It’s fitting that the Hanoi office of Capstone, one of Viet Nam’s premier educational consulting companies, is located at 2 Lê Quý Đôn Street in the Hai Bà Trưng District of Hanoi. There are many streets, schools, and…
As I’m sure all of you would agree, 2020 was a supremely challenging year both personally and professionally. Viet Nam has fared better than most countries because of its remarkable success in containing COVID-19.
Having lived in Viet Nam for over 15 years, I can say with absolute certainty that I enjoy Christmas here more than in the US. Even though most Vietnamese are not Christian, it is still a special and even magical time…
I enjoyed participating in this recent webinar with my colleague, Ngoc Anh, Capstone’s Hanoi-based educational services manager. Although it started at the end of a long day, Viet Nam time, we were both energized by the…
As of January 2021, there were 68.72 million Internet users in Viet Nam, which comprises 70.3% of the population. There were 72 million active social media users, or 73.7% of the population. (That's a YOY growth rate of…
Is the Bloom Off the Canadian Rose for Vietnamese Students?
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…
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…
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…
“Viet Nam remains a shining star in a rather dark and gloomy international student recruitment galaxy for US educational institutions”
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
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…
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…
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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