ChatGPT created this image based on my prompt. Free’s good, right? As I’m fond of telling colleagues who join Capstone events or express interest in doing so, we pride ourselves on ethical marketing and organic…
ChatGPT generated this image based on my prompt. While most colleagues who travel to Vietnam to recruit students are passionate about their work and always put their best foot forward, there are some whose heart is not…
This is an especially exciting and meaningful year for Capstone Education, a full-service educational consulting company I founded 15 years ago last month. We recently finished our fall 2024 StudyGlobal Education Fairs…
On the auspicious occasion of our 15th anniversary, I’d like to share a few thoughts about Capstone Education, which I co-founded in 2009. Leading Capstone has been one of the most exciting and rewarding adventures of…
Vietnam was a country that had survived the worst that two world powers had thrown at it and held its collective head high, ready, willing, and eager to forge ahead into a glowing future.
Dr. Mark A. Ashwill is pleased to have played a modest role in bringing this project to fruition: Vietnamese Higher Education At A Crossroads
The StudyGlobal Education Fairs are a unique opportunity for students and parents to connect with international educational institutions and their representatives. At this event, we had the chance to meet Đặng Hoàng…
As someone whose tagline is “an academic by training and an international educator and education entrepreneur by trade”, I value accurate and up-to-date information and am willing to expend the effort to obtain it.
In order to gain deeper insights into Vietnamese students' aspirations for studying abroad, Capstone interviewed a talented student from Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted who will begin studying in the US this…
Let's take a closer look at what Capstone’s Spring 2024 StudyGlobal Education Fairs had to offer.
Screenshot Last month, there were 26,919 Vietnamese students in the US, mostly in higher education, according to the SEVIS Data Mapping Tool. Here’s the breakdown in descending numerical order: Four-year colleges and…
These countries host over 90% of all Vietnamese studying abroad, 58% of whom are close to home in East Asia. Australia is now the leading English-speaking destination, a place it frequently trades with the US.
Even when I was country director of the Institute of International Education (IIE) in Vietnam (from 2005-09) I couldn’t understand the excitement about the annual release of the latest Open Doors Report. My plea to…
Australia has surpassed the US as the world’s leading English-speaking host of Vietnamese students, according to the Australian Department of Education. As of July 2023, there were 27,764 Vietnamese students in…
Violence is often a catalyst for people, even those who think of themselves as enlightened international educators, to show their true colours and revert to tribal loyalties.
When it rains, it pours. Being the wonk that I am, I have been checking periodically for a SEVIS update since the last one was uploaded in March 2023. At that time, there were 24,865 Vietnamese students in the US at all…
In a recent interview, Dr Fanta Aw, the newly minted CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, perhaps signalling a shift in rhetoric and priorities, emphasised the importance of “recruiting international…
While the periodic SEVIS updates, sometimes monthly, other times quarterly, contain real-time statistics, the annual reports present cumulative totals. According to the 2022 report (PDF download), the total number of…
Here are the latest Vietnam-related stats from the February 2023 SEVIS update. (You can also access these data for other countries using the interactive map.) This is a follow-up to my 10 January 2023 post with…
Below are a famous Alexis de Tocqueville quote to kick off my latest University World News essay and the first three paragraphs. (My original title was Fake Education Credentials: Wink, Nod, Buy & Sell, which was…
These countries host 90% of all Vietnamese studying abroad, over two-thirds (67%) of whom are in Asian countries. The USA is still the leading English-speaking destination. Vietnam ranks 6th among places of origin.
The newest pollution kid on the block in Vietnam is visual, a recent disturbing phenomenon in major urban centers – graffiti.
Anyone who knows me or has read my work knows that I can be severely critical of my home country. My criticism is motivated by anger at injustice and hypocrisy. It’s also because I care. There are so many avoidable…
Don Luce, who passed away on November 17, 2022, a week before the US Thanksgiving, at the age of 88 in Niagara Falls, NY, was a kindred spirit and one of my heroes on a decidedly short list.
"When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit." "It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great…
Perspectives from Dr. Mark A. Ashwill on international education and Vietnamese student mobility, shared first on LinkedIn.
