President urges education sector to focus on developing “global citizens”President Tran Dai Quang has urged the education sector to focus on developing high quality human resources and training “global citizens” in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution, especially in IT, nano technology, automation, telecommunications, new material and energy. President Tran Dai Quang visits tradition house of the Ministry of Education and TrainingDuring a New Year visit to the Ministry of Education and Training on February 4, the President asked the sector to reform its educating approach to optimize creativity and start-up skills of learners. The sector should work harder in supporting the cooperation between training facilities and enterprises, while seeking new training models in combination with the restructuring of training programmes in a number of areas to produce a contingent of “global engineers,” he suggested. Alongside, the sector should forge closer links between training facilities and science-technology organizations and research institutes, while building strong research groups and institutes, universities to the regional standards in various fields, he requested. President Tran Dai Quang also asked ministries, sectors and localities invest more in education as part of efforts to boost the country’s growth.

Source: VietNamNet News February 05, 2017 05:41 UTC