According to the 2010 Open Doors international academic mobility report, the number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by a modest 3% to 690,923 during the 2009/10 academic year. As in the previous academic year, Vietnam ranks 9th overall and 2nd in international enrollment at community colleges after South Korea. … Continue reading 6 in 10 Vietnamese Students in the US Enrolled at Community Colleges
SEVIS By The Numbers: December 2010 Quarterly Snapshot
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
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?
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?
Triển lãm Cao đẳng Cộng đồng Mỹ/StudyUSA Community College Fairs in Vietnam
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4th Annual Education Conference: Cementing Cooperation & Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-Vietnam Education Partnerships
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
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…
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…
Spring 2011 StudyUSA Community College Fairs in Vietnam
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What’s Hot
…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
An International Educator in Vietnam 
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