Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung (R) and Trade Envoy of the British Prime Minister Edward Vaizey (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Chairman of theHanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has highly evaluated the UK’s educationand training environment and hoped to expand cooperation with the Europeancountry in the field.
In his working session with a delegationfrom British education establishments led by Trade Envoy of the British PrimeMinister Edward Vaizey in Hanoi on October 3, Chung said the city is planningto make foreign languages, mainly English language, and Informatics, compulsorysubjects at all schools.
However, Hanoi is facing difficulties due to low English proficiency of manyteachers, Chung said, expressing his hope that the city will be supported bythe UK to build a standard foreign language training programme for teachers.
This will be a foundation for the cityto successfully realise its foreign language universalisation programme, thustargeting further goals such as becoming a smart city or a startup and creativecity in the context of increasing international integration, he said.
For his part, Vaizey showed his good impression for Hanoi’s development, sayingthat the UK has been interested in cooperation, research and investment ineducation and training with countries around the world, including Vietnam.
He hoped that the UK would have moreopportunities to connect and set up education-training partnership with Hanoiin the near future.
As one of the countries with the oldest education in the world, the UK can share its experience with Vietnam in general and Hanoi in particular, in operatinginternational standard schools as an inevitable development trend of the globe,he said./.
VNA
