UEB's students will have the opportunity to study in Canada with Government scholarship
24/11/2019 22:16

On November 22nd 2019, VNU University of Economics and Business signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Fanshawe College, Canada. Accordingly, UEB students will have the opportunity to receive Canadian Government scholarships.


Attending the signing ceremony, from Fanshawe College, there were Mr. Peter J. Devlin - President; Ms. Mary Pierce - Dean of Faculty of Business Administration; Mr. Larry Weir - Associate Dean of the Norton Wolf School of Aviation Technology; Ms. Saurabh Malhotra - Manager, International Recruitment and Market Development; Mr. Jay Park - Market Leader of Korea, Japan, ASEAN region; Ms. Inna - International Education Advisor.

From UEB, there were Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Truc Le - Rector, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Anh Thu - Vice Rector, Dr. Nguyen Cam Nhung - Head of Office of Research and Partnership Development.

 

Overview of the MOU signing ceremony

Earlier, on October 17, representative of Fanshawe College - Mr. Jay Park visited and discussed about the opportunities for cooperation between the two sides with Dr. Nguyen Cam Nhung, Head of Office of Research and Partnership Development. Information about the university as well as terms and conditions of the MOU were introduced and discussed. Specifically, Fanshawe College wanted to attract Vietnamese students by organizing student exchange activities. Accordingly, the Canadian government will provide scholarships for Vietnamese students to exchange for 1-2 semesters in Fanshawe, Canada.

The two sides agreed on an MOU signing in November when the delegation including the President of Fanshawe came to visit. On November 22nd, the signing ceremony was held at VNU University of Economics and Business in the presence of the two top leaders of the two universities.

Speaking at the ceremony, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Truc Le said: UEB is promoting education internationalization. Up to now, UEB has signed with 23 prestigious universities in the world with the hope to create lots of opportunities for UEB students to study abroad and attract foreign students to UEB to study. Fanshawe College is ranked among top university in Canada, so UEB is delighted that the two universities have come to an agreement in the MOU signing ceremony today. The first group of UEB students coming to Canada to study will turn what the two sides signed today into reality and strengthen the friendship and cooperation between the two schools.

 

Rector of UEB Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Truc Le speaking at the ceremony

 

Mr. Peter J. Devlin - President of Fanshawe College speaking at the signing ceremony

After the signing ceremony, there was a talk between representatives and students, sharing information about the school, facilities, institutions, and learning environment in Canada.

 

The signing ceremony also had the participation of a large number of UEB's students interested in studying abroad

Fanshawe College:

Fanshawe College is one of Ontario's largest colleges, having just celebrated its 50th anniversary of establishment and development in 2017, so far contributing more than 184,000 highly qualified human resources to the world in many academic array. A total of 21,000 full-time students, including 6,800 international students from over 100 different countries. Fanshawe is ranked 1 among Ontario colleges in particular and 2nd among 182 universities in the world for in terms of quality of learning environment *.

Variety of majors

Fanshawe offers a variety of optimal study options for students with over 200 majors from college, advanced college, undergraduate to graduate education, in addition to more than 60 associate programs for students wishing to study and work at the same time.

Fanshawe College has more than 200 diverse study programs:

  • Vocational training (1 year)
  • College and Advanced College programs (2 or 3 years)
  • Postgraduate qualifications (study for 1 or 2 years)
  • Honours bachelor programs (4-year study) *

* Fanshawe have 8 Honours Bachelor programs in the fields of: Business (Accounting, Digital Marketing, Human Resource Management, Management), Applied Technology - Biotechnology, Preschool Education Management, Environmental Design and Planning, Interior Design.

Career path to success:

  • Applied science and technology
  • Construction engineering
  • Business
  • Contemporary communication
  • Design
  • Health science and nursing
  • People service
  • Linguistics and General Education
  • Information Technology
  • Public safety
  • Travel and hotel
  • Transportation technology

Transfer programs:

In addition, Fanshawe also has transfer and exchange programs with universities across Canada and the world, whereby Fanshawe's credits can be transferred to many different schools and institutions to give students more options for learning. Find out more about the programs here: transferagreements.fanshawec.ca

In economics, the school has a wide range of majors and courses for students to choose from 2-year colleges, 3-year advanced colleges, 4-year colleges and 1 or 2-year graduate programs.

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