Ireland pushes education ties with Vietnam in bid to court student market [Independent.ie]
- Published: 28 November 2011
IRELAND and Vietnam today launched a new co-operation agreement aimed at increasing the number of Vietnamese students taking third-level courses in Ireland.
Speaking in Vietnamese capital, Minister of State for Trade And Development Jan O'Sullivan said: “Ireland sees our education linkages as central to the future of bilateral economic relations with Vietnam.”
Currently 40 Vietnamese are enrolled in Ireland's universities, with 13 of those funded by Irish Government scholarships.
To compare, 6,000 Vietnamese are studying in the UK, and elsewhere, tapping the Asian student market has created a multi-billion dollar industry within Australia's third-level education system.
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