Friday, October 15, 2010
Bromsgrove International School needs IT Systems Engineer
Bromsgrove International School
Background:
Bromsgrove is a co-educational day and boarding school for boys and girls aged from 2 to 18 affiliated with Bromsgrove School UK. The school has 2 campuses. The Early Years Campus is located on Ramkamhaeng 164 Road and the Main Campus is adjacent to Windsor Park and Golf Club on Suwinthawong Road. For further details please see our website: www.bromsgrove.ac.th
IT SYSTEM ENGINEER (Bromsgrove International School)
The school is looking for IT System Engineer at its Windsor Park Campus on Suwinthawong Road.
- Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering
- At least 2 years of experience in an IT System Engineer or relevant areas
- Strong service orientation.
- Good command of English and Thai
- Strong interpersonal skills and independent
Job Description:
Please click here for Job Description
Application Process:
Applications by e-mail to jobs@bromsgrove.ac.th should include, preferably in Microsoft Word, a letter of application, your resume, a photograph of yourself (head and shoulders), expected salary, current salary, telephone and e-mail contact details of referees. (if available).
| Career Level | Middle |
| Yr(s) of Exp | 2 years |
| Qualification | Degree |
| Industry | Education |
| Job Function | Information Technology (I.T.) > Support Information Technology (I.T.) > Network & System Information Technology (I.T.) > Others Telecomm > System Engineering |
| Location | Meenburi Min Buri, Bangkok, Thailand Enlarge Map |
| Salary | Not Specified / Negotiable |
| Employment Type | Full Time, Permanent |
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The constructive Cambodian
Today’s trend towards issues affecting young people is the result of the baby boom that followed in the wake of civil wars that consumed Cambodian society in the 1970s and in the decade that followed.
But the question remains: How much have young Cambodians benefited from the ensuing changes to their still-impoverished nation?
Looking at recent unemployment figures might seem heartening, but everyone knows that these figures don’t represent the reality facing most of the Kingdom’s youth. Outside of the bustling capital, you will notice that when it comes to official unemployment reports, what you see is not what you get.
According to the study “Situation Analysis of Youth in Cambodia” released by the United Nations in 2009, much of the nearly 35 percent of the country’s population between the ages of 10 and 23 are migrating to urban areas and crossing borders legally or illegally. They are looking for a brighter future away from the destitution of rural Cambodia.
Yet what they find is insecure employment at best and oftentimes exploitation and slavery.
The truth that gross unemployment figures fail to expose is that there is a critical shortage of job opportunities for Cambodian youth in the provinces who, as they take on responsibility of caring for their families, are being forced into a fierce competition for whatever work is available.
To compound the problem, Cambodia’s rising youth workforce is the least-educated in the region, making their struggle against inflation even more difficult as better-skilled foreign workers are given preference for job openings all along the economic ladder.
The economic situation for Phnom Penh’s 2 million residents is so good that it can mask these alarming trends elsewhere in the country, but look beyond the development of the capital city and you can see that, although more provincial families are sending their kids to school, it is still an all-out struggle to keep kids in the classroom until they finish 9th grade, often counted as “completing high school” in the countryside, where expectations of students are only slightly higher than the dirt floors under their desks.
While moving about rural Cambodia, I have seen too many youth hanging out in gangs and resorting to violence to get their way. But I don’t see cruelty inside of them; I see wasted talent. I see minds that are waiting to be cultivated so they can help in the betterment of their country and I ask myself: What opportunities should they be given to allow them to show their full potential as students and workers? I want to know what paths are available for them to become the productive youth that are envisioned in the Millennium Development Goals, the optimistic plan for improving developing countries like Cambodia presented to the UN 15 years ago.
For those who care, reports of the alarming poverty in Cambodia are unavoidable. At least 30 percent of Cambodians fall below the poverty line, meaning they are unable to meet even the most basic needs for stable human existence. It makes you wonder if things can really be turned around by an idea, even if it is produced by some of the world’s best thinkers.
I can still remember Sambo Manara, the professor of my freshman-year history class, jumping to his feet during a lecture and urging every young person capable of working to create their own source of income. According to him, the poorest of the poor in Cambodia “are not farmers, but students who sit idle in class without doing anything significant”.
I agreed completely, and went out and earned my first US$70 as an employee. I wondered how much money could the 70 percent of us above the poverty line save over a full year if we spent only $2 a day. A childish thought perhaps, since there is a job market for a reason, but it seemed to illustrate the impact we could have if we pooled our resources.
