Nagasaki begins manpower drive in central Vietnam

Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan will begin recruiting first year students from central Vietnam to work and study in healthcare services from 2021.
Nagasaki begins manpower drive in central Vietnam ảnh 1At the event (Photo: VNA)
Da Nang (VNS/VNA) — Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan will beginrecruiting first year students from central Vietnam to work andstudy in healthcare services from 2021.

The Vietnamese students will also receive language lessons, accommodationand long-term employment in Japan in the future.

Director of the Healthcare and Social Welfare Bureau of Nagasaki Nakata Katsumimade the announcement during an online ceremony to mark the signing ofa Memorandum of Understanding on human resources training and recruitmentbetween Nagasaki and the Da Nang-based Dong A College on November 20.

It is the seventh city in Japan to sign a recruitment agreement witha college in Da Nang.

“We are very happy and will welcome the first students from centralVietnam to Nagasaki for working and studying. Nagasaki will offer the mostfavourable conditions and priorities for Vietnamese studentswith skills training, education and working opportunities,” Nakata Katsumisaid after the ceremony.

“Nagasaki and Vietnam has a prolonged historic relationship, and Da Nangis a part of Vietnam that Nagasaki has built very close ties with,”he said, adding that Dong A College and Nagasaki University hadpreviously inked a comprehensive co-operation agreement.

Chairman of Dong A College Council Luong Minh Sam said more than 200students from the college had already been working in Japan, and at least 500more students would be sent to Japan next year.

He said the second batch of qualified students in nursery serviceshad been recruited for 18-month contracts at the Kameda medical centre inChiba Prefecture.

Japanese companies employed nearly 300 students from the college at arecruitment day in September, and those students will be working in differentservices and industries in Japan for one year.

Partners from Japan and the city-based college previously established theJapanese Culture and Language Exchange Centre in Da Nangto provide education opportunities for 2,000 students in central Vietnam.

Yokohama, Maebashi, Chiba, Fukuoka and Shizuoka and 72 businesses from Japanhave also agreed to recruit human resources from central Vietnam.
The college sent representatives to Tokyo to boost educationco-operation between central Vietnam and Japan last month.

Dong A College is the only private education centre in central Vietnamsupplying human resources for the Japanese labour market./.
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