Australia and Vietnam renew education ties

Australian Ambassador Hugh Borrowman and Prof Pham Vu Luan, Minister for Education and Coaching signed typically the MOU on Cooperation in Education and Coaching on 24th October 2013. The particular renewal on the MOU, first signed in 1994, is a big milestone inside the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations.

With the 40 many years of education cooperation, Vietnam and Australia became shut education associates, sharing most of the challenges of delivering quality, related education in the swiftly changing world.

Education cooperation began inside the earliest days and nights
on the diplomatic relationship, along with the initial Australian scholarships for Vietnam. About yesteryear 40 decades Australia has provided a few 4, 000 scholarships to Vietnam.

Direct from Nineteen nineties, Vietnamese families have sent kids to study in Australia. There may be currently a lot of Vietnamese students in Australia, a few 22, 000, than from the other country in Southeast East Asia. About yesteryear 40 decades, greater than 40, 000 Vietnamese have studied in Australia.

Given that 2000, Australian qualifications are delivered in Vietnam as well as through partnership along with Vietnamese establishments.
The particular maturing on the education relationship was marked in 2011 through the establishment on the Vietnam-Australia Joint Operating Cluster on Education and Coaching enabling the two main countries to show their approaches to education reform, governance, quality assurance, increasing tutorial and student mobility and analysis collaboration.

This renewal on the MoU comes as Australia and Vietnam are coming into a fresh phase inside the education relationship.
The particular recently elective Australian Government, mindful of the facility of international education to broaden minds and produce valuable personal and institutional links has announced a signature initiative - typically the New Colombo Arrange - which should allow larger numbers of Australians to study and undertake internships in Asia.

Trying ahead, typically the bilateral education relationship can proceed to function scholarships, Australia can proceed to welcome Vietnamese and a lot of Australian and Vietnamese establishments can partner to produce joint programs and expand analysis collaboration.

The particular New Colombo Arrange can herald a fresh phase inside the education relationship, along with several a lot of young Australians studying, researching and attaining skilled expertise in Vietnam.
HE Mr Hugh Borrowman, Australian Ambassador to Vietnam and HE Prof Pham Vu Luan, Minister for Education and Coaching signed the actual MOU on Cooperation in Education and Coaching on 24th October 2013.



Line 1 : Ms Sally Burnard, Counsellor (Education and Science), Australian Ambassador Mr Hugh Borrowman, Minister Pham Vu Luan, Mr Tran Ba Viet Dzung, Director General for International Cooperation, Dr Nguyen Thi Thanh Minh, Deputy Director General for Vietnam International Education Development
Line 2 : Dr Bui Anh Tuan, Director General for Better Education, Dr Ta Duc Thinh, Director General for Science, Knowhow and Environment, Mr Nguyen Khang, Deputy Director General for Complex and Vocational Education and Coaching, Mr Nguyen Duc Huu, Deputy Director General for Main Education, Mr Nguyen Ba Minh, Director General for Early Childhood Education, MOET