On June 15th, DTU signed an agreement with the Kinki branch of the Japanese National Council for the Elderly and Blind. Mr. Yasutsune Jo, Director of the Assist-Kikaku Company, Mr. Tokiwa Shohan, Director of the Japanese National Committee for the Welfare of the Elderly, Tsubosakadera Shutokukai Social Security Association, Mr. Nakano Toshikazu, Chairperson of the Murokai Social Security Association, Mr. Shoji Makoto, standing member of the Kayagakikai Social Security Association, Associate Professor Nguyen Ngoc Minh, DTU Vice-Provost, Dr. Nguyen Huynh Ngoc, Dean of the DTU Nursing Faculty, lecturers and students of Nursing attended.
The signing
Under the agreement, the Kinki branch of the Japanese National Council for the Elderly and Blind will offer internships for DTU students and graduates at their Kinki branch to improve their knowledge and Japanese language.
Japanese delegates and DTU lecturers and students
Associate Professor Nguyen Ngoc Minh said: “For the past twenty-three years, DTU has proved its position as the first and largest private university in Central Vietnam and a leader in the education of highly-qualified nurses. To achieve this, DTU has expanded is international relationships so that DTU students will be able to study and work in developed countries, such as Japan, where they will be taught the necessary skills to care for the elderly and blind there.”
On March 17th, the Assist-Kikaku Company invited five students and three lecturers from the DTU Nursing Faculty to work at nursing care-centers in Japan for six weeks this summer. Each trainee will team-up with a student from the Japanese language faculty at the Danang College of Foreign Languages. While they are in Japan they will conduct a research project to compare Alzheimer’s disease in Japan with Vietnam in order to develop a DTU Care-Center for the Elderly.
(Media Center)