Elections 2012. Myths Americans Believe About Vietnam. Myths Americans Believe About Vietnam. 1.
Religion is not tolerated in Vietnam. Quite the contrary! Sometimes I read stories on the web about religious persecution in Vietnam, but what I see here in Ho Chi Minh City is a very religious people, far more religious in general than Americans. People here will nearly all say they are either Catholic or Buddhist; it's hard to find anyone who would call themselves Agnostic or Atheistic- I haven't met one yet. The Catholic Church is one of the biggest property owners in Ho Chi Minh City. There are also Buddhist temples in every neighborhood; many of them are huge. Granted, there are conflicts between the Vietnamese government and some religious leaders who get involved in politics. Study in America. Study in America.
With America being the top destination for students around the world, US-based International Student Network (ISN) will be holding the "American Education Scholarship Expo 2012" at the Four Seasons Bangkok on Feb 25 from 5:30-8pm. Top 25 universities in the US will be represented at this event and up to $1 million (about 31 million baht) in scholarships will be available to Thai students. The expo kicks off with a 30-minute talk on "How to get a US Student Visa" starting 5:30pm.
This is also an opportunity for students and parents to meet with admission officers of the represented universities and colleges. More Foreign Students Studying in USA. Global Teacher Shortage Threatens Progress on Education. Global teacher shortage threatens progress on education.
The UN estimates 8 million extra teachers are needed worldwide by 2015. But how do countries compare? The world urgently needs to recruit more than 8 million extra teachers, according to UN estimates, warning that a looming shortage of primary school teachers threatens to undermine global efforts to ensure universal access to primary education by 2015. Teacher's Passion Leads to Native Education Job. Occupy the Classroom. Occupy the Classroom.
OCCUPY Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the entire bottom 90 percent. The American DREAM. The American DREAM.
No facet of our country's immigration debate is more heartless or economically foolish than our failure to support undocumented children who have grown up on American soil. These students have gone to school alongside their native-born peers and in many cases have shown themselves to be outstanding scholars, athletes and entrepreneurs and yet when they graduate from high school, they enter a legal limbo with limited resources to pursue higher education and climb the economic ladder. Help from Congress won't be forthcoming given Republican intransigence. Even the so-called "moderate" Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, recently said that opposing financial aid to undocumented students was not heartless, but smart. Despite More College Grads US Workforce Needs Even More. Despite more college grads, U.S. workforce needs even more.
The number of adult Americans who have earned college degrees has been increasing, but not fast enough to keep up with workforce demands, according to a report released Monday. At the current rate, employers in 2025 will need about 23 million more degree-holders than the nation's colleges and universities will have produced. United States And Indonesia Partnering for Higher Education. United States And Indonesia Partnering for Higher Education.
Nearly a year after the Obama administration set a priority of improving higher education exchanges with Indonesia, the U.S. is increasing its ‘commitment to cultural diplomacy’, writes Sara Schonhardt at Voice of America. As part of the outreach, the administration aims to double the number of Indonesian students studying in the U.S., which officials say will help the U.S. economy and improve relations with the rapidly developing Muslim-majority nation. Last June, to support university partnerships and student exchange programs, the Obama administration earmarked $165 million over five years.
United States And Indonesia Partnering for Higher Education. Teach English Abroad, Teaching English Abroad - LanguageCorps. Chinese, Ibero-American Educators Meet to Promote Chinese Teaching. Chinese, Ibero-American educators meet to promote Chinese teaching.
Education officials from China and the directors of Confucius Institutes in the Ibero-American countries have opened a conference to consider ways of boosting the overseas teaching of the Chinese language. The Second Congress of Confucius Institutes in Ibero-America, which opened Saturday in this Chilean coastal city, is aimed at sharing experiences among Confucius Institutes directors. It also seeks ways to better teaching, improve teaching materials and provide additional training for educators. The three-day event groups delegations from Spain, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico and China. Meanwhile, like its first session in the Spanish city of Valencia in 2008, the congress is also committed to strengthening cooperation between Confucius Institutes in Latin America and Hanban, the headquarters of Confucius Institutes in Beijing.
County Teachers Receive Grants to Travel Abroad. County teachers receive grants to travel abroad.
NEWARK -- Katelyn Kochheiser, a special education teacher at Cherry Valley Elementary School, will visit Cambodia for the second time this summer. USA. United States.