Aftercompleting a Vietnamese language course at Son La College, the studentsgo on to continue their studies at vocational schools, colleges anduniversities in Son La.
Since 2002, Son La hashelped to train over 500 students for the eight Lao northern provincesin health care, agro-forestry, teaching and economics.
MA Le Anh Tuan, the rector of Son La Medical College, said that hisinstitution first started admitting students from Laos in 1970 and35 students from seven northern Laotian provinces are currently studyingthere.
After graduating, the students return homeand help to take care of ethnic minority peoples in Laos ’s northernmountainous region, said Tuan.
Son La and Laos ’northern provinces plan to cooperate together in the future and theprovince will continue to offer more scholarships to Lao students.-VNA