Education Abroad and Foreign Training of Students and Specialists as an Effective Incentive of Increasing the Level of Human Capital Development in the Forestry of Vietnam

Abstract

The article examines a number of current phenomena characteristic of the processes of human capital development in the framework of international education and internships. In particular, an analysis was made of the distribution of the number of people leaving for study in host countries for students from such Asian-Pacific countries as Vietnam and China; motives and incentives are grouped into two large groups that influence the decision of a particular student's parents to send them to foreign studies; analyzed the modern form of combining higher education with internships in well-known and attractive for students from abroad companies of the “host” country, which is an effective functional and image reception in the arsenal of marketing tools of universities that are highly competitive in the global higher education market for solvent customers. The key elements of improving the quality of “human capital” during the training of Vietnamese students in universities of St. Petersburg are identified.The study concluded that Russian universities, in particular those connected with the training of specialists for the forestry complex, should more actively promote their educational services in Vietnam, pointing to the presence of modern technological and educational base, actual use of knowledge and technologies that are used in leading companies in the forest industry of Canada, Scandinavia, USA, Russia.