On November 13, 2009, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh - President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities received a delegation from Seoul National University led by Prof. Kang Myungkoo - Head of the Faculty of Liberal Education. During the meeting, Prof. Kang invited representatives of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities to attend a seminar within the framework of the BESETOHA forum which will take place on December 4-5, 2009 in Seoul (Korea).
On November 13, 2009, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh - President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities received a delegation from Seoul National University led by Prof. Kang Myungkoo - Head of the Faculty of Liberal Education. During the meeting, Prof. Kang invited representatives of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities to attend a seminar within the framework of the BESETOHA forum which will take place on December 4-5, 2009 in Seoul (Korea).
The main theme of the conference is to discuss the teaching of basic sciences, also known as General Education Initiatives. The conference is expected to focus on three contents: Current issues of general education: the relationship between general education programs and the study of majors; Establishing the BESETOHA general education network: BESETOHA's cooperation in developing and proposing common courses in general education; Short-term and long-term cooperation plans for BESETOHA's cooperation in general education activities.
Prof. Nguyen Van Khanh accepted the invitation and said that the University of Social Sciences and Humanities may have 02 representatives attending BESETOHA.
Next, the two sides discussed the content of cooperation that can be implemented based on the cooperation document signed between VNU and Seoul National University since 2004. Some planned activities include exchanging electronic lectures, exchanging students and experts...
Since 2004, the two universities have had initial cooperation activities when they jointly published 3 textbooks for Vietnamese students: Advanced Korean Language Textbook, Korean History Textbook and Modern Korean Society.
BESETOHA is a forum for four major universities in East Asia - including Peking University (China), Seoul National University (Korea), University of Tokyo (Japan) and Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Vietnam) - to meet to discuss current issues and directions in higher education, educational concepts and educational culture. BESETOHA is an acronym of the first two letters of the English names of the four member universities of the forum (Bejing, Seoul, Tokyo and Hanoi).
The East Asian Four Key Universities Forum was initiated by the University of Tokyo. In 1999, the University of Tokyo organized a scientific conference with the participation of a number of experts from four universities in the capitals of four East Asian countries, including Peking University (China), Seoul National University (Korea), Tokyo University (Japan) and Hanoi National University (Vietnam) to discuss the issue of equipping students with basic knowledge. Initially, it was only some academic content inspired by the idea of cultural similarities between East Asian countries, but during the discussion, the scholars came to an important realization that the four universities should maintain regular meetings and exchanges not only of experts but also of managers. Since this conference, a close relationship between the four universities has been formed. Accordingly, the conference will be held annually in turn at universities in the form of a Forum of four university directors combined with specialized scientific seminars.
From 1999 to 2008, the East Asia Four Key Universities Presidents Forum held 10 conferences.
(According to www.coe.edu.vn)
Author:Thanh Ha
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