Author: Mark A. Ashwill

SEVIS By The Numbers: December 2010 Quarterly Snapshot

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This quarterly report (PDF) is a statistical breakdown of the system’s performance and trends in foreign student representation in U.S. academic and exchange programs.  As of 31 December 2010, SEVIS (Student and Exchange Visitor Information System) contained records for 1,091,805 active nonimmigrant students, exchange visitors, and their dependents.  The total number of records for all … Continue reading SEVIS By The Numbers: December 2010 Quarterly Snapshot

Education in Vietnam

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Below is information about a new book, edited by Jonathan D. London and published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.   Dr. London is an Assistant Professor (Sociology) in the Department of Asian & International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong.  Vietnam is a country on the move. Yet, contemporary Vietnam’s education system … Continue reading Education in Vietnam

More Dong for Your Buck: Rough Road Ahead?

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One of Asia's most inflation-plagued economies, Vietnam, devalued its currency 8.5% Friday to help arrest mounting economic problems.  But analysts say Hanoi's Communist policy makers instead risk triggering a new and potentially uncontrollable round of price rises. This was excerpted from a 14 February Wall Street Journal article.  Back in December 2010, a Bloomberg article, quoting … Continue reading More Dong for Your Buck: Rough Road Ahead?

4th Annual Education Conference: Cementing Cooperation & Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-Vietnam Education Partnerships

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The US Embassy in Vietnam and the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) have officially announced the Fourth Annual Education Conference to be held April 9, 2011 in Hanoi.  The purpose of this conference is to bring together American and Vietnamese universities, colleges, companies and NGOs active in higher education in Vietnam to discuss how to increase … Continue reading 4th Annual Education Conference: Cementing Cooperation & Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-Vietnam Education Partnerships

Vietnam’s Younger Generation & the Future

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Vietnam is a "young" country.  You can see it everywhere you look and in the statistics (median age:  27.4).   It's what economists refer to as a "demographic dividend," which Vietnam is hoping to take advantage of.    I recently spent a couple of mornings and afternoons conducting Skype interviews with young people, high school and … Continue reading Vietnam’s Younger Generation & the Future

If Vietnam were your home instead of The United States you would…

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I recently came upon this site, which was created last year at first “as a way to show the magnitude of the BP Oil Spill. Through a number of conversations with visitors to the site, we realized that we had stumbled onto a very powerful concept. Representing large facts in relation to a person's own home is … Continue reading If Vietnam were your home instead of The United States you would…

What’s Hot

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…in Vietnam’s English language media as it relates to education.  Below is a sampling of articles that have recently appeared on English language newspaper websites here starting with the newest.  Why I quit? (Low salary is not the only thing that urges state employees to quit. If they are just working for money, many excellent … Continue reading What’s Hot

“CSU” Reprise (aka The Other Shoe Just Dropped)

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As I mentioned in my 24.1.11 post where can i buy an accredited overseas phd?, a request by the CSU owner, Zahid Yazdanie, to register California South University as a federal trademark was denied for obvious reasons.  The most obvious is that it is in violation of section 89005.5 of the California Education Code, which provides … Continue reading “CSU” Reprise (aka The Other Shoe Just Dropped)