Vietnam halts new model university project
Vietnam will surprising not co-operate with any foreign governments to open more universities until at least 2020 according to a new decision by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
The PM requested a focus on developing the existing two national universities in Hanoi and HCM City into leading universities which will gradually reach regional and world standards. The PM also said the three existing universities in the New Model University Project including the Vietnamese-German University, the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and the Vietnam-Japan University needed to be developed into world-class universities.
The Vietnamese government has been co-operating in constructing three international research universities under the New Model University Project in the country with the ambitious target of seeing them ranked in the top 200 universities in the world by 2020.
Source: Vietnam Net
