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Vietnam Studies Group
This listserv might be of interest to some of you. As its website explains, “the Vietnam Studies Group maintains an email discussion list for scholarly topics. The list is unmoderated, but approval is...
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Viet-Studies
Knowledge is like drugs — if you have it, you share it with friends. Anonymous (from Viet-Studies) Attention Inside Higher Ed Readers: Here is the link that IHE should have used to take you to the...
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Vietnam Ranks 61st in Prosperity Index
According to the Legatum Institute, an independent, non-partisan organization that researches and advocates for an expansive understanding of global prosperity, Vietnam ranks 61st in its annual...
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Education in Vietnam
Below is information about a new book, edited by Jonathan D. London and published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. Dr. London is an Assistant Professor (Sociology) in the...
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“The 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War: Revising the Past, Revisiting the...
This piece about the US commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War was published in The Huffington Post blog on 9 April 2013. I introduced it with this excerpt from a 2003 essay written...
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The Rushford Report on the “Consul General’s Candidacy as the Next Ambassador...
maavn:This blog post from Diplopundit and the 15 April 2013 article on which it’s based, entitled “How (Not) to Become a U.S. Ambassador” by Greg Rushford of The Rushford Report fame, definitely fall...
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Guest Post: MOOCs for Vietnam?
I first familiarized myself with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in 2009 as an undergraduate student. Since then, I’ve been a fan of sites like Coursera, iTunes U and edX, where I can hang around...
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Vietnam Happier Than The U.S.? Morning Ramblings
Here’s a recent exchange on a Vietnam-related listserv of which I’m a member: Act I: US-Based Vietnam Scholar (DF) Perhaps you have seen the feature in Time this week on happiness, which notes that in...
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The State of Vietnamese Higher Education: Point/Counterpoint
Below is a recent exchange on the Vietnam Studies Group (VSG) listserv between a Vietnamese-American professor and a young Vietnamese who recently graduated from a U.S. institution of higher education....
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The Audacity of Monsanto & the Short Memory of the Vietnam National...
Note: This is obviously NOT a post about education. Given the relative freedom of speech that this blog has afforded me since I left the employ of a quasi-US governmental nonprofit five years ago, I...
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The 7th “Engaging with Vietnam – An Interdisciplinary Dialogue” Conference
in combination with The First Vietnam-US Higher Education Forum I am pleased to share this announcement from the organizers of The 7th “Engaging with Vietnam – An Interdisciplinary Dialogue”...
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