas as
substantial agriculture, food safety and energy management.
SHARE is
an EU funded project worth 10 million EUR with an overarching objective of
strengthening regional cooperation, and enhancing the quality, competitiveness
and internationalisation of ASEAN higher education institutions and students,
contributing to an ASEAN Community beyond 2015.
Starting
from 2016, the project will provide about 500 scholarships for students from
the ASEAN region, mainly through student exchanges and credit recognisation in
the region.
It also
aims to enhance cooperation between the EU and the ASEAN Economic Community
(AEC) and to create lasting benefits from the harmonisation of higher education
across ASEAN.
VNA
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