The World Bank's Country Director for Vietnam visited Vietnam National University of Agriculture.
Updated on 07:43, Wednesday, 26/08/2015 (GMT+7)
On 19 August, 2015, Assoc. Prof. Dr Nguyen Thi Lan, Vice President of Vietnam National University of Agriculture warmly welcomed Ms. Victoria Kwakwa, the World Bank's Country Director for Vietnam on her first official visit to the university.At the reception, Assoc. Prof. Dr Nguyen Thi Lan expressed her delight at meeting Director Victoria Kwakwa and appreciated the WB’s support to Vietnam and her great contribution to the country’s poverty reduction and renovation cause over the past time. Assoc. Prof. Dr Lan took this opportunity to present an overview of VNUA and its development strategy from 2015 to 2020.Ms. Victoria Kwakwa highly valued the role of the university in the development of agriculture in Vietnam and emphasized that VNUA has not only provided human resources but also produced remarkable scientific results for agriculture and rural development of Vietnam. Its reliable findings and policy recommendations have been utilized as fundamentals for decisions and policies of the MARD and the Government. She also expressed sincerely her opinions about higher education reform in Vietnam today and expected to more appropriate policies to exploit effectively abundant source of knowledge especially in the agricultural sector of Vietnam .
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Ms. Victoria Kwakwa worked with VNUA’s leaders
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During this visit, Ms. Victoria Kwakwa had a special talk with young teachers, students of VNUA about challenges and opportunities in the modernization of agriculture and rural development in Vietnam. Participating staff and students their concerns and asked her to share about her experiences that might help Vietnam in general and VNUA in particular to carry out development programs in agriculture, forestry and fisheries towards hi-tech application, added value improvement of agro products and activities of the World Bank that assist Vietnam in process of agricultural restructuring and new rural development. Ms. Victoria Kwakwa highly appreciated their concerns and emphasized roles of government, the policy makers as well as the necessity of training, and retraining labors. She showed her high expectation that faculty and students of VNUA will be those who actively make renovation in agriculture of Vietnam.
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Talking with young staff and students
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She also said that the World Bank continues to support Vietnam for its efforts to thrive national economics, especially the development of agriculture and education.
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Goup photo with VNUA’s leaders, staff and students
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