LanguageCorps Asia - TEFL / TESOL Teaching English. Vietnam universities to help speed epidemic response. VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam One Health University Network has established linking universities throughout the country to increase regional co-ordination in the response to animal diseases that can affect human health. Its first meeting was held yesterday with the participation of 10 universities, laying the foundation for Vietnamese universities to address and develop training and research. With the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Ha Noi School of Public Health, the Ha Noi Medical University and the Ha Noi University of Agriculture’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will act as the focal institutions for the newly formed network. * English Centres ink pact with Oxford Press The Viet Nam-USA Society English Centres (VUS)...
Vietnam Becoming Magnet for Expat Workers. Vietnam becoming magnet for expat workers. The booming economy needs foreigners to plug skill gaps in many areas while locals, by and large, do not resent the higher wages the expats are paid. Wishing to discover Vietnamese food and culture, Andre Bosia came to the country four years ago and found it a comfortable place to live. It was much more relaxed and generally very different from what he had imagined. The French executive chef at the Sofitel Metropole Hanoi says: “Vietnam is a good place to live in. I can get a salary corresponding to my qualification and working hours. It is simple to integrate into the society since people are very friendly.” He now wants to settle down here, especially after marrying a Vietnamese fashion designer.
Bosia is just one of many expats who want to live and work in Vietnam, where opportunities are aplenty. They were from more than 60 countries and territories, with 58 percent coming from Asia and 28.5 percent from Europe. Welcomed by locals. 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. 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.
Unlike Americans, especially baby boomers, who will never get past the Vietnam war, the Vietnamese have gotten over it. 3. 4. Education a Priority for Vietnam’s Youth. Education a Priority for Vietnam’s Youth. Hanoi (Asia News) – Education for young Vietnamese is getting worse. A survey among high school students in Ho Chi Minh City shows that 32.2 per cent are disrespectful towards teachers, 38.8 per cent uses foul language often and 53.6 per cent does it sometimes. Another survey indicates that from 2005 to the present the number of students involved in antisocial behaviour increased in both frequency and gravity. The rise in sexual abuse is another aspect of the broader moral decline among young people.
In 2011 alone, 1386 minors were sexually abused by adults, that is 11.8 per cent more than in 2010. AsiaNews spoke with Prof Hoàng Tuy, 84, who recently won the first Constantin Caratheodory Prize established by the International Society of Global Optimisation. “Education is an urgent matter. A decline in academic ethics as well as lying and dishonesty among public officials are among the reasons for this trend, the scholar noted. Vietnamese Kids Choose Education to End Poverty. Vietnamese kids choose education to end poverty. Vietnamese children aged between 10 and 12 see education as an ideal solution for disrupting the cycle of poverty, according to the annual Small Voices, Big Dreams report recently released by US-based child sponsorship group ChildFund Alliance. Fifty-three percent of those polled said they would upgrade the nation’s schools to improve children’s lives if they were Vietnam’s president, whereas 49.3 percent of all respondents in other developing countries had the same idea.
A comparable percentage (52 percent) said they would opt for a career as a doctor or a teacher, while a lower rate (42.7 percent) of the surveyed children in those countries selected the two jobs. 26 percent of the Vietnamese respondents prefer doing homework over other activities in their free time. The respondents were asked six open-ended questions about many topics, including health, education, and child safety and security. Vietnam.
Vietnam TEFL TESOL. Vietnam Students to Compete in Global Business Competition. Vietnam Students to Compete in Global Business Competition. A four-person team from RMIT International University Vietnam, the local branch of the Australian-based RMIT University, has qualified for an international business competition hosted in July by Sri Lanka after winning the national edition last week. The Lion Team beat three rivals from Hanoi Foreign Trade University, HCMC Foreign Trade University and Hanoi University in the final last Wednesday with their report on a management accounting case, which had been shortlisted against nearly 130 submissions by tertiary schools nationwide. They were then required to give an oral presentation on their report to a board of judges composed of business leaders, together with its synopsis and a team introduction video.
Another team from RMIT Vietnam also finished in fourth place at a similar contest held by one of the big four auditors, KPMG, in Hong Kong in April. Vietnam and Cambodia - Land of the Dragon. Vietnam and Cambodia - Land of the Dragon. "I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam... (and Cambodia)... that everything is so intense... The colours, the taste, even the rain. Nothing like the...rain in London. They say whatever you're looking for, you will find here. Ancient mythology tells us that the people of Vietnam are descendants of the Dragon Lord Lạc Long Qun and the Immortal Fairy u Cơ.
Landing in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam and home to about 3.7 million people and 1.2 million motor bikes, is like landing in the heart of a giant mosquito that never sleeps. Leaving the bustle of the city behind and traveling northwards towards the sea, highway 5 takes you to a world Heritage site, and the tail of the "descending dragon. " According to local legend, Halong Bay was created by a family of dragons, sent by the gods to help protect the Vietnamese from Chinese invaders. Harvesting rice in the blazing heat. Today, the complex of temples is a World Heritage site. Hua Hin Beach Resort Quiet Enough. Hua Hin a Beach Resort That’s Quiet Enough for a King. AS the late afternoon sun bathes the horizon in purple and crimson, I wander slowly down the long, curving beach.
Though rocks mar part of the five-mile-long stretch, most of the waterfront is covered with white sand. On the southern end of the beachfront, a towering, slim golden Buddha statue peers out over the sea, and I can see small white and yellow shrines cut into the rocks of a nearby mountain fringed with low mist. When I sit in the surf, I notice young Thai men riding black-and-white spotted horses up and down the beach, offering rides to tourists. Thai families doggy paddle near me, luxuriating in the bath-warm water and searing sunlight. There aren't many places left in Thailand where travelers can sit in the surf undisturbed. Arriving in Hua Hin, in fact, I quickly notice the mellow atmosphere far different from the blaring beer bars and neon dance shows of other Thai beaches like Pattaya.
