EU-funded project enhances Vietnam's students’ access to labour market
A workshop was recently held in Bologna, the capital city of the Emilia Romagna region in northern Italy, to increase opportunities for Vietnamese students to get access to the labour market.
The project aims to connect Vietnamese students with foreign and domestic enterprises, thus helping them to find jobs in Vietnam and Europe while improving tertiary training programmes.
Participants discussed measures to help Vietnamese graduates better meet the requirements of domestic and foreign recruiters.
Pham Ngoc Thach from HANU pointed to the shortages of skills among Vietnamese graduates, saying that they have knowledge, yet fail to satisfy the expectations of employers.
Narcis Bosch from the Chamber of Commerce in Catalonia, Spain, underlined the need for educational institutions to ensure their training programmes are more relevant to the labour market.
Meanwhile, Silvia Galeazzi, a project manager highlighted huge room for educational cooperation and student exchanges between Vietnam and Italy.
In 2016, the Italian Foreign Ministry offered numerous scholarships for Vietnamese students to study in the country, she said.