Three Vietnamese students will take part in the finals of the Microsoft
Office Specialist Word Championship 2014 (MOSWC) in California, the US,
from July 27-30.
The information was released at an awarding
ceremony of the national MOSWC 2014 co-organised by IIG Vietnam and Ho
Chi Minh City’s University of Foreign Languages and Information
Technology on June 11.
They are Tran Duc Duy, 10th grader from
Dinh Thien Ly School, Bui Huu Hong Hai from the University of Foreign
Languages and Information Technology, and Tran Minh Tien from the
Banking University of HCM City. They won first prizes at MOS PowerPoint,
MOS Word and MOS Excel, respectively.
This is the 5th year the competition has been held in Vietnam.
Nguyen
Vinh Hien, Deputy Minister of Education and Training, said that the
competition provides an intellectual playground for the younger
generation in Vietnam, thereby enhancing computer skills and work
performance for the future labour force in Vietnam.
It
also helped Vietnam standardise office computer skills for Vietnamese
students to meet international standards, he noted, adding it is also an
opportunity for schools to modernise their computer training
programmes.
At the event, the Ministry of Education and
Training, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper and IIG Vietnam signed an agreement
to jointly organise the competition for the 2015-2019 period.-VNA