Da Nang-based Dong A University has joined the Asia Professional Education Network (APEN), which promotes education links and a project-based learning (PBL) educational system among universities in Asia.

Students from Da Nang’s Dong A University receive scholarships during a ceremony. The university has joined the Asia Professional Education Network (APEN), which promotes education links and project-based learning (PBL) educational systems among universities in Asia. — VNS Photo Phuong Chi

The Vice Rector of the university, Luong Minh Sam, said it’s the first university in Central Viet Nam and the second one in Virt Nam after the Ha Noi National University’s University of Engineering and Technology to become an official member of APEN.

Sam said participation in APEN will help the school enhance collaboration and exchange educational experience with universities from 15 countries including China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos.

APEN will also help the college approach vocational practice-based educational research and business start-up and academy co-operation programmes.

Dong A is the only private educational establishment in Central Viet Nam providing human resources for labour markets in Japan, Singapore and Germany including automobile engineering, information technology (IT), electronics, nursing and tourism.

Last year, firms from Singapore, Germany and Japan agreed to employ 3,000 graduates from the university to work in the hospitality, nursing, and construction industries from 2020.

The Kakura Tokyo company, an employment firm in Japan, agreed to recruit graduates from the university to work at Toyota’s electric car and automation factories in Japan.

More than 100 graduates from the college have been working in nursing centres and hospitality in Japan since 2016.

Last year, the central city in co-operation with USAID launched the Maker Innovation Space at the Da Nang University as a component of the Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology Alliance.

(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)