HCMC – Local universities which have information technology training field signed an agreement last Thursday in Phan Thiet Town to reinforce cooperation with an aim to develop the country’s IT training and application.
The schools included University of Engineering and Technology under the Vietnam National University in Hanoi, Phan Thiet University, FPT University, and the University of Information Technology under the Vietnam National University in HCMC. Joining the alliance were also Duy Tan University, Hung Vuong University, Ba Ria-Vung Tau University, Information Technology College, Hai Phong Polytechnics College, and Saigon Advanced Institute of Technology.
The signing ceremony was part of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology for Education held Thursday and Friday in HCMC and Phan Thiet.
These universities will together build learning resources consisting of curricula and materials for their IT faculties. The resources will be organized as an online library for lecturers and students from these universities.
The cooperation will also help universities effectively utilize the international human resources such as inviting professors and experts worldwide to teach and give speeches to students of the universities besides sharing materials and free international software in the field of information technology.
“These terms of the agreement will help member universities to gain the best learning results and save costs,” Hoang Van Kiem, rector of the University of Information Technology, told the Daily on the sidelines of the first day of the conference held in HCMC.
“We hope that in the near future, other universities will join our network,” he said.
Last Friday, over 300 delegates and scholars from the U.S., Canada, France, Australia, Singapore, Korea, Japan and Poland attended the second day of the conference in Phan Thiet. They discussed different IT topics, including computer-based education and e-learning, computer science and learning environment, and machine learning among others.
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