New decree paves the way for foreign educational co-operation and investment in VNVietNamNet Bridge – A foreign project to establish a higher education institution in Viet Nam must secure total investment funds of at least VND1 trillion (US$44.5million), according to a draft decree on foreign investment in education newly issued by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET). The decree also eliminates regulations on the proportion of Vietnamese students at educational institutions. Decree 73 regulates that foreign nursery schools can not recruit Vietnamese students. “Degrees and certificates of foreign teachers must be recognised by authorised educational agencies. Decree 73 required joint training programmes’ teachers at foreign universities to have five-year’s experience and master’s degrees.

Source: VietNamNet News February 16, 2017 07:28 UTC