There were 22 MBA Vietnamese graduates and eight BA Vietnamese graduates in these first classes receiving the degrees of the University of Bolton. The degrees are recognized by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony, Deborah Clarke, British consul general in HCMC, said there would be plenty of opportunities for Vietnamese graduates as Vietnam’s economic success and integration into the global economy is fuelling demand for well-educated managers who are able to operate in a global market-place.

She added education is one of the five key pillars of the UK’s relationship with Vietnam and that the collaborative partnership between the two universities will help to create a critical mass of skilled professionals with an international outlook in Vietnam as well as further strengthen educational links between the UK and Vietnam and promote understanding between the two countries.

Working in partnership with HCMC University of Banking, the University of Bolton has delivered the programs in HCMC since 2006. The programs include Bachelor of Accounting, Bachelor of Business Administration, and transfer program for Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration.

An enrolment seminar for these programs will be held at 8:30 a.m. on July 19 at Kim Do Hotel, 133 Nguyen Hue Boulevard, District 1, HCMC. For details, contact the Center for International Cooperation of the HCMC University of Banking (2nd floor, 39 Ham Nghi Boulevard, District 1, tel: (08) 821 4660, ext: 101).

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EDUCATION is fundamental for the growth of industry and trade in any country. The reason behind the economic success of industrial giants like the USA, Japan, Germany and other emerging economies has been the right kind of education. This has been possible only through strong industry-academia ties. India faces a tough challenge in providing the right kind of education to a very large number of students in order to prepare them for shouldering responsibilities in the economic sector, which is poised for a double digit growth by the turn of the century.

India today has the dubious distinction of having the largest number of educated people who are unemployed for the simple reason that they are unemployable. In a couple of years India will have more than half of its population illiterate and a big chunk of so-called educated people unemployed.

This is an extremely poor reflection on our education system. Every year the government spends a huge amount of money on education. In spite of this, industry especially segments like software, telecom, microelectronics and several other high-tech areas, face a tremendous shortage of skilled manpower.

The education system in our country needs to be driven by the requirements of industry and trade. This would reduce the incidence of producing graduates and postgraduates who are unemployable as far as specialised jobs in the industrial sector are concerned. In the post-liberalisation era, India’s premier technology and management institutes have taken the lead in developing strong interfaces with leading local companies and multinationals.

Whereas IIT (Kanpur) has tied up with Motorola, IIT (Bombay) has joined hands with Intel Corporation of the USA. Intel has launched ‘Vidya’ to create awareness amongst schoolchildren regarding benefits of multimedia and Internet as tools of learning. The Indian Institute of Management, (Ahmedabad) in its efforts directed towards training practising managers, has so far conducted over 700 management development programmes and over 20 long-duration management education programmes. Even though regional management and technology institutes have taken initiatives to work closely with industry, much needs to be done in getting the desired results. In fact, IITs and IIMs can be good models for regional institutes to adopt.

Over the past 10 years or so, corporate managers in India have realised that human resource is the most vital input for long-term success. Technology can be acquired, money raised, machinery bought at best prices but there is no way one can trade for a quality manpower. Right people have to be inducted, trained and retained through well-planned efforts.

At the World Family Summit in China last month, the Federal Council Population Welfare Ministers had admired how the Chinese government had the population and improve control of the country socio-economic indicators. He also said that reports of Pakistan and other countries namely China’s success experience.

Indeed, China can not be achieved, the nature of economic success, it had it not its strict one child family planning policy adopted since the 1970’s.

This policy has enabled the country to reduce the birth rate below replacement level, in order to effectively control the excessive population growth and therefore increase in the per capita national income.

It is quite another, though each country would adopt China wished draconian family planning policy, until there is only a short time, insisted on tough measures to restrict family size to a child. Tiny Singapore is another country which has successfully controlled population growth in the years 1970 and 1980 by a child of two solid family planning policies.

In Pakistan, the well-being of the population is one of the oldest in the world, family planning, the first activity was amended by the private sector in the first half of 1950 and in the first half of 1960 The First Family planning programme in the public sector This sector has been with the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

After five successive years, had made plans allocated to various development programmes well-being of the population. But as the well-being of ministry itself acknowledges, on its official website, the programme of well-being of the people of Pakistan did not have the kind of progress compared to other countries such as Bangladesh and Indonesia.

Indeed, population growth, which is 2.45 per cent in 1961, reached a more than three percent after the sprint in the East and Pakistan (3.66 per cent in 1972 , 3.05 percent in 1981 and 3.1 Percent in 1991). Thus, Pakistan ranking of the world’s population has increased from 14 to 1950 with 33 million people, 6 (and fourth in Asia), with 145.5 million people in 2002.

Although the population growth stands at 2.2 per cent, which, according to the official website, it is still considerably high compared to the average of 0.9 per cent for developed countries and 1.7 per cent for less developed countries.

According to one estimate, Pakistan population double over the next 32 years under the current growth rate of 2.2 percent! The social and economic effects of this growth were largely uncontrolled quite obvious.

On the one hand, there is a lack of good things, like education and health centres, housing, food, shelter, arable land and potable water, on the other hand, there has been significant increase bad things like unemployment, the country - fragmentation, overcrowding, katchi abadis, poverty, crime and environmental problems.