Dr. Ronaldo Tan, Registrar, joined a delegation of Filipino educators who toured and attended a Vietnam educational exposition from October 28 to 31 in a bid to attract enrolees from that country to consider Philippines for their studies especially in Nursing, Hotel and Restaurant Management and other allied courses.
The group
visited a total of six universities namely University of Economics, Hong Bang
University, Ton Duc Thang University, University of Technology, University of
Medicine and Pharmacy and HCMC National University.
At the Educational Exposition in
Hotel Ho Chi Minh, 100 parents and students from various secondary schools and
colleges signified their interest to pursue their education in the Philippines.
Queries coming from them were mostly concerning tuition fees and the
availability of school dormitories. Most of them come from middle-class
families with some from upper-class ones who are scouting for schools in the
Philippines. The incoming Vietnamese envoy to the Philippines who is due for
reassignment soon led the group of Vietnamese parents who hinted of sending
their children to Philippine schools after graduation from high school.
The Institute for Educational
Technology (ETECH), INCOMEX SAIGON GROUP – Recruitment and Investment Agency,
the Center for Raising the Intellectual Standard of People (CRISOP), and Philippine Airlines (PAL) office in Vietnam promised
to promote the Manila Doctors College. CRIOSOP wants an exclusive arrangement
and promised to send 100 students on the 1st year and more on the following
year. ETECH is interested in MDC’s English and Caregiver programs and promised
to send 50 students. All except PAL raised the idea of forging partnership in
sending students to MDC. Dr. Tan took the opportunity and gave the agencies
draft Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) for approval.
The Registrar sums up the visit
as success as far as opening MDC’s door to Vietnamese students. He prodded the
community to brace up for this and called on the School to prop up its programs
in anticipation of the influx of students from that country.