Vietnam will provide 120 scholarships in the areas of agriculture, healthcare, and information technology to Cambodia each year from now to 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said.

Deputy PM Nhan, who is also Minister of Education and Training, proposed the two sides regularly organise workshops between education and training services of border provinces in order to share experiences and provide mutual assistance.

During his talks with Cambodian Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Im Sethi in Phnom Penh on Jan. 22, the two sides agreed to enhance comprehensive cooperation in education for the 2010-2020 period and they were unanimous in developing their annual plan and promoting an exchange of information, helping better the management of students.

The two sides discussed the Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam cooperation framework, in which Vietnam continues providing 20 scholarships for Cambodian personnel and students to study in Vietnam under tertiary, postgraduate and short-term training programmes, commencing from the 2009-2010 academic year.

Deputy PM Nhan took this opportunity to announce that Vietnam will build a senior secondary school as a token of the Vietnam-Cambodia friendship for the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh .

Minister Im Sethi thanked the Vietnamese Government and people for their assistance in education and training, especially in the construction of boarding schools in Cambodia’s north-eastern provinces.

About 100 Cambodian students travel to Vietnam to study at the tertiary and postgraduate levels each year. In the 2009-2010 academic year, the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training received 116 Cambodian students.

During his two-day working visit to Cambodia, ending on Jan. 22, Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan also met Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, and made a tour of the Norodom and Sisovat High Schools and the Royal University in Phnom Penh./.