According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s annual Education at a Glance report,there were 4.12 million students enrolled in a higher education program outside of their country of citizenship in 2010. (The information was collected from 34 OECD member countries, in addition to other non-member G-20 countries: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi … Continue reading More Studying Overseas; US Continues to Lose International Student Market Share
Author: Mark A. Ashwill
Determining Financial Need: Lessons from Vietnam (Part II)
Here's the follow-up post in which I describe how to screen those who actually deserve the merit- and need-based scholarships awarded by many US colleges and universities. By way of introduction, back in the mid-1990s, a book entitled Material World was published by Sierra Club Books in honor of the United Nations-sponsored International Year of the Family … Continue reading Determining Financial Need: Lessons from Vietnam (Part II)
Determining Financial Need: Lessons from Vietnam
Many US colleges and universities, especially those with healthy endowments (i.e., highly selective liberal arts colleges but also some visionary state universities that are able to offer scholarships to international students, including by charging in-state tuition), award millions of dollars worth of merit- and need-based scholarships every year to international students. They do this for the … Continue reading Determining Financial Need: Lessons from Vietnam
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Lane Community College Joins Capstone’s HCMC International Academic Center
Lane Community College (LCC) , a comprehensive community college located in Eugene, Oregon, is the first US community college to join Capstone Vietnam’s International Academic Center (IAC) in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). The IAC is a shared facility that serves as a home base from which U.S. and other foreign institutions of higher education can promote their … Continue reading Lane Community College Joins Capstone’s HCMC International Academic Center
StudyUSA Fall Fairs in Vietnam: Video Promos
As we welcome autumn back to Hanoi - the temperature dipped to 22C/71.6F last night - fair season is upon us. Below are two promotional videos for the upcoming StudyUSA Higher Education Fairs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and the StudyUSA Community College Fairs in Haiphong, Hanoi, Danang and HCMC. (Both fair series are organized by Capstone Vietnam, … Continue reading StudyUSA Fall Fairs in Vietnam: Video Promos
Welcome to My Neighborhood (aka Letting in the Fresh Air and the Flies)
In my bustling neighborhood in the Cau Giay District of Hanoi, I can see over a billion dollars of local investment and foreign direct investment (FDI) from my front door, so to speak, where new condos, office buildings, and hotels are sprouting up like mushrooms. A field that just a few years ago was a hot spot for … Continue reading Welcome to My Neighborhood (aka Letting in the Fresh Air and the Flies)
Corruption in Education: The Scourge of Forged Documents
Dear US Admission Colleagues, As you may know, corruption in its many forms, both large and small, permeates Vietnamese society, including (use your imagination) and education. Vietnam ranks 112/183, according to the 2011 Transparency International Corruptions Perceptions Index (CPI). If you're Vietnamese or an expat who has lived in Vietnam for a long time, you know what I'm talking … Continue reading Corruption in Education: The Scourge of Forged Documents
Mapping international student segments with recruitment channels
Reposted from DrEducation, a blog by Dr. Rahul Choudaha, Director of Research and Advisory Services at World Education Services (WES), New York—a non-profit with more than 35 years of experience in international education and research. While Vietnam was not included in this study (i.e., the main focus was on China and India), it does have relevance for Vietnam. I'll discuss … Continue reading Mapping international student segments with recruitment channels
“50 percent of Vietnamese teachers regret their career decision”
This is one of the highlights of a survey conducted by the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences (VIES), a damning indictment of the working conditions of Vietnamese teachers. The survey of 526 teachers from 27 schools in five provinces asked primary, secondary (junior high) and high school teachers this question: Would you still choose to work as a teacher, if you could make … Continue reading “50 percent of Vietnamese teachers regret their career decision”
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