"Chợ Đầu Mối" về Giáo Dục tại Việt Nam
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10/10/2015 | Ngọc Hà | Bản tin số 37

Kết quả khảo sát trên được Bộ GD-ĐT thực hiện tại một số địa phương, đã được công bố tại hội thảo quốc gia xây dựng mô hình tư vấn tâm lý tổ chức tại Hà Nội ngày 9-10.

20/10/2015 | Hồng Hải | Bản tin số 37

Tại buổi tạo đàm “Tác hại của rượu, bia và giải pháp” do Hội Nhà báo Việt Nam phối hợp với HealthBridge Canada tổ chức chiều 19/10, bà Hoàng Anh, Giám đốc HealthBridge Canada cho biết, theo thống kê mỗi năm người Việt Nam tiêu thụ hơn 3 tỉ lít bia và gần 68 triệu lít rượu. Chi phí cho việc uống rượu, bia của người Việt Nam khoảng 3 tỉ USD/năm. Trong khi mức tiêu thu rượu bia trên phạm vi toàn cầu suốt cả thập kỷ qua hầu như không thay đổi thì tại Việt Nam con số này liên tục gia tăng, đặc biệt ở nhóm trẻ vị thành niên, thanh niên.

OCT. 1, 2015 | JAMES B. STEWART | Bản tin số 37

Students, parents and educators increasingly obsessed with college rankings have a new tool: the Obama administration’s College Scorecard. The new database focuses on a college’s graduation rate, graduates’ median earnings 10 years after graduation and the percentage of students paying back their college loans.

01/10/2015 | Tăng Thị Thùy | Bản tin số 37

Báo cáo mới nhất của OECD (Tổ chức Hợp tác và Phát triển Kinh tế ) dài 200 trang dựa trên kết quả khảo sát PISA 2012 - công bố ngày 15/9 - đã khẳng định việc sử dụng máy tính và công nghệ thông tin trong trường học không cải thiện được kết quả học tập của học sinh. Thậm chí, với nhiều nước, việc sử dụng máy tính thường xuyên ở trường sẽ làm giảm thành tích học tập của học sinh.

30/09/2015 | Hao Phan | Bản tin số 37

Digitized Buddhist journals in Vietnam before 1975

Huệ Quang Temple (Tu Viện Huệ Quang) in Saigon has been digitizing some important Buddhist journals published in Vietnam before 1975, including Tư Tưởng, published by Vạn Hạnh University from 1970 to 1975. Other titles go back to 1930s.
http://thuvienhuequang.vn/Library/index.php/thu-vien-online
According to Huệ Quang’s website, its library holds about 30,000 titles and is open to the public.
http://thuvienhuequang.vn/Library/index.php

published in September 2015 from Routledge Taylor & Francis group. | By Yumiko Yasuda | Bản tin số 37

New book on Vietnamese and Cambodian NGOs and the Mekong River -- Rules, Norms and NGO Advocacy Strategies: Hydropower Development on the Mekong River,

The book analyzes how formal and informal rules and norms influence advocacy strategies of NGO coalitions. Comparative analysis was conducted of advocacy strategies by Cambodia and Vietnamese NGO coalitions, on their advocacy against the Xayaburi hydropower dam built on the Mekong River. Through this analysis, the book aims to unfold barriers and opportunities civil society actor faces when working in transboundary contexts.
Contact the author at : yumikoyasuda@gmail.com

New dissertation :Hmong women and tourism in Vietnam

Dr Lê Thị Đan Dung : “Experiences of Hmong women engaging in tourism-related activities in Sa Pa, Northwestern Vietnam” at VU University Amsterdam on October 5th, 2015.
Through exploring the experiences of Hmong women involved in tourism-related activities, my focus centers on how working outside the home has affected their lives and their perceptions of themselves. In this respect, my findings show that Hmong women seem to be living in two different worlds at once, and this result in lives which are full of contradictions and tension. The “Kinh and international outside” world offers enjoyment, satisfaction and freedom from patriarchal constraints. In particular, the Hmong women’s romantic relationships with their boyfriends in the marketplace were significant for them. Hmong women gain emotional satisfaction from these relationships and they see them as a form of therapy which helps them to cope with the hardships they endure in their marriages, including the difficulties they have in getting married, their hard work in the rice fields, their housework, and the stress of dealing with their husbands’ extramarital relationships. However, the “inside” world of the home requires a submission to gendered discourses about what women should do and how they should behave in order to be “good Hmong women.” Cultural norms of masculinity and femininity inform their perceptions of work and their roles within the family. Hmong women’s perceptions of themselves are shaped by stories and gossip about the characteristics of both proper and improper Hmong women, along with perceptions about marriage and inheritance which are structured by Hmong culture.

Oct. 28, 2015 | THE NEW YORK TIMES | Bản tin số 37

Every year since 1952, the Book Review has convened an independent panel of judges to select the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books. Judged purely on artistic merit, it’s the only annual award of its kind.

Oct. 19, 2015 | By MAX FRANKEL | Bản tin số 37

These transcripts begin with Nixon reflecting on the intense “Christmas bombing” of North Vietnam at the end of 1972, which he deems to have been a personally difficult decision but “perhaps . . . a good thing.” He thinks it enhanced “our credibility” and also helped the White House to get credit for the peace deal that Henry Kissinger was concluding with the North Vietnamese. Most surprising is the evidence that once American prisoners are home, Nixon resists all suggestions of more military strikes to help the South Vietnamese or to punish Hanoi’s violations of the accord. He clings to his “peace with honor” — “fragile as it may be.” He knows that a non-Communist South Vietnam may survive only “for a while,” but he is out at last and has equipped the South to fend for itself. Enough.

Edited by Ooi Keat Gin, Hoang Anh Tuan | © 2016 – Routledge -- 302 pages -- USD 170. | Bản tin số 37

This book examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security, considers urban growth, international relations and the beginnings of European involvement with the region, and discusses religious factors, in particular the spread and impact of Christianity. One key theme of the book is the consideration of how well-developed Southeast Asia was before the onset of European involvement, and, how, during the peak of the commercial boom in the 1500s and 1600s, many polities in Southeast Asia were not far behind Europe in terms of socio-economic progress and attainments.