To celebrate the 5th anniversary of establishment of the Strategic Partnership between Vietnam and the UK, the Embassy of Vietnam in the UK is organising Vietnam Discovery Week from 7-11 September 2015 with presence of senior Vietnam leaders. On this occasion, the Embassy of Vietnam is working with the Ministry of Education and Training, the British Council and Universities UK to organise Vietnam – UK Education forum in the UK. The forum aims at:

- Establishing close, effective and sustainable bilateral education collaboration between Vietnam and the UK through joint working of MoET, the British Council and Universities UK;

- Creating a venue for exchange and sharing best practices in successful bilateral collaboration which set direction for future collaboration to focus on priorities of Vietnam education reform agenda;

- Sharing the forum’s discussion results to support MoET and participating Vietnamese institutions in the development of international plan/policy/direction/strategy to realise the international collaboration and integration objectives in education;

- Establishing Vietnam – UK network of HEIs to build institutional partnership and share experience on:

• Governance and development of internationalising higher education
• Improving research capacity and collaboration (science and innovation)
• Enhancing training collaboration
• Academic and student exchange

Registration to attend the event can be made at http://vietnamdiscovery.co.uk/vietnameducationforum  before 21 August 2015.