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. 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. 2.
My own experience is only in the south, and it may be different in the north, but what I have experienced would actually be the opposite. To the Vietnamese, just like to people in developing countries everywhere, American is the promised land, the land of opportunity. Unlike Americans, especially baby boomers, who will never get past the Vietnam war, the Vietnamese have gotten over it. Also consider Vietnamese history. 3. 4. 5. 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. Interested students should bring multiple copies of their report cards, transcripts and TOEFL scores. This will allow the representatives to determine their admission and scholarship eligibility. Read more at. More Foreign Students Studying in USA. More foreign students studying in USA. International students and their dependents contributed more than $20 billion to the U.S. economy last year as record numbers of foreigners enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, reports to be released today show.
The numbers of U.S. students earning college credit abroad also is on the rise. The number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities rose 4.7% to 723,277 during the 2010-11 academic year, says an annual report by the Institute of International Education (IIE), which has tracked data since 1949. Enrollments of international students have overcome a four-year period of flat or declining growth that began in 2002-03 and reflected concerns about safety and U.S. immigration policies after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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. At least 2m new teaching positions will need to be created by 2015, the UN said in a report published this week. Burkina Faso, Eritrea, and Central African Republic (CAR) top the list of countries that will need to mount...
Read more at. 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. Most of the proposed remedies involve changes in taxes and regulations, and they would help. But the single step that would do the most to reduce inequality has nothing to do with finance at all. It’s an expansion of early childhood education. Huh? That will seem naïve and bizarre to many who chafe at inequities and who think the first step is to throw a few bankers into prison.
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.
It's up to us to step off the sidelines and give these young people a shot at the American Dream. Read more at. 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. "We are nowhere near at the pace that we need to be says," Jamie Merisotis, president of the non-profit Lumina Foundation, which released the report. "Look at it as an alarm, an urgent call to action.
" The foundation wants to increase the percentage of working-age Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60% in 2025 — a goal similar to one set by President Obama in 2009. The Lumina Foundation report released Monday, based on 2010 Census data, found a positive overall trend: 38.3% of Americans ages 25 to 64 had at least an associate's degree in 2010, up from 38.1% in 2009 and 37.9% in 2008. 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. This would support subjects such as agriculture, business and information technology. The U.S. is continuing to reach out to fast-growing economies like Indonesia and Vietnam as potential new markets for U.S. goods and services.
But to entice more Indonesians to American schools, Marciel said the U.S. must research and market better: 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. The first-year teacher found out Wednesday she received a $2,500 grant to travel to the country and teach during the summer. She is one of three teachers in the county to receive a Tibbie Leslie Travel Grant from the Licking County Foundation this year.
The grants were set up by a former teacher who grew up in Newark -- Elizabeth Randolph "Tibbie" Leslie -- and taught physical education at Withrow High School in Cincinnati for 30 years. Five teachers applied for the grant this year, Licking County Foundation Director Connie Hawk said. It's "not only how they're going to inspire their students, but how it's going to help them professionally," Hawk said. Brown's trip -- which she is taking in March during her spring break -- will take her to Madrid and Barcelona, Spain.
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