The programme is part of a three-yearcooperative programme between Vietnam 's Ministry of Education andTraining and the Singapore Ministry of Education aimed at improving thequality of high-school principals.
The programme aims todevelop management capacity among high-school principals by helping themrenew their school management methodology in an ever-changingeducational environment.
The educational managers come from departments of Education and Training or are principals of high schools.
They took part in a seven-day course in Singapore after previouslyjoining a ten-day course at the National Institute of EducationManagement in Hanoi .
Returning from Singapore , themanagers will take responsibility to retrain and improve educationmanagement skills of about 14,000 high-school principals in VietNam .
"Education management is expected to improve followingthe Singaporean model. Supervisory teams will be set up in each highschool, helping both teachers and students improve teaching andlearning," said Nguyen Thi Tien, director of Human Resource Divisionfrom Hai Duong province's Education and Training Department.
Students would be encouraged to develop their creativity by practisingwhat they learnt rather than just absorbing theory and would have achance to meet scientists and researchers to absorb and exchangeexperiences, said Tien who returned from Singapore in June afterfinishing the first course of this year.
"I expect to apply the lessons I learnt in Singapore to retrain other officials and local principals."
Under the three-year programme worth 2 million SGD (1.4 million USD)supported by the Singapore-based Temasek Foundation, 480 lecturersreceived training in 2008 and about 13,500 high-school principals weretrained in education management skills in 2009./.