Strong educational cooperation is a testament to the Vietnam - Angola friendship
Báo Giáo dục và Thời đại•20/08/2024
GD&TĐ - 50 years have passed, but the education sector is always mentioned when referring to Vietnam - Angola relations.
Minister Nguyen Kim Son and comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto, Politburo member, Party Central Committee Secretary in charge of foreign affairs of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
On the afternoon of August 20, at the Ministry of Education and Training, Minister Nguyen Kim Son had a meeting with comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee in charge of foreign affairs of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the working delegation who are visiting and working in Vietnam.
Vietnamese teachers help Angola establish new education system
Welcoming comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto and his delegation to Vietnam, Minister Nguyen Kim Son wished the delegation a memorable day with the expected working results. The Minister said: Vietnam and Angola have a traditional friendship. The two countries maintain good relations through both Party and State channels and people-to-people exchanges. Cooperation in the political and diplomatic fields is a bright spot in bilateral relations; the two countries actively coordinate and support each other at multilateral forums. The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is one of the first political parties with which the Communist Party of Vietnam established relations since the 1970s. The two Parties maintain a traditional friendship. Over the past time, the relationship between the two Parties has developed well, contributing to strengthening political trust and confidence between generations of leaders and people of the two countries. Reception scene. Expressing his gratitude for the warm welcome of Minister Nguyen Kim Son, comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto shared his joy and honor to visit Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training. According to comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto, “that honor has its own special reason”. That is, the field of education and training is a testament to the friendship between Vietnam and Angola. “Less than a year after Angola gained independence, a group of Vietnamese teachers came to support us in education and training. It was those teachers who helped us establish a new education system, replacing the education system maintained by the colonialists for a long time. 50 years have passed but the field of education is always mentioned when referring to the Vietnam - Angola relationship”, comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto shared. Emphasizing that “the presence of the MPLA delegation at the Ministry of Education and Training is to express deep and lasting gratitude to the Government and the education sector of Vietnam for their support in building a new Angola”, comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto also expressed his belief that this visit through the Party channel will contribute to strengthening recent cooperation agreements between the two countries, including in the field of education and training. Minister Nguyen Kim Son.
Important lever to promote Vietnam - Angola cooperation
Previously, in March 2024, with the permission of the two governments, Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son and Angolan Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Maria do Rosário Bragança chaired the 7th Session of the Vietnam - Angola Intergovernmental Committee. Informing about the results of this Session and the work implemented after the Session, Minister Nguyen Kim Son affirmed: The 7th Session held after a 10-year interruption is a concrete demonstration of the efforts of the two sides to promote multifaceted cooperation between the two countries. Also on the occasion of the 7th Session, the Minister and the Vietnamese delegation had a working session with Ms. Luísa Damião, Vice President of the MPLA Party. At the meeting, the two sides shared their views that the 7th Session of the Vietnam - Angola Intergovernmental Committee is an important lever to promote Vietnam - Angola cooperation in many fields. The Minister said that after the Session, the Prime Minister of Vietnam approved the Minutes of the 7th Session, and the Ministry of Education and Training sent these Minutes to all relevant ministries and branches to request specific plans to implement the committed contents. Some ministries and branches have had specific negotiation and exchange activities. As the Chairman of the Vietnam Sub-Committee, the Ministry of Education and Training actively urged and closely coordinated with the parties to promote effective and substantive cooperation. Comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto. In the field of education and training, at the 7th Session, the two sides reaffirmed the need to review the Cooperation Agreements signed since 2008 to suit the actual situation. The Ministry of Education and Training has sent the draft Agreements to Angola through the Angolan Ambassador to Vietnam. Within the framework of the signed Protocols, since 2011, the Ministry of Education and Training has sent 131 new experts to teach at universities, colleges and high schools in Angola. The total number of experts working in Angola peaked at 112 in 2015. Since 2017, the total number of experts has gradually decreased to only 1/3 in 2019. Currently, there are no Vietnamese education experts in Angola. “At the 7th Session, the two sides agreed to resume sending Vietnamese education experts to work in Angola. We hope that Angola will provide information on the needs and conditions of experts so that the Ministry of Education and Training can deploy the recruitment of suitable experts" - providing this information, the Minister also mentioned some specific cooperation being promoted between Vietnamese and Angolan higher education institutions. Minister Nguyen Kim Son, comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto and representatives of both sides took a souvenir photo at the reception.
At the meeting, in addition to information on the implementation of cooperation activities after the 7th Session of the Vietnam - Angola Intergovernmental Committee, Minister Nguyen Kim Son also discussed and shared the contents that the MPLA delegation was interested in, such as the Vietnamese education system, the process of perfecting institutions for education and training development, human resource training, etc. Thanking the information exchanged by Minister Nguyen Kim Son, comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto shared that these exchanges showed Vietnam's vision on the role of education in the country's development and also explained Vietnam's success in the development process. "We will work more actively to promote continued cooperation with Vietnam," comrade Manuel Domingos Augusto affirmed.
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