Intel Products Vietnam and the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) late last week granted 109 scholarships totaling VNC708.5 million to female students from 13 universities and vocational schools in Vietnam.
A contingent of more than 30 delegates from the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, led by Party Secretary Nguyen Thin Nhan, met with Arizona State University officials at the McCain Center in Washington, D.C. on December 16 to begin an initiative to support the HCMC Smart Sustainable City Project.
Arizona State University and Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City are forging a long-term agreement to pursue an array of collaborative ventures aimed at mutual goals in academics, research, global educational leadership and economic development.
The Maker to Entrepreneurship Program supports prototypical startups and promotes their innovative ideas and scalable products. MEP came out of a series of Maker Innovation Forums sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and organized by Arizona State University in the cities of Ho Chi Minh City, Danang, Hanoi and Can Tho. At these forums, entrepreneurs, small business owners, startups, makers and inventors connected with government representatives responsible for developing and administering innovation and entrepreneurship policy.
In Vietnam, with strong foreign direct investment investment and rapid economic growth, employers are struggling to find the right workers with adequate and relevant skills. To address this challenge, the Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP), Arizona State University and Intel launched the inaugural Workforce Development Council meeting on August 18.
During September 6–8, leadership from eight Vietnamese universities participated in the Policy and Leadership Seminar III on Leading University Policy Realization as part of the BUILD-IT Alliance.
From September 7 to October 2, 2017, the BUILD-IT project conducted a series of 14 in-country workshops on international accreditation, quality assurance and evaluation of student learning. More than 550 participants from BUILD-IT and non-BUILD-IT universities and education organizations in both STEM and non-STEM areas from Can Tho, Ho Chi Minh City, Danang, Hue and Hanoi participated in the workshops.
During the third of week of August, Ho Chi Minh University of Technology and Education hosted a Moodle training seminar for 30 English faculty members chaired by Tin Dang. Arizona State University Instructional Designer Ngoc Ngo and Global Educator James Cervin conducted a week-long training that focused on improving the digital pedagogy and delivery of language learning modalities through a learning management system.
