Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan and Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of Cambodia Im Sethy on August 28 signed a cooperation plan on education and human resources training. In terms of human resources training, in 2012, Vietnam will receive 120 Cambodian students and post-graduates who take courses in science and technology, Vietnamese language and other fields while Cambodia will admit 15 Vietnamese students to have regular lessons at Cambodia ’s universities.

In terms of human resources training, in 2012, Vietnam will receive 120 Cambodian students and post-graduates who take courses in science and technology, Vietnamese language and other fields while Cambodia will admit 15 Vietnamese students to have regular lessons at Cambodia ’s universities. It will also receive 20 Vietnamese officials to learn Khmer language over a two year period. Beside scholarship programmes, the two sides will hold delegation exchanges. Acknowledging the effective support from the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) in the past, Minister Im Sethy said he hopes the two countries’ educational cooperations grow closer and develop more, especially in technical education. Minister Luan affirmed the MoET’s determination to strengthen wider and deeper ties with the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Cambodia. Vietnam will continue boosting cooperation in human resources training, especially in border areas, exchanging experiences in vocational training and supporting each other in infrastructure, he added. Earlier, the two ministers held talks and discussions on educational cooperation between the two countries, as well as bringing out methods to further strengthen the two ministries’ relationship./.