Foreign Trade University: Leading Light in International Training

Since its establishment, the university devised a mission of nurturing and providing high quality human resources specialising in economics, business, and foreign languages to meet the labour market of Vietnam and the world, and develop learning and research capabilities to become a leading research centre and a famous university in the region and the world. To this end, Professor Hoang Van Chau, Rector of Foreign Trade University, said: "Foreign Trade University is now innovating in both training and research activities.”

 

With its new development strategy, Foreign Trade University has expanded international training, focused on training thinking methods, creativity and workability in a global environment where there is the spirit of high responsibility. The university has partnered with several reputable universities in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Australia, Denmark and other countries to build international training programmes, each of which is carefully and meticulously designed to ensure the highest convenience and suitability for learners in Vietnam. In September 2009, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with Danish Education Minister and expressed his desire that Denmark would strengthen linkage and cooperation with Vietnam’s training universities. Right after that, the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College to carry out the joint training programme between the latter and Vietnamese universities.

 

Foreign Trade University is honoured to be the only school in the country to be selected to implement training collaboration with Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College of Denmark. Only two months after the MoU signing, in November 2009, the two universities devised the plan to carry out the full-time Financial and Service Management Bachelor Degree Programme at Foreign Trade University. In January 2010, an agreement on the establishment of the first bachelor-degree level associated educational programme between Denmark and Vietnam was inked at Den Do Temple, Bac Ninh province. The signing was witnessed by administrators and lecturers of the Hanoi-based Foreign Trade University, Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College, representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training, Danish Ambassador to Vietnam and Danish Embassy officials. The Vietnamese university ran the second intake in the 2011 - 2012 academic year, bringing the total number of students to 100. Students are taught in English by professors from Foreign Trade University and Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College. Curricula, teaching, learning methodologies and performance assessment are based on international standards. They have the opportunity to participate in an exchange programme in Denmark as they can study in Vietnam and move to Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College at any time and are granted Bachelor's Degrees. This is one of the joint bachelor training programmes of international standard the University is carrying out.

 

Professor Hoang Van Chau said Denmark has a highly applicable and quality education system. Effective cooperation with international universities in general and Danish universities in particular not only helps increase the teaching and learning quality of Vietnamese universities, but also helps Vietnamese universities update and improve management capacity and move towards regional and international standards. To enhance cooperation effectiveness, Foreign Trade University hopes Denmark will provide continued support to access and import Danish training programmes that suit its development strategy. It also hopes the European county will introduce and open up opportunities for vocational training cooperation and scientific research cooperation between universities and research institutes of both countries, and fund projects in favour of improving research, teaching and learning capacity of Vietnamese universities. In the coming time, Foreign Trade University will continue to implement the signed Financial and Service Management Bachelor Degree Programme, create more opportunities of training cooperation in Vietnam with Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College, and seek opportunities for research cooperation with other Danish research institutes and universities.