Year: 2011

Trải nghiệm ở Trung học nội trú: Sự chuẩn bị cho Đại học và cho cả cuộc đời

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Bài viết này được viết bởi Nguyễn Xuân Toàn, một học sinh ở Hà Nội, đã tốt nghiệp trường trung học phổ thông Hà Nội Amsterdam năm 2008 và trường nội trú Phillips Academy Andover năm 2010. Hiện nay cậu đang là sinh viên của trường đại học Amherst. Tôi vẫn thường nói đùa rằng … Continue reading Trải nghiệm ở Trung học nội trú: Sự chuẩn bị cho Đại học và cho cả cuộc đời

The Boarding School Experience: Preparation for College and for Life

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 This guest post was written by Nguyen Xuan Toan, a student from Hanoi who attended Hanoi-Amsterdam High School and graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 2010.  He is currently  a student at Amherst College.  -------------------- I often joke that boarding schools are basically colleges for high school students. In some ways they are. The boarding school experience resembles … Continue reading The Boarding School Experience: Preparation for College and for Life

StudyUSA Community College Fairs: Making Connections

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Fair week is over.  The fall 2011 StudyUSA Community College Fair series started on a Sunday in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and ended on a Saturday in Hanoi with stops and high school visits in between in Nha Trang (first time ever) and Danang.  These US community college-only fairs are unique in Vietnam, a wise choice … Continue reading StudyUSA Community College Fairs: Making Connections

Fall 2011 Update: U.S. Businesses Are Discovering the “V” in CIVETS

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This fall 2011 update is from Vietnomics, a global sourcing consultancy that links US and Vietnamese investors and companies.  Thanks, Jeff!  Summary  The Vietnam opportunity in the 3rd quarter attracted more attention from global investors, who now have a catchy acronym to go with their enthusiasm:  CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South Africa) is replacing … Continue reading Fall 2011 Update: U.S. Businesses Are Discovering the “V” in CIVETS

A Hole in the Dike?

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Much to my chagrin, I noticed that IIE permitted Jose Maria Vargas University, a nationally accredited (NA) school based in Florida, to join its US higher education fairs in Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).  This in spite of the fact that IIE guidelines state that "Only regionally accredited (RA) two-year, four-year and … Continue reading A Hole in the Dike?

Point/Counterpoint

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This is an exchange of comments that appeared in response to a late July article entitled SUNY Bets Big on Agents that appeared in Inside Higher Ed.  The article is about “an ambitious agency-based recruitment strategy, with the goal of increasing its total foreign student enrollment by more than 13,000 over five years. A portion … Continue reading Point/Counterpoint

Caveat Emptor! US Rogue Providers Discover Vietnam

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If you're interested in reading a rather lengthy(6-page)  treatment of this issue in a Vietnamese context, check out this article I wrote for the August 2011 issue of wRAP-Up Newsletter.  As I've mentioned in a number of settings, most recently in this June 2011 essay entitled Letting in the Fresh Air and the Flies: The Mixed … Continue reading Caveat Emptor! US Rogue Providers Discover Vietnam

Hey AIESEC! What’s Up? (A lot!)

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AIESEC, originally an acronym for Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales, is the world's largest student-run organization with a presence in over 107 countries and territories and a membership of over 50,000.  "Focused on providing a platform for youth leadership development, AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to be global citizens, to … Continue reading Hey AIESEC! What’s Up? (A lot!)

Community College Draws Foreign Students by Serving as a Gateway to Universities

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This is the title of a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article that begins with this sentence:  When American community colleges attend student-recruitment fairs abroad, they are often greeted with blank looks. This is true in a lot of countries but not in Vietnam, where many students and parents have recently discovered the benefits of … Continue reading Community College Draws Foreign Students by Serving as a Gateway to Universities