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Students can start studies in Poland and continue elsewhere in Europe and vice versa.

Poland has appeared to be a modern and dynamic member of the European Union (EU) where teaching and training really count, offering an opportunity to foreign students who seek a country of long and rich tradition of higher education.

Poland has a long and rich tradition of higher education

The Central European country has been familiar to generations of Vietnamese students and it is really attractive for young people aspiring to get a European degree recognized throughout the world.

Mr. Maciej Duszynski, Head of the Political and Economic Section, the Embassy of Poland in Hanoi, has shared with Hanoitimes about a broader approach to Poland’s tertiary education.

As an integral part of the European Higher Education Area, Poland has its own advantages that are favorable for foreign students. Would you please elaborate?

Mr. Maciej Duszynski: The advantages are as follows:

1. Very good quality of education; many Poles are winning international scientific competitions.

2. Low cost of living (among the lowest in the EU) due to Polish zloty, national currency, which has an exchange rate of 4/1 (4 zloty in exchange for EUR1).

3. Good quality of specialized education, such as medical, engineering, arts, music (piano!; homeland of F. Chopin) and sports (coaching) higher education; medical and music education are sought after all around the world, students from the US, Canada, Taiwan, China, Japan and many other countries seek for these majors in Poland.

4. Poland has relatively big Vietnamese diaspora – one of the biggest in Europe; there are about 30,000-50,000 people of Vietnamese descent living in Poland; there are many Vietnamese restaurants and shops where flavors of Vietnam are accessible in Poland. There are also Vietnamese trade centers.

5. Traditionally, many CEOs and leaders of Vietnamese provinces and cities, including former Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, government ministers, studied in Poland; also many Polish Vietnamese young graduates are very successful in Poland as major TV personalities and Polish Youtube stars, fashion designers, well-known actors, successful economists and lawyers in Poland.

How is the recognition of Poland-certified degrees in European countries? Is there any degree transfer system across the Europe that enables foreign students to continue their education elsewhere in the EU?

Mr. Maciej Duszynski: Yes, Poland, as a member of the European Union, takes part also in Bologna system. So you can start your studies in Poland and continue elsewhere in Europe, you can also continue in Poland studies already started in a different EU country. Also, Poland is of course a part of Erasmus and Erasmus+ programs.

Poland has helped train dozens of thousands of Vietnamese students, mostly in the war time and the hard time. Could you please brief the Polish support and the education cooperation between the two countries?

Mr. Maciej Duszynski: As we mentioned before, there was indeed the effort of Poland to help Vietnam in difficult times, historically. So we are traditional friends. There is a Polish saying that translates to: “a friend in need is your friend indeed.” Vietnamese diaspora also tries to be very helpful to other members of Polish society, they form one very well integrated community and one society together with Poles now. The sense of solidarity is omnipresent.

We hope that the great experiences of Vietnamese students and professors studying and doing research in Poland who had gotten their families to join them in Poland, from the last decades, will pave the way for more Vietnamese best talents to choose Poland! We believe Poland can become their first choice and prime destination for higher education and research.

Is there any agreement on education signed between Poland and Vietnam so far?

Mr. Maciej Duszynski: Yes, there was an agreement on education and training between the two countries for 2005-2008. Then, in November 2017, a new agreement was signed between the then Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland and the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam on cooperation in science and higher education.

Moreover, recently, in 2018, there was also an agreement signed by NAWA (National Agency for Academic Exchange) of Poland and Hanoi University (HANU) on providing Polish language instruction at Hanoi University. This agreement was then annexed in July, 2020 for the cause to be prolonged to next academic year, after the success of the initial year. It’s a great success, also of the Embassy of Poland, to reestablish the course after 30 years of its non-existence (the last edition of the course before reestablishing it in 2019, took place back in 1989).

We hope that from there, Polish language would be accessible for students and other interested individuals also at the other leading Vietnamese universities in other main Vietnamese cities.

There are also countless and numerous memorandums of understanding signed by particular Polish universities and their Vietnamese counterparts, some of them aiming even at creating full majors with double degrees.

Poland and Vietnam celebrate the 70th anniversary of the bilateral relations this year. What does education mean in the long-lasting multilateral ties?

Mr. Maciej Duszynski: Education is one of the main pillars and among the most stable yet dynamically growing part of our flourishing and shining bilateral ties. With the recent opening and continuity of Polish language course, existence in Vietnamese studies at the Poznan university, it will be shining even brighter. There is also rich and growing offers of fellowships, scholarships and summer schools in Poland provided to Vietnamese students and researchers by NAWA.

The iconic initiatives such as Virtual Fairs of Polish Higher Education conducted online at the address: https://www.facebook.com/events/920061181819595/ or https://rsgp.webexpo.pl/ (you can search for it also on the Polish Embassy’s website, or Facebook “Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Hanoi” and Twitter account PLinVietnam) on October 20, 2020 call for attention from every student and every candidate. Please check how many scholarships and wonderful educational opportunities Poland has to offer!

Where is the best place to learn Polish in Vietnam?

Mr. Maciej Duszynski: You can learn Polish at Hanoi University in Hanoi. Actually, the deadline for the intake for this year’s program is October 21 and we would like all interested to contact the International Office of Hanoi University at [email protected]

Thank you very much for the interview!

As host of the 2021 National Tourism Year, with the theme “Hoa Lu – Thousand-year-old Capital”, the northern province of Ninh Binh will work to promote itself as an attractive and safe destination for tourists.

Hundreds of thousands of Buddhist monks, nuns and followers across the country attend the festival celebration every year.

