On September 21st, FPT Software Danang entered into an agreement to provide Japanese training programs and offer job opportunities to IT students at five universities in Danang, including DTU, which has been a pioneer in international collaborations to improve the quality of IT education.
Representatives of FPT and five universities at the signing
To meet its target of employing 10,000 specialists and attaining an annual revenue of $300 million by 2020, FPT Software needs to hire annually between 800 and 2,000 technical staff with foreign language ability between now and then. The agreement will provide Information Technology and other students to reach at least an N3 level in Japanese. They will assist the five universities to integrate Japanese into their curricula to provide the necessary skills to satisfy their corporate job requirements and offer qualified graduates careers at FPT Software.
According to the agreement, FPT Software will also provide internships to IT students studying Japanese and provide scholarships to the two best students in each Japanese class. They will reimburse 15 million VND to IT students who can teach themselves Japanese, obtain an N3 Japanese language certificate and are eligible to start work for FPT Software on graduation. IT graduates proficient in Japanese will receive a bonus of one to four million VND per month.
DTU students win many IT competitions
From its inception, DTU has concentrated on developing IT education. In 2007, DTU signed an agreement with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), one of the top four American universities in Information Technology, to share courses in Software Engineering, Information Systems and Network Security. Students are able to learn about all the latest IT techniques and developments from lecturers of well-known American universities and then receive international Certificates of Completion, conferred by CMU. These partnerships have already improved the standard of IT education at DTU, resulting in several major accomplishments. These include a first prize at the 2008 Informatics Olympiad, a Distinguished Award for Outstanding Female IT Students in 2012, a first and a second prize in the 2014-2015 Computerized Firework Displays competition, held by the Danang Department of Information and Communications, a first prize in the Hackathon App Studio contest, and first and third prizes in Hackathon 2015. DTU students have also won prizes in National Informatics Olympiad competitions.
(Media Center)