Dr. Mark Ashwill, Capstone managing director and co-founder, was mentioned as a contributor under Sources for Insights: List of Think Tanks and Thinkers for the Ho Chi Minh City Peace & Development Foundation (HPDF), an…
I just wanted to say how much my staff and I enjoy working with the good folks at Study in the USA.
After a long delay, the Student and Exchange Visitor Programme of the United States Department of Homeland Security has released the latest update on international student enrolment at all levels. As of last month…
Wishing all of you and your families a joyous holiday season and a New Year filled with peace, love and happiness!
Below is a copy/paste from a recent StudyUK/British Council update, very good news for UK educational institutions and those, consultants and education agents, who help promote and facilitate study in the UK. (I wish…
After the latest Open Doors report was released, Allan E. Goodman, president & CEO of the Institute of International Education (IIE), did his level best to spin the statistics by pointing to cost as the overriding…
I have some good news for those of you who are involved in the recruitment of US-bound Vietnamese students. Interest in study in the USA among Vietnamese parents and students remains high, as evidenced by the number of…
Dr. Mark Ashwill, managing director and co-founder, was quoted in this recent Vietnam Economics Times article.
10 years ago this month Capstone Vietnam, now one of Viet Nam's premier full-service educational consulting companies, was established in Hanoi. That was a time when our vision, mission and values were still taking…
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…
Join Mark Ashwill, managing director and co-founder of Capstone Vietnam, a full-service educational consulting company in Viet Nam and former country director of the Institute of International Education-Viet Nam
State Department reverses long-standing policy against working with commissioned international recruiting agents, will welcome them at EducationUSA events.
Capstone Vietnam is pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Ashwill, managing director and co-founder, will speak at an unofficial, pre-conference Viet Nam student recruitment seminar to be held on Monday, May 27, 2018 in…
Capstone Vietnam is pleased to announce that Mark Ashwill, Managing Director and Co-Founder, will speak at an unofficial, pre-conference Viet Nam student recruitment seminar to be held on Monday, May 28, 2018 at a…
Lower incomes not a bar to educational achievement, World Bank says Simon Roughneen, Asia Regional Correspondent
Vietnam’s economy will grow faster this year than in 2017 and will see only a “minor” impact from President Trump’s trade tariffs, according to a senior government official.
The country's emerging ranks of globetrotters are also forecast to spend bigger on foreign holidays.
In my approximately 20-minute presentation, I provided a wide-ranging overview of current/recent issues and trends in Viet Nam in order to place interest in overseas study and student recruitment in a broader societal…
“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…
Perspectives from Dr. Mark A. Ashwill on international education and Vietnamese student mobility, shared first on LinkedIn.
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