International cooperation in vocational education and skill development

(BGO) – On December 9, Bac Giang Vietnam – Korean Vocational College of Technology (VK Tech) inked cooperative agreement on vocational education and skill development in 2023 – 2027 period with Australian College of Tourism and Information Technology (ACTIT) and Ho Chi Minh city based Festo Company Limited (Festo).

The parties finalized to implement various activities to support officials, lecturers to update advanced technologoes, train and develop young talented labours, create chance for students to study in international environment with good and sustainable job opportunities, focusing on four fields of mechatronics, industrial electricity, industrial electronic, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering.

Representative of Bac Giang Vietnam – Korean Vocational College of Technology and Festo Company Limited ink the cooperative agreement.

VK Tech is one of prominent facilities in vocational training which plays a key role in training human resource for Bac Giang province and adjacent localities. With education scale of over 5,000 students, VK Tech is highly appreciated among the businesses for the training quality and qualification of graduated labours.

Thanks to the training advantage, VK Tech cooperated to ink agreement with ACTIT and Festo to supply stable qualified human resource.

Festo belongs to Festo AG & Co.KG which was founded in 2008 in Germany and now operates in 61 countries nationwide with 17,600 labours. It is one of world top leading group in pneumatic automation and electronic automation.

Under the cooperative agreement, VK Tech cooperates with ACTIT to connect international vocational training programmes in term of technology to facilitate students to enroll short and long term courses in Australia.

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