November 29, 2017 | 20:42 (GMT+7)
Vietnam, Poland boost education, sci-tech cooperation
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam met Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Higher Education Jaroslaw Gowin in Hanoi on November 29, with discussion focusing on bilateral engagements in education and science-technology.
At the meeting, Dam stressed
education and science-technology cooperation between Vietnam
and Poland began in 1960,
saying thousands of Vietnamese students and postgraduates have been trained in Poland.
Global integration and
scientific-technological development bring about requirements and conditions
for the two sides’ collaboration to grow further, he added.
They valued the signing of a
university-level cooperation agreement pact between the Vietnamese Ministry of
Education and Training and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
The deal included the increase of
their respective number of scholarships granted to the other side to 20 per
year, particularly in the subjects of engineering, mining-geology, agriculture,
and food technology.
Deputy PM Dam said he expects the
two ministries to soon negotiate and ink an agreement on qualifications
reference framework to promote learning mobility.
He also mentioned the signing of a
letter of intent on setting up a Polish course between Hanoi University
and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Both host and guest highlighted
coordination between relevant Vietnamese and Polish agencies in preparation for
the next session of the Vietnam-Poland Joint Committee for Science-Technology
Cooperation next year.
Source: VNA