While receiving Prof.
Thomas Valleyly from the Harvard University in Hanoi on January 10, PM
Phuc said the Vietnamese Government will provide all necessary support
for the establishment and operation of the Fulbright University Vietnam
(FUV).
He said the two sides have worked together to basically solve all
legal procedures for the project and Vietnam backs the university’s
independent and non-profit higher education model in line with
international practice.
For his part, Prof. Thomas Valley revealed that the US Government
will provide funds to build FUV, adding that the US side is focusing on
establishing an appropriate management mechanism for the university,
thus making it a leading education institution in the region and the
world.
FUV’s training programmes will mainly concentrate on startup
development and global economic linkages, including the connection with
the Silicon Valley, Vietnamese entrepreneurs and scientists in the US,
he added.
According to Prof. Thomas Valley, the US public opinion highly evaluates
a recent phone call between Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and US
President-elect Donald Trump, which is hoped to promote the multifaceted
cooperation between Vietnam and the US.
FUV is the next step of the existing Fulbright Economics Teaching
Programme, a public policy master’s programme that the Ash Centre at the
Kenney School of Government under the US’s Harvard University,
established in 1994 in cooperation with the HCM City-based University of
Economics.
Leave your comment on this story