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Helping Academic Dreams Come True in Vietnam: A Little Goes a Long Way
Fact #1: In Vietnam, about one million students finish secondary school (i.e., junior high school) every year but public high schools can only accommodate 80% of that number. Fact #2: An estimated...
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Protected: Resources for Washington State Colleagues – Spring 2014
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Jumping on the Vietnam War Commemoration Bandwagon: The Vain Search for Honor
Nguyen Hong Loi, 24, cares for a child born without eyes in the Agent Orange children’s ward of Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. About 500 of the 60,000 children delivered each year at the...
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Interesting Facts About the Vietnam Education Foundation
This is a recent search engine term that brought some unsuspecting netizen to my blog. It reminded me of a recent conversation with a young Vietnamese who was a Fulbrighter a couple of years ago. He...
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2014 VSN International Conference “What Is A Good University?”
I was recently invited to speak at a conference in Hanoi organized by the Vietnam Scholar Network (VSN), the Vietnam Centre for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) and the University of Education, and...
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Sự thật về các chương trình giáo dục Mỹ tại Việt Nam
This article, entitled “The Truth About American Education Programs in Vietnam” (Một Thế Giới, 23 April 2014), reflects the growing sophistication about US higher education as a service sector export....
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Of Proposed Fulbright Cuts, Reaper Drones & the American Fulbright University...
The Fulbright Program aims to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the chance that nations will learn at last to...
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“Half of Chinese students at elite US colleges don’t want to return”
While this article is based on a survey of a small group of Chinese students at elite US higher education institutions, there are parallels with the situation of Vietnamese students at all types of US...
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Vietnam Youth Speak 2014
The RMIT chapter of AIESEC has launched an online survey called Vietnam Youth Speak 2014. AIESEC in Vietnam was established in 2006. For the past 7 years it has been facilitating youth leadership...
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A Blast from the Past: The Day CNN Business Traveller Came to Town
It was at this table at a popular Hanoi cafe that I had a conversation with Richard Quest, of CNN Business Traveller fame, nine years ago this summer. Quest was in town to tape a show about Vietnam...
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Vietnam Education Dialogue: Higher Education Reforms
On July 31st and August 1st, US Consul General, Rena Bitter, hosted a conference on Vietnamese higher education. The star-studded list of guests included Dr. Ngo Bao Chau, the first Vietnamese to...
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Vietnam: Off The Beaten Track (OTBT) Tour 2014
Courtesy: Princeton University Below is a description of a new tour organized by EducationUSA, US Embassy, Hanoi. Its purpose is to reach out to talented and gifted students in five (5) provinces in...
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2014 Operation Light the End of the Tunnel
Below is an interview with Chuck Searcy, a former Army intelligence analyst who has lived in Vietnam for the last 20 years working – in partnership with Vietnamese colleagues – to ameliorate the...
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Happy Birthday, Capstone Vietnam! Chúc mừng sinh nhật, Capstone Việt Nam!
A special greeting on the occasion of Capstone Vietnam’s 5th Birthday. 16 September 2014 Dear Friends, It has been five years since Capstone Vietnam was born. Five years of hard work, sacrifice, ups...
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The Geography of Foreign Students in U.S. Higher Education: Origins and...
Below is an excerpt from a 10 September 2014 ICEF Monitor article about an excellent Brookings Institution study of international student flows to the U.S. with detailed information and useful...
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The Audacity of Monsanto & the Short Memory of the Vietnam National...
Note: This is obviously NOT a post about education. Given the relative freedom of speech that this blog has afforded me since I left the employ of a quasi-US governmental nonprofit five years ago, I...
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At TPP, Vietnam, developing nations come under US onslaught on affordable...
Below is a repost of an article that originally appeared on 23 October in Thanh Nien News and was picked up by Info.vn. There are basically two sides in this debate: 1) those who support profit over...
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Foreign enrolment in German universities reaches record high
Yes, this is from July 2014 but it’s still interesting and worth sharing. :-) As someone who has spent considerable time in Germany, including as a student, I agree with points made in this ICEF...
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Overseas students can choose to stay abroad: Fatherland Front chair
It’s rare that I will repost an article but I have to make an exception in this case because of the exceptional nature of this statement made by Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan, Chair of the Vietnam Fatherland...
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Emerging and Developing Economies Much More Optimistic than Rich Countries...
Education, Hard Work Considered Keys to Success, but Inequality Still a Challenge As they continue to struggle with the effects of the Great Recession, publics in advanced economies are pessimistic...
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