There’s $250m for teaching, research, infrastructure and partnerships

RMIT set up in Vietnam 20 years back and claims to be the first foreign owned university in-country, now teaching 12 000 students at Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and a language centre in Da Nang.

The first commitment of the new fund is an industry and innovation research hub in Hanoi, which will also offer “short-form education solutions and workforce training.”

Prime Minister Albanese opened the Hanoi hub, Saturday, calling it “a vote of confidence in Vietnam’s future. And in the strength and the potential we see in joining forces on education.”

Or, as RMIT’s PVC for Vietnam Claire Macken put in in CMM HERE, “the higher education sector in Vietnam is one in which there is an optimistic and positive attitude to the role education can play to change and improve self, position, society, and the economy. As higher education providers in Vietnam and the region, it is our responsibility to deliver.”

Makes a change from the industry obsession  with China and India