January 15, 2007 | 23:41 (GMT+7)
FPT University begins first academic year
FPT University began its first academic year on January 13 with the participation of some information technology groups...
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FPT University signed a agreement with IBM |
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University began its first academic year on January 13 with the participation of some information technology groups.
During the opening ceremony, Rector Le Truong Tung said 299 students had been enrolled by the university. Among them, 44 have been granted scholarships and 84 have been given loans.
Majors are being taught in English and Japanese in the second year. In the third year, students will apprentice in software companies and then work for FPT after graduation.
Notably, FPT has signed a cooperation agreement with IBM, one of the world’s leading information technology groups, to exchange training programmes and curriculum regularly.
Students with IBM certificates will be considered as having passed a subject at FPT University.
After the ceremony, FPT Corp. presented 500,000 USD worth of scholarships to excellent students and the Bank of Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) gave 84 credit loans worth more than 600,000 USD to poor students with good studying records.
Source: vnexpress
Translated by Mai Huong