MOSCOW, April 7 Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed the Russian Ministry of Education and Science to work out the issue of creating a Russian university in Vietnam, the office of the Deputy Prime Minister reported.
«The Deputy Prime Minister instructed the Russian Ministry of Education and Science to study the issue of creating a Russian university on the basis of the Vietnamese one to train specialists who will work at the nuclear power plant,» the report says.
It is added that this task will be included in the Plan 2030, which was signed within the framework of the Russian-Vietnamese intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation.
The apparatus noted that today Vietnamese citizens continue their education in Russian universities in nuclear and related specialties at the expense of the federal budget under quotas of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. In total, about a thousand places per year are allocated for applicants from Vietnam according to the quota for studying foreign citizens.
«Work is underway to find employment for graduates. For example, Vietnamese engineers are currently working at the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, which is being built by the Rosatom State Corporation,» the office concluded.
Chernyshenko said earlier that Russia was ready to participate in construction of nuclear power plants in Vietnam, both large and small capacity, at the request of the Vietnamese side.According to him, the adoption of such a decision will allow Vietnam to come close to achieving the goal of climate neutrality.