Delta Global School (DGS) in Hanoi has granted 27 scholarships to Doan Thi Diem School students who have just completed elementary school and are preparing for middle school. The students will begin with an English course from October 3 before officially starting the DGS program in 2019. DGS was established in Vietnam under a cooperation agreement between the US-based Riverdale Country School and Doan Thi Diem Secondary School in Hanoi. DGS is a middle school and high school teaching an international curriculum from Grade 6 to Grade 12 under an International Bachelor program. The school’s purpose is to train talent for Vietnam and give wings to talented children to successfully apply to top universities around the world, after which when they can become entrepreneurs or CEOs of large corporations and contribute to society. The DGS campus is now under construction on the same campus as the Doan Thi Diem Secondary School in Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem district, which will … [Read more...] about Delta Global School grants scholarships to Doan Thi Diem students
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Teacher of English applies new teaching method
Teacher of English applies new teaching methodBy Minh Tuan English teacher Duong Doan Hoang Truc (center, grey shirt) poses with her students after the play - PHOTO: MINH TUAN HCMC - I was invited last week to a show in which students of the part-time American Literature class lectured by teacher of English Duong Doan Hoang Truc at HCMC Open University stage the drama “Sorry, Wrong Number” by Lucille Fletcher. On the way from my office to the university, I thought this would be just another role-playing as normal as many other English classes in the city. However, when I entered the classroom, I was really impressed as everything was prepared so carefully and professionally. The room was transformed into a mini stage with everything needed for the play. Speaking to The Saigon Times, Hoang Truc said after obtaining a master degree at the University of York in the UK and came back to HCMC Open University for work, she decided to support teacher Le Quang Truc in … [Read more...] about Teacher of English applies new teaching method
US Navy nurse, jailed for protest, revisits VN
VietNamNet Bridge – American Navy nurse Susan Schnall was dismissed from service and sentenced to six months of hard labour for protesting against the American war in Vietnam in 1969. In March she visited Vietnam for a fifth time with other 22 American veterans. They took part in a commemoration of the My Lai Massacre and the opening of an exhibition called Waging Peace at the War Remnants Museum in HCM City to display for the first time the newspapers, photographs, posters and films circulated underground by the GI peace movement. Viet Nam News spoke with Schnal. Nurse for peace: American Susan Schnall at the exhibition in HCM City. How were you involved with the American war in Vietnam? From 1967 to 1969 I was a Navy nurse at Oak Knoll Hospital, which was built during World War II in Oakland, California, to care for Marines wounded in the Pacific. I had joined the service to alleviate suffering by caring for wounded troops from the war in Vietnam. It was at night … [Read more...] about US Navy nurse, jailed for protest, revisits VN
Vietnamese-American doctor runs site providing English courses, medical knowledge
A Vietnamese-American doctor has helped many Vietnamese counterparts and medical workers to learn English and related knowledge by establishing a website called VietMD.net. Dr. Huynh Tran, or Wynn Tran in English, decided to run such courses as he used to struggle with English when coming to the U.S. nearly two decades ago. Difficult beginning in the U.S. Huynh and his family emigrated to America in 1999 when he had just finished his third year at the University of Architecture in Ho Chi Minh City. Without good English, Huynh had to take ESL courses first while working in a factory to assemble table legs. After two years vigorously studying English and other science subjects, Huynh was finally accepted to study architecture. After graduating, he worked as an architect designing clinics, medical offices, and hospitals in Western Michigan, sparking some interest in the field of medicine in him. There was another reason behind Huynh's switch to medicine, stemming from his very first … [Read more...] about Vietnamese-American doctor runs site providing English courses, medical knowledge