Last month saw British University Vietnam commence construction of a $70 million campus in the northern province of Hung Yen’s Ecopark township, on an area of 6.5 hectares. Construction will last until 2016. This campus would provide training programmes on international business administration, marketing, accounting finance, business finance and banking finance. British University Vietnam is also planning to co-operate with a Malaysian partner to build an educational and training establishment in the central city of Danang.
Also last month, Singapore’s KinderWorld Education Group, one of Vietnam’s biggest foreign educational and training investors, officially inaugurated its Pegasus Mixed Educational Development including Pegasus international college and Singapore international school in the central city of Danang. The group is currently operating 15 educational and training establishments in Vietnam, with different brand names like SIS, KIK and SVIS, providing bilingual training courses for pupils and students of all ages, in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Danang, and the southern provinces of Vung Tau and Binh Duong.
“KinderWorld’s projects are quite significant to Vietnam, contributing to improving the country’s educational and training quality from kindergartens to schools, and also to Vietnam’s development of a high-quality workforce,” said Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen The Phuong.
Figures of the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment showed that many foreign investors like British University Vietnam and KinderWorld were eager to invest in Vietnam’s educational and training sector.