July 24, 2011
With hydropower running amok in this country, local critics of neighboring dam projects are throwing stones in a glass house A view of the Cat Tien National Park, where two planned hydropower projects, if built, would encroach on around 140 hectares of forest. Conservationists fear that the two planned dams would totally transform the [...]
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July 12, 2011
Tran Van Thanh (left) and a group of foreign experts during a field trip in the Cat Tien National Park. (Photo: Sai Gon Tiep Thi) The director of the Cat Tien National Park, a UNESCO listed biosphere reserve, says he is determined to stand by opinions contrary to state agencies pushing for the development of [...]
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February 6, 2011
After nearly five years of searching, a village in Quang Binh is finally getting answers about the fate of 13 children A Ruc mother in Quang Binh Province holds up photos of her two children. She claims a local center sent them out of the country without her consent. The Italian International Adoption Commission [...]
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December 12, 2010
Vietnamese catfish producers and European importers are demanding the World Wildlife Fund re-evaluate its red-listing of the hugely popular export item A worker catches tra fish at a fish farm in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam Local catfish producers and government officials are calling a recent analysis of Vietnam’s most popular farmed fish “incorrect” [...]
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January 18, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – Four curriculums of Vietnam’s universities have been recognized by AUN as meeting ASEAN standards. According to Dr Vu Thi Phuong Anh, Director of the Centre for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment under HCM City National University, the external assessment delegation of AUN carried out its first assessment in Vietnam in December 2009 [...]
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January 15, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is putting in place plans to train over 10,000 doctors overseas. Participants at the workshopTo this end the Ministry of Education and Training is setting up a cooperative education program with a number of foreign countries according to Deputy Minister Pham Vu Luan. Luan stressed at a two-day workshop on building partnership [...]
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November 27, 2009
Education ministryâs efforts to improve higher education quality through studentsâ evaluation of lecturersâ performance may bring counter-effects without proper preparations and considerations, experts warned. Schools need to equip students with certain knowledge, including the awareness of their responsibilities in training programs, or they will tend to assess lecturers by feeling only, Nguyen Van Hung, former [...]
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November 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Student evaluations of lecturers has kicked off at many universities. Many schools doubt the relevancy of these assessments. Student assessments are only relatively accurate, because it is very difficult to give an overall assessment of lecturers’ qualifications in a questionnaire, according to Associate Prof Dr Thai Ba Can, President of the HCM City [...]
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November 20, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Universities have been assessing lecturers as requested by the Ministry of Education and Training – however don’t expect the results to be made available. Le Trong Thang, head of the Training Division at Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, said that the university has started its assessment programme and has received some initial [...]
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November 10, 2009
G20 policymakers agreed to maintain support for the recovery until it is assured in order to restore the global economy and financial system to health. Though a series of positive signs have shown that global economy is in the recovery process, the G20 policymakers said “while we will continue to provide support for the economy [...]
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University assessments may remain secret
LookAtVietnam – Universities have been assessing lecturers as requested by the Ministry of Education and Training – however don’t expect the results to be made available. Le Trong Thang, head of the Training Division at Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, said that the university has started its assessment programme and has received some initial [...]
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