Vietnam university ties up with US counterpart
The Vietnam National University-HCM City (VNU-HCM City) on June 30 signed an agreement with Los Angeles-based University of California to set up bachelor's and master's courses in bio-medicine and educational science and create research facilities during the coming academic year.
The American university will also train lecturers and researchers and set up a Centre for Fundamental Biophysics and Biochemistry Sciences at the VNU-HCM City.
The latter will be assisted through the Centre for Global Mentoring, a joint entity set up by the UCLA, University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to train young scientists.
An oncology research laboratory will also be set up to research into cancers of the liver, cervix, and stomach.