{"id":1066,"date":"2024-01-25T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:22:14","slug":"press-release-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/press-release-11\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in Technical and Vocational Education and Training, with particular focus on Wood Engineering Technology between the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB); School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; and Centre for Sustainable Development and Cooperation (CDC), Switzerland, was signed on 24 January 2024 in Biel, Switzerland.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The MoU was signed by Kutshab Tenzin R Wangchuk, Ambassador of Bhutan to Switzerland on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Skills Development, RGoB, Professor Peter Staub, Director AHB &#8211; School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering, Bern University of Applied Sciences and Professor Markus Sch\u00e4r, Director, Centre for Sustainable Development and Cooperation (CDC).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Under the MoU, the Bern University of Applied Sciences, and CDC will support MoESD to design, develop and provide relevant and high quality skills education and training through systems development, technology transfer and staff capacity building.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The institute of interest under the MoU will be the Chumey Technical Training Institute where a learning factory will also be established.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Biel, Switzerland<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">24 January 2024<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC04396-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC04396-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC04396-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC04396-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC04396-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC04396-1-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4249-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4249-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4249-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4249-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4249-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4249-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in Technical and Vocational Education and Training, with particular focus on Wood Engineering Technology between the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB); School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; and Centre for Sustainable Development and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}