Quan The Am ( Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva ) Festival, a special event in the central city of Danang’s Marble Mountains, was recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage on March 25.

The recognition was handed over by Nong Quoc Thanh, the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Department of Cultural Heritage, to authorities of Danang’s People’s Committee.

The Quan The Am ( Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva) Statue procession is the most eagerly-anticipated ritual during the festival. Photo: Danang Museum

Along with K20 historic site, Marble Mountains and other cultural and historical relics in Danang, the Quan The Am Festival would help fostering the city’s tourism development, said chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Trung Chinh.

The festival is held annually on the 19th of the second month of the lunar calendar at Quan The Am Pagoda in Kim Son Mountain – the largest among the Buddhist temples in the Marble Mountains (No 48 Su Van Hanh Street, Hoa Hai Ward, Ngu Hanh Son District).

A wide range of activities are held at the festival including a Buddhist texts praying ritual, a photo exhibition on Indian Buddhism, a visit to the Buddhist cultural museum, an incense offering ceremony to commemorate Princess Huyen Tran (1287-1340), and a traditional boat regatta.

In 2000, the Quan The Am festival was ranked among the 15 biggest festivals nationwide. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhist monks, nuns and followers across the country attend the festival celebration every year.

Quan The Am Pagoda, built in 1957, is the highlight of the Marble Mountains tourist complex, with wonderful natural landscapes featuring ancient pagodas, mysterious caves and picturesque scenery.

The recognition is expected to raise the public awareness of preservation and protection of historical sites and cultural heritages. It also aims to promote the provincial tourism industry from the Covid-19 outbreak.

Xa Tac Temple which is located on the bank of Ka Long River in Mong Cai City’s Ka Long Ward and shares a border with China was recognized as a provincial heritage in 2005. The site is not only a religious tourism place but also a landmark affirming the country’s sovereignty.

Xa Tac Temple was built in the late 13th century and the early of 14th century under the Tran dynasty to worship Xa Tac, the God of Land and Agriculture of Mong Cai in the past.

In November 2020, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism also recognized the temple as a national architectural relic.

Some 8,000 fifth, ninth, and twelfth graders took Mathematics Violympic (Vietnamese version), approximately 2,500 fourth and eighth graders sat for Mathematics Violympic (English version), and over 1,000 learners in grades 9 and 12 took Physics.

To enter the final round, students had to complete nine prior rounds meeting the qualifying scores and criteria set in each examination location.

Students who win the national Violympic competition this year will be awarded certificates of merit and Gold, Silver, or Bronze medals for each subject and grade. The top 20 candidates will receive their rewards in kind, which is worth over VND400 million (US$ 17,350) in total.

The competition’s organization board revealed that the national round is scheduled to be expanded for other grades in the next years.

The 2020-2021 academic year is the thirteenth consecutive year that Violympic has been organized for high school students nationwide proving to be a prestigious online playground. It has been welcomed by teachers, students and parents.

So far, the Violympic System has reached 33.7 million subscribers after 13 years of development. The competition currently has a total of 10 rounds, minimizing pressure on students and teachers. In the competition, six self-training rounds closely adhere to textbooks with interesting formats, combining Mathematics, Physics, Foreign Languages and Information Technology to help students to actively brush up on their pre-existing knowledge and self-assess their own knowledge.

The goal of the competition is to help students in all corners of the country to have access to education 4.0 as well as assist teachers and schools to enhance the information technology application for innovative teaching approaches, improved teaching-learning quality and management quality.

Traffic police nationwide forces will increase their patrols in three routes to ensure traffic order and safety on the national holidays April 30 and May 1

Specifically, traffic police force nationwide will mobilize all officers and arrange patrol forces to control and strictly handle violations of traffic safety with concentration on roads with high-risk of accidents, during hours which accidents often occur and the “accident blackspot ” where road traffic accidents have historically been concentrated. Moreover, police officers will work in full compliance with the Ministry of Public Security’s direction on patrol and handling of violations according to the theme “Driver on the road under influence of drugs violating regulations”.

Police officers will handle violations relating to overloading, oversized vehicles; plus, they will maximally exploit the surveillance camera system to impose punishment on violators.

Over the past time, illegal motorbike race has developed complicatedly. The Traffic Police Department required police in provinces and cities to evaluate and learn lessons from the implementation of the Ministry of Public Security’s plan on preventing and combating illegal racing. Additionally, police officers must well understand the situation, and assume responsibilities of their units. On that basis, more police officers will be assigned their duties with the aim to prevent the gathering of illegal racing, swinging and re-occurrence of security disorder.

Traffic police ensure the traffic safety and safety of railway and inland waterways meanwhile they also actively coordinate with local authorities, police, and the railway and waterway sectors to inspect, control and handle violations which is the cause of railway traffic accidents, waterways.

The Traffic Police Department also required traffic police, police units and localities to grasp the situation, develop plans to mobilize permanent and immediate forces at key intersections during the national holidays and election venues.

Moreover, police officers promptly handle when traffic jams occur in a bid to prevent prolonged traffic congestion in the main roads in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, key highways and national highways including 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 51, Ho Chi Minh road, festival venues, construction sites, bus stations, wharves, and stations, especially during the election. Police officers recommended to absolutely removes parking lots, markets, wedding ceremonies on key and frequently congested routes.

Through patrol, control and coordination with police units, traffic wardens detect and arrest all kinds of criminals comprising robbers; drug traffickers; firecrackers, explosives, illegal weapons smugglers as well as seize goods without invoices. Last but not least, traffic police officers promptly detect the illegal trade of Vietnamese or discover illegal immigration of foreigners into Vietnam on land, railway or waterway.