Vietnam Needs US$312.5Mln to Upgrade Teacher Training Facilities
Vietnam is in need of VND5 trillion (US$312.5 million) to upgrade educational administrative facilities and teacher training schools in the period of 2006-2010, said the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET).
Of the figure, some US$25 million will be allocated to two main teachers’ universities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Another US$131.25 million will be invested in 118 other teachers’ schools nationwide.
The investment will be mostly spent upgrading equipment, textbooks and libraries, an MoET official said.
To this end, a US$156.25 million project training teachers and educational administrators, and upgrading facilities at teachers’ schools will be carried out in 2007.
The government will continue to invest in the modernization of teaching tools, libraries, labs, as well build more dorms and university professors’ offices.
According to the ministry, no more local teachers’ schools will be established in the next four years. Existing schools will be upgraded to interdisciplinary ones, including the teachers’ training faculty.
At present, Vietnam has 122 teacher schools with about 60,000 lecturers, of whom 33 per cent hold post-graduate degrees.
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