Vietnam and Cuba have freshly signed an agreement on higher education
exchange and cooperation and renewed commitments to continuously
cementing their ties on human resource training and scientific research.
That outcome came from the talks between Minister
of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan and Cuban Minister of Higher
Education Rodolfo Alarcon during the former’s visit to Cuba from
April 16-20.
At the talks, Minister Luan thanked the Cuban Party
and Government for training thousands of Vietnamese officials, experts
and engineers in the last decades.
Rodolfo Alarcon told his guest
that education has been a top priority of the Cuban Government over the
past 50 years, and that recent educational reforms in his country have
concentrated much on improving the quality of tertiary education.
During the visit, Minister Luan met with Cuban First
Vice President of State Council and Council of Ministers Miguel Diaz
Canel, who stated that Cuba always stands side by side with Vietnam
in educating their young generations on patriotism and equipping them
with knowledge to make their nations strong, just and civilised.
Luan also had a working session with Cuban Education Minister Ena Elsa
Hernandez to share experience and information on the local education
system, particularly the education for the disabled.
He met with Vietnamese students studying at Cuban universities in Havana.-VNA