VN-Canada vocational school launched

The school covers a 50,000-square-meter area and requires a total investment capital of VND 225 billion.

The project is carried out in two phrases. The first one, finished in December last year, cost VND 147.7 billion for building classrooms and purchasing teaching equipments. International-standard dormitories will be built in the second phrase (June 2009-December 2010) to cater 3,500 students and teachers.

The school provides many training courses, lasting for six, eight, 12 and 18 months, in such specialties like informatics, electronic techniques, electronic assembly, metal wielding, office profession, accounting, English, aesthetics and others. Especially, there are also foreign cultural and law courses for people going to work abroad.

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Deputy PM Trương Vĩnh Trọng welcomed efforts made by the province and investors in mobilizing the whole society to engage in developing a new type of vocational education.

The school will play an active role in promoting the country’s vocational education standard to better serve the cause of modernization and industrialization and lift up the efficiency of labor export as well as the position of Vietnamese workers in the international arena, said the Deputy PM.

By Hải Minh