Emerging Markets for International Student Recruitment: Thinking Beyond China and India

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Thanks to Rahul Choudaha for permission to repost this insightful commentary...  With more than 260,000 students from China and India enrolled in the US, many American institutions are over-reliant on these two markets for meeting their international student recruitment goals. With the budget cuts, self-financed students are becoming increasingly important and Chinese undergraduate students are … Continue reading Emerging Markets for International Student Recruitment: Thinking Beyond China and India

Dancing in the Park

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For as long as cities have existed, people have needed spaces where communities can gather and individuals can meet, find diversions, and conduct business.  In various times and places, public markets, city parks, wide sidewalks, village and city squares, malls around national monuments, and other organized and unorganized public spaces have filled these roles.  In … Continue reading Dancing in the Park

“Students prefer jobs in foreign firms: poll”

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Fifty-five percent of students wish to work for foreign-invested companies, making these institutions the top choice of working environment for graduates, according to an annual survey conducted by human resource consulting firm Nhan Viet Management Group. The one question that this article did not address is WHY?  Below are some comments from Vietnamese university students … Continue reading “Students prefer jobs in foreign firms: poll”

Columbia Southern University Strikes It Rich in Vietnam

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Columbia Southern University (CSU), a nationally accredited (NA), for-profit online university based in Orange, Alabama, USA, is probably the most profitable US institution of higher education in Vietnam.  CSU has 28,000 students in 22 countries and territories around the world with significant concentrations in Vietnam, China and Hong Kong.  As its website notes, it “offers 23 … Continue reading Columbia Southern University Strikes It Rich in Vietnam

Is Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery?

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The Global Institute of Strategic Management (GISM), which has close ties to Akamai University, a Hawaii-based school that appears on my list of unaccredited US institutions, has a logo that bears a striking resemblance to the Great Seal of a certain US federal executive department charged with implementing that country's foreign policy.  Compare the above logo with that on the US … Continue reading Is Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery?

AmCham Scholars Program

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I spent an afternoon last week interviewing candidates for the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam - Hanoi Chapter (AmCham Hanoi) Scholarship Program.  My fellow panelists and I were charged with evaluating their interpersonal skills, achievement orientation, analytical skills and problem-solving skills through a series of questions.  In addition, the students had to respond to a pre-assigned topic about … Continue reading AmCham Scholars Program

Study Abroad Opportunities in Vietnam for US Students

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By Elaine Hirsch, Guest Blogger Vietnam offers a multitude of experiences for U.S. students who want to go off the beaten path.  Most programs range from a few weeks to a semester and involve a variety of fields of academic study.  US students who choose Vietnam as a study abroad destination are members of a rather exclusive … Continue reading Study Abroad Opportunities in Vietnam for US Students

MapleBear Canadian Kindergarten: Teaching Kids to Throw Garbage in the Garbage Bin

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We teach our kids to throw garbage in the garbage bin, not on the street.  An interesting way to market a kindergarten.  It's not about learning to communicate, play, and interact with others appropriately; it's about teaching your children to become good citizens by disposing of their waste properly.  It's true that there is a distressing shortage of environmental awareness among … Continue reading MapleBear Canadian Kindergarten: Teaching Kids to Throw Garbage in the Garbage Bin

At Home in Việt Nam

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This is the name of a blog created by Becky Gordon, an English teacher in the School Year Abroad (SYA) program in Hanoi.  As she writes in the introduction, "this monthly blog will chronicle the students’ lives in Viet Nam outside the SYA classroom. A process of sharing and peer-editing in their English class will precede all … Continue reading At Home in Việt Nam

Spring 2012 StudyUSA Community College Fairs

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Vietnam now ranks 8th among all countries sending students to the US, according to the 2011 Open Doors international academic mobility report, with nearly 15,000 students, three-quarters of whom are undergraduates.  Of that 75%, the majority begin their studies at a community college.  Capstone Vietnam's StudyUSA Community College (CC) Fairs in Vietnam cover all three regions of … Continue reading Spring 2012 StudyUSA Community College Fairs