The capital registered in these plans amounts to 4.57 billion dollars and most of it (91.23%) is concentrated in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, a conference held by the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam to increase the mobilization of social resources for the development of education said.

At the opening of the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Phuc said the Vietnamese government is encouraging and creating favorable conditions for domestic and foreign investors to improve academic quality at all levels of education.

Van Phuc considered the potential for investment in education in Vietnam to be huge, as the country has a tradition of studying and investing in the construction of educational institutions.

The implementation of quality educational programs in this Southeast Asian nation will not only attract Vietnamese students, but also foreign students, the deputy minister said.

At present, the VNA news agency detailed, Vietnam has university exchange programs with the United Kingdom (101), the United States (59), France (53), Australia (37) and South Korea (27). pgh/arm/mem/mpm