An educational workshop jointly held by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper and Japan’s Mainichi Daily News will open on Friday afternoon in Ho Chi Minh City.
The event is part of the 2015 Japan Festival in Vietnam, taking place in the city from November 12 to 15.
It is expected to be attended by former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Tsutomu Takebe, former member of the Japanese House of Representatives Mitsue Kondo, the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET)’s Director of General Secondary Education Department Vu Dinh Chuan, Deputy Director of the MoET’s International Cooperation Department Nguyen Thi Thanh Minh, and representatives of universities, colleges and vocational schools from Japan and Vietnam.
The event aims to provide an overview of Vietnam's education with an emphasis on high school education and its upcoming orientation, the situation of Vietnamese students studying in many countries including Japan, as well as issues that Vietnamese studying aboard have met with.
Earlier this morning, representatives of Japanese schools met with Vietnamese schools to exchange information and look for cooperation opportunities as well as improve training standards.
The workshop is in its final preparations to be opened at 2:00 pm at GEM Center, 8 Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, District 1.
On the morning of November 14, another workshop on studying in Japan will also be organized at Nguyen Tat Thanh University in District 4, offering information on attractive majors, recruitment conditions as well as on finance and scholarship policies.
Representatives of the Japanese schools taking part in the workshop will also give consultancy on the life and studying condition in the country for Vietnamese students and parents.
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