Vietnam ranked the second among 56 countries in receiving the Australian government's highly-contested Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships for 2014.
Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Hugh Borrowman granting the Endeavour scholarship to one of Vietnamese winners
The Australian Embassy in Vietnam on January 10 granted Endeavour scholarship to 44 Vietnamese people with a total VND129 billion (USD6.2 million).
The Endeavour Scholarship Programme included the four catagories of post-graduate education, the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Awards, vocational training and short-term study and training courses for managers in a variety of sectors of education, including IT and economics.
Most notably, for the third year in a row, Vietnamese candidates won the highest number of prestigious Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Awards, with ten out of the top twenty post-graduate applications in the region.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Hugh Borrowman, said, “This is a remarkable achievement for Vietnam and and the country should take pride.”
He also said that Australia and Vietnam have developed a close cooperation in area of education, focusing on Vietnamese priorities. He added that, in the near future, the two-countries educational systems will also focus on vocational training, which Vietnam is in need of.
The ambassador also said that education is an important part of the 40-year diplomatic relationship between Vietnam and Australia.
