Vietnam - Russia : International forum marks 50th anniversary of educationnal partnership
HANOI - An international forum opened in Hanoi today to mark the 50th establishment anniversary of Vietnamese-Russian educational partnership.
Taking part, alongside the two countries' Education ministers, are spokesmen of Russia's ten top-notch higher educational institutions. Representing Moscow are Lomonosov State University, the State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), the Power Engineering and Automotive Engineering Institutes, the Institute of Economics and Law, and the Gubkin State Oil and Gas University. The other Russian universities and institutes involved in the celebration base in St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don. Rectors of a majority of Vietnam's higher educational establishments are participating in the forum.
The host country's Education Ministry offered impressive statistics to the forum. More than 52,000 Vietnamese nationals were educated in the former Soviet Union, and later in Russia and other CIS countries. More than 30,000 received higher education, 3,000 won Candidate's degrees, and 200 Doctor's. 98,000 received vocational training to become competent specialists employed as technicians or vocational school teachers.
The VINACORVUZ association of Vietnamese graduates from Russian/Soviet higher educational establishments was set up in 1983. Ten years later, it acquired official membership of the INCORVUZ international association of such alumni in other countries. The VINACORVUZ is the world's largest association of graduates from Russian/Soviet higher educational establishments, said Victor Petrenko, international educational partnership board vice-manager at Russia's Federal Educational Agency.
The forum will close tomorrow, November 8. The Hanoi Friendship Palace hosts a gala rally tonight. It is expected to gather roughly two thousand. It will come as a 9th annual reunion of Vietnamese nationals who were educated or employed in Russia and other CIS countries. Phan Van Khai,Vietnam's Prime Minister, will attend the event.
RIA Novosti - November 07, 2004
Vietnam wants to increase education cooperation with Russia
HANOI - Viet Nam wants to increase its education cooperation with Russia and will create very favourable conditions for that goal, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem stated at a forum in Ha Noi on Sunday on the fifty years of Viet nam-Russia education cooperation. At the forum, organised by the Ministry of Education and Training, the Government leader reiterated the Vietnamese Government and people's gratitude for the former Soviet Union's tremendous assistance to Viet Nam's human resource training in the past half century.
Vietnamese and Russian officials attending the forum recalled the two countries' cooperation and assistance programmes in education over the past 50 years, and also discussed orientations for further cooperation in the future.
As planned, the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and its Russian counterpart will sign an education cooperation agreement for the 2004-06 period and an agreement on mutual recognition of academic certificates and diplomas, as well as work together in a host of integrated programmes of tertiary training designed to train Vietnamese students and officials.
Viet Nam and the former Soviet Union signed their first education cooperation agreement in 1955. Thus far, the Soviet Union, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States have helped Viet Nam train 52,000 scientists, technicians, cultural and social activists (including 30,000 bachelors and 3,200 M.A and
Ph.D holders), and 98,000 technical workers, and vocational training teachers.Viet Nam has received around 200 Russian students and teachers to study the Vienamese language in the country, 30 undergraduate and five post-graduate students
Since 2003, around 400 Vietnamese citizens have received scholarships to study in Russia annually. In the 2002-03 academic year, over 3,000 Vietnamese students studied at their own expense in Russia.
Vietnam News Agency - November 07, 2004
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