The Ministry of Education and Training has finished a working trip with Dalat University to discuss human resource training for Vietnam’s first nuclear power plants in Ninh Thuan Province.

Deputy Minister Bui Van Ga appreciated achievements of Dalat University in preparations for training specialists for the nuclear power industry. The university can now hit the ground running as it has a group of qualified lecturers, a sound training program and modern laboratories, Ga said.

The university has met requirements to recruit students for two new majors, nuclear technology and nuclear physics, according to the deputy minister.

The nuclear technology faculty has one professor and eight doctorate holders specializing in nuclear technology. The faculty has sent its other lecturers to countries with advanced nuclear technology for further study.

The faculty also has guest lecturers from the Dalat Nuclear Research Institute.

The university will enroll 30 to 50 students of nuclear technology next school year 2012-2013. Students of the faculty will be provided with incentives such as school fee reduction, accommodation, scholarships and research support.

Nuclear technology graduates are required to have a TOEFL score of more than 500 as well.

Mai Xuan Trung, the university’s vice president, said the nuclear technology faculty would need around VND400 billion in the next few years to buy equipment for teaching, learning and research.

Dalat University is one of the six educational institutions in the nation to be assigned by the Government to train human resources for the country’s first two nuclear power plants in the central coast province of Ninh Thuan.

SGT