On 20 Apr 2011, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to Viet Nam organized an annual press trip on the topic of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to Hung Yen University of Technology and Education (Hung Yen UTE) – one of the TVET institutes that benefited from Vietnamese-German cooperation in the area of TVET.  Vietnamese journalists (print media, radio and TV) as well as representatives from German Embassy to Viet Nam and GIZ discussed with the institute about achievements of the Vietnamese-German projects.

To date, Hung Yen UTE has received support in the frame of two Vietnamese-German projects: “Berufsbildungsprogramm Vietnam” (BBPV, 1995 - 2006) and the cooperation project “Promotion of TVET” (2006 - 2010). The fields of support were Electrics/Electronics (including Mechatronics), Metalwork, as well as Garment and Fashion. Hung Yen UTE highly appreciated the projects’ approaches of capacity building of both training and management personnel for the institute. It was implemented through interlocked Technical Cooperation and Financial Cooperation components. The TVET institute was supported by advisory services, further training, support in development/adaptation of training modules and of learning/teaching materials as well as supply of modern related training equipments for the university. Especially, German integrated experts were placed at the departments of pedagogy and textile/garment to support training management and effective utilization of the support packages for improvement of training quality.
 

The mission was warmly welcomed by the university principal, head of Research management and International relations department, representatives of different departments and students. The mission visited facilities and workshops supported by Vietnamese-German projects to get a picture of the progress made. According to Associate Prof. Dr. Tran Trung – the university principal, the Vietnamese-German projects have brought its valuable benefits to the university; the competences of teachers have been considerably improved, as a result, students are  trained more practice-oriented, with new training methodologies, up-to-date training materials and modern training equipments.

 
The cooperation of TVET institutes and enterprises was also promoted and Hung Yen UTE is one of the best practices in this regards. The mission was taken to an enterprise which is in partnership with the university: Duc Giang joint-stock garment corporation. The company and Hung UTE, through the project-supported initiatives, have had many exchange programmes, in particular, in offering students/trainees the possibility to be trained also in the real world of work. At the company, Mr. Pham Tien Lam - the general director affirmed that “students graduated from Hung Yen UTE are very qualified, they can meet the work requirements as soon as they start to work for the company”./.