Ministry and USAID sign MOU to expand cooperation in higher education

September 12, 2022 - 09:02 PM

The United States Agency for International Development has announced that it has signed its first-ever Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education and Training to improve the quality of Vietnamese higher education.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday announced that it has signed its first-ever Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) to improve the quality of Vietnamese higher education.

The MOU was signed on September 9 by MOET Minister Nguyễn Kim Sơn and USAID/Vietnam Mission Director Aler Grubbs.

The United States Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Education and Training sign an MOU to improve the quality of Vietnamese higher education on September 9. Photo by USAID

The MOU builds upon USAID’s decade-long cooperation with Vietnam on higher education partnership programs. The MOU expands USAID’s support to MOET to advance Vietnam’s higher education to be even more innovative and competitive.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Mission Director Grubbs said that they applauded the Government of Vietnam on its reforms to build a globally-competitive higher education system.

“This first-ever MOU between USAID and the Ministry of Education and Training marks our ongoing commitment to collaborate on a wide range of higher education partnership programs that will directly support MOET’s ambitious higher education reform goals,” he said.

With the signing of the MOU, USAID will support MOET with a new project that will provide direct technical assistance to review and improve higher education policies. Improving policies will advance university autonomy, quality assurance, digital transformation and innovations in key sectors that are critical to Vietnam’s continued economic growth and development.

Source: dtinews.vn

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