On the afternoon of April 2nd, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received a delegation from RMIT Melbourne University, Australia, led by Professor Alec Cameron, Director cum Vice President of the University Council, who is visiting and working in Vietnam.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highly appreciated the contributions of RMIT University, especially RMIT Vietnam in the past 25 years in training high-quality human resources and promoting educational cooperation between Vietnam and Australia.
The Prime Minister said that Vietnam identifies education - training and development of high-quality human resources as a national policy, one of the strategic priorities, especially in the context of promoting digital transformation, innovation and knowledge economy development, serving 2 100-year goals.
Recalling his visit to RMIT Melbourne University 2 years ago during his visit to Australia, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh was pleased to see that educational and training cooperation between Vietnam and Australia has developed positively in recent times, in which the activities of reputable international educational institutions such as RMIT have made an important contribution to improving the quality of training, strengthening academic exchanges and mutual understanding between the people of the two countries.
To continue to promote the effectiveness of educational cooperation between RMIT and Vietnam in the coming time, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested RMIT to continue to promote the effectiveness of training programs in Vietnam, contributing to improving the quality of human resources and international integration capacity of Vietnamese students, making positive contributions to the development of the higher education system in Vietnam.
The Prime Minister emphasized that if RMIT identifies Vietnam as a stronghold, it must invest in facilities, strengthen the teaching staff, stabilize learning materials so that RMIT Vietnam ensures the true meaning of a university; expand training scale and diversify occupations, especially in fields where Vietnam has high training needs such as digital technology, artificial intelligence, green economy, innovation and technology management.
RMIT needs to strengthen cooperation with businesses, research organizations and educational institutions in Vietnam, contributing to promoting the innovation, startup and knowledge transfer ecosystem; promote scholarship programs and research cooperation to create more opportunities for Vietnamese students to access the international education environment and develop comprehensively.
RMIT University Melbourne Director Alec Cameron said that RMIT is committed to operating in Vietnam not only for profit but also to contributing to training high-quality human resources for Vietnam.
Stating that RMIT currently plans to open branches in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Director Alec Cameron hopes that the Prime Minister will direct ministries, branches, and localities to promote the settlement of procedures for RMIT to expand its operations in Vietnam.
Affirming that the Government always creates favorable conditions for reputable international educational institutions operating in Vietnam, including RMIT, on the basis of complying with Vietnamese law and making positive contributions to the development of the national education system, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that ministries, branches, and relevant agencies of Vietnam are actively resolving procedures, removing obstacles, and creating conditions for the RMIT Vietnam University Branch project in Hanoi.
