During my first trip to Vietnam in January 1996 to set up a summer program for U.S. students, I caught a glimpse of what could be a rapidly changing nation just opening up to world after decades of isolation and…
“Viet Nam remains a shining star in a rather dark and gloomy international student recruitment galaxy for US educational institutions”
Here's an overview of some of the activities in which Dr. Mark Ashwill, Capstone managing director and co-founder, will be involved at the NAFSA 2019 Annual Conference next month in Washington, D.C. They include two…
According to a survey by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC, 38.5% of United States institutions reported using agents in 2017, up from 30% in 2010.
I placed a gentleman's bet with myself that the number of young Vietnamese studying in Canada would top 20,000 last year. Based on the latest statistics for 2018 released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada…
I placed a gentleman's bet with myself that the number of young Vietnamese studying in Canada would top 20,000 last year. Based on the latest statistics for 2018 released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada…
The country's emerging ranks of globetrotters are also forecast to spend bigger on foreign holidays.
“Since most young Vietnamese, including those planning to study overseas, are online, one question to ask yourself is: how big is your digital footprint in Viet Nam?”
There is a tendency in Vietnam, with the media as an on- and offline amplifier, to engage in self-flagellation about education and other societal issues rather than looking carefully at the broader context and the…
Below is a graph with information about F-1 (student) visa issuances from 1998, the early days of Vietnamese studying in the US, to 2017, which ended on 30 September last year. These data are from this Excel file on the…
Perspectives from Dr. Mark A. Ashwill on international education and Vietnamese student mobility, shared first on LinkedIn.
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