HCM City to Set Primary School English Schedule. HCM City to set primary school English schedule. Only on September 16 did primary schools receive word from the HCM City Education and Training Department requesting schools to prepare for universal English teaching program. VnnNews – Only on September 16 did primary schools receive word from the HCM City Education and Training Department requesting schools to prepare for universal English teaching program. The department will not hold a meeting to discuss the plan until September 23. Nguyen Ngoc Long, Headmaster of Hoa Binh Primary School, noted that the school has some basic equipment for English teaching, but lacks others like computers, TVs and cassettes or CDs. According to Long, the biggest difficulty at his school is overcrowding. According to Nguoi Lao Dong, most primary schools in the trial English program are facing difficulties. Nguyen Thi Huynh Thoa, Headmaster of Duoc Song Primary School, confirmed that the school’s material facilities and teaching staff have been ready.
A Tour Group Cycles from Saigon Vietnam to Bangkok Thailand. A tour group cycles from Saigon Vietnam to Bangkok Thailand. In March, my partner and I cycled from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to Bangkok - a memorable two-week holiday that took us through three distinct countries in hot and humid South-East Asia. The trip was both more, and less, daunting than it sounds. So don't stop reading. You can do it, too, if you are reasonably fit (if you can easily cover 60 kilometres in a day) and don't mind traipsing through strangers' chicken coops to get to the outhouse. You don't have to be a buff 30-year-old, in other words.
Nor did we cycle every single kilometre: we covered some distance in river boats, an air-conditioned backup van and even an antique "bamboo train. " We also enjoyed regular rest days swimming in the hotel pool - when we weren't drinking icy beer at cheerful bars, or poking through glittery, local markets filled with dollar-store junk and all manner of mutant fruits and vegetables. Despite the obvious poverty, we encountered few beggars. South to North Vietnam An Unforgettable Experience. South to North Vietnam An Unforgettable Experience. Hitting the road to Vietnam, I didn't know what to expect; the journey began in Southern Vietnam in Ho Chi Min City, formerly known as Saigon. We started off exploring the city, with our pro globalization cyclo driver kept saying "Got mouth to eat, Got no mouth to speak". We then traveled to Cao Dai Temple, in which the temple was like going through some mad Alice in Wonderland dream. The architecture was like nothing I have ever seen before, it was modern with lots of exquisite art and detail everywhere.
The religion is a combination of teachings from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam and other religions with the intention to promote peace. Another highlight was visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels, which is an ingenious invention of seeing how resilience the Vietnamese during the American war. The Vietcong controlled under the grounds while Americans controlled the sky and land. Vietnam Becoming Magnet for Expat Workers. India to Help Vietnamese Teachers in English Training. India to help Vietnamese teachers in English training. Vietnam will be sending teachers to India for English training, besides sourcing English teachers from India, according to the ministry of human resource development. The objective behind the entire exercise will be to prepare 20,000 English teachers in Vietnam over the next few years. Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan Thursday presented the proposal to union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.
According to secretary (school education), the Central Board of School Education could provide the necessary training in India, through its Sahodaya School network. English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U) Hyderabad as well as Delhi University (DU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have also agreed to cooperate with Vietnamese institutions. India will also aid Vietnam in curriculum development. Read more at. Vietnamese Language Alphabet Vowels. Vietnamese Language Alphabet Vowels. Vietnamese, formerly known under French colonization as Annamese, is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people, and of about several million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam. It is part of the Austroasiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (several times larger than the other Austroasiatic languages put together).
Much vocabulary has been borrowed from Chinese, especially words that denote abstract ideas in the same way European languages borrow from Latin and Greek. There are various regional dialects, the four main being: North, North-central, Central, and Southern. Read more at. Vietnam Boosts Education for Ethnic Minority Children.
Vietnam boosts education for ethnic minority children. For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen's ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her questions. As the school year wore on, they dropped out to tend farm animals or hawk knick-knacks to the tourists. Quyen was teaching in Vietnamese, the language of the majority Kinh, but ethnic minorities in the country's northern hills speak Mong. "Before, when I was teaching all subjects in Vietnamese, the children could understand only about 60 percent of what I was saying," Quyen told IRIN.
"The children did not enjoy school. With Vietnamese the official language for education, school remains inaccessible for many ethnic minorities, who comprise 13 percent of the population and are among the country's most impoverished. Lagging behind Yet more than half the ethnic minorities live in poverty, versus only 10 percent of Kinh. "Many of them live in hard-to-reach areas. Austria Boost Vietnam's Tertiary Education. Austria Boost Vietnam's Tertiary Education. HCM CITY — Viet Nam and Austria would continue strengthening co-operation in tertiary education and science and technology, a forum was told in HCM City yesterday. The Viet Nam-Austria forum on tertiary education, science and research was attended by Austrian President Heinz Fischer and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.
The forum was considered an important bridge between the two countries' higher education and science and technology sectors. Speaking at the event, President Heinz Fischer said he was pleased with the development of bilateral ties in the science and research sector through co-operative agreements between tertiary education and research agencies, as well as the framework of the Austrian Southeast Asian University Partnership Network (ASEA-UNINET) initiated by Austrian universities.
Viet Nam considered education and science and technology vital for rapid and sustainable development, he said.