Results of the The design contest for the new Campus of the Vietnamese-German University near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam has been decided.
The contract for the general planning services has been awarded to the winner of the first prize in the design contest, Machado and Silvettti Associates Inc., Boston/MA,USA.
The projects of all five shortlisted firms that have taken part in the competition are published in the “results” section of this website.
The deadline for submission of Expressions of Interest (EOI) for another New Model University Project (The University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam) is March 27, 2014.
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For the country’s rapid and sustainable economic development, the requirement of training high-quality human resources has become the core mission of the whole nation and the education and training sector in particular. To deal with this requirement, the Government of Vietnam has issued many policies and guidelines with long-term vision to develop Vietnam’s Higher Education.
Higher education contributes to economic development. Building a higher education system in Vietnam that is innovative, responsive to the demands of the market and of high quality is essential to the economic growth and development of Vietnam. The Government of Vietnam has requested the World Bank to provide continued support for Vietnam‘s higher education agenda, recognizing the success of past collaboration in the sector. This is all the more critical at a time when Vietnam, having acceded to WTO membership, is looking to develop a skilled population, with a strong knowledge base, that will position the country well for economic expansion and further integration into the global economy.
“The New-Model University Project” is an integral part of the World Bank‘s ongoing support to higher education and is a major priority for the Government of Vietnam in catalyzing further reform. It will not just create a new science and technology university that will produce the type of highly qualified graduates needed in the labor market; it will also explicitly test the reforms currently taking place in higher education and demonstrate lessons and provide guidance to other universities as they develop more autonomy in the areas of governance, financing, and quality. The Vietnamese-German University (VGU) is one out of four universities within “The New-Model University Project”.