It still comes as a shock to me that many Cambodian students choose to study management, hoping to become a manager or somebody important, while programs teaching critical skills such as engineering and technology are still in low demand. It is no wonder that investors often turn away from the domestic labour force to fill highly skilled positions. In many sectors, there are no experts here.
What’s worse is that most of the 300,000 young Cambodian graduates who are entering the workforce every year decided to treat school like a challenge instead of an opportunity. They tuned out in the classroom and cheated on tests, and in the end their parents paid for useless degrees.
Fortunately, youth-related organisations and associations have been sprouting up to teach young people the value of socially minded work and provide trainings that give them the skills and experience that my wise history professor called “invisible money good in our economy”.
A project in Kampong Thom comes to mind, where UNICEF worked with local governments to transform communities of failing youth into socially active leaders with love for their country and the skills to start socially minded small businesses to improve the lives of their neighbors.
The project has expanded to 12 communes, and if it is successful there the project will likely be expanded throughout Cambodia. But the program is time-consuming and, at best, will only reach a small portion of the youth who need this kind of outreach.
But it is not up to development organisations to fill the outstretched hands of Cambodia’s vulnerable people. Cambodian youth need to pull pack their hands and put them to work. If 30 percent of Cambodians are making less than $2 a day, the 70 percent of us who are youth can surely make an extra dollar a day to lift everyone above poverty.
It is also high time that youth left their hometown to find how different life is from the books they read. The true heroes among us are the blue-collar workers who endure backbreaking labor every day rather than waiting for humanitarian organisations to help them.
The tasks facing young Cambodians might seem overwhelming. It won’t be easy to give everyone access to a basic education, good health, proper employment and a voice in our society, but we must not aim for anything less. Cambodians younger than 30 account for a third of the work force today and will soon make up a majority.
For those of us lucky enough to go to university and understand the importance of personal freedoms and human rights, it is our calling to make real change in Cambodia. Many of our brothers and sisters are still stuck in the same mess our parents struggled to escape from nearly 40 years ago. It is urgent that we find a way to pull them out.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
"Secret to high TOEIC score is Wikipedia" according to Vietnamese perfect score winner
Joint training programmes booming
International training programs lack clear credentials
In Vietnam today, the foreign scholarship chase begins early
The principle of Vietnamese American Vocational Training College, Nguyen The Bao (R), awards Truong Cong Ly for being the first Vietnamese student with a perfect TOEIC score.
Born in a poor family, Ly has always had good results at school and university. Ly, a final-year student at the Banking Faculty of University of Economics HCMC, started to study English in September 2004 at VATC and always got outstanding results.
Last year, Ly enrolled for his first TOEIC test and got a good score of 955 but he wasn’t satisfied so he did it again this year.
“Learning English is long process like building a house. The four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing are the four walls while each brick is vocabulary that needs to be built up everyday,” said Ly. He added that his secret is reading articles on the internet, especially Wikipedia to bolster his reading skills, grammar and vocabulary, and watching movies on HBO and Star Movies to improve his listening and speaking.
Ly thanked his teachers at VATC for helping him get the perfect score.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
10 Most Fascinating Holes on Earth
Great Blue Hole (Belize)
Its almost perfect circular shape made it very popular among tourists who often visit this place, being the most attractive for scuba divers who are exploring its depths. Divers are also attracted with plenty of rare animal species and forms of life which can be found only in this place.
Diavik Mine (Canada)
The Burning Gates (Turkmenistan)
Glory Hole, Monticello Dam (California – US)
Dozens of teachers and students die in Burma boat capsizing
Several dozen students and two teachers died when a motor boat capsized on Wednesday morning near Laputta Township in the Irrawaddy Delta due to overloading, according to witness.
The boat was carrying some 80 people—most of them middle school students from several villages in Laputta Township—to a local student conference in a village called Mie Chaung Ein.
Local residents said the boat sank due to overloading.
“We have retrieved 36 bodies so far. Two are teachers and the rest are students. The rescue team is still searching for victims,” said a witness speaking anonymously.
A police official from Laputta Township police station confirmed the sinking but gave no details about casualties so far.
New Swedish School in Hua Hin Thailand
The Swedish School in Thailand will soon get a sister School in the fishing village Huay Yang south of Hua Hin.
Thailand got its first Swedish in Koh Lanta back in 2004 and it dint take long before it was a very popular among Swedish parents and children, who was looking for a time off from the cold vintner in Sweden.
And now almost seven years later its time for the next step, namely the new sister school in Huay Yang, where there is a huge Swedish community.
The new school will be named Huay Yang Sanuk.
The school will open 10. January 2011.
According to the headmaster for The Swedish School in Thailand, Eva Brandelius, the schools are small, with small classes.
That’s makes it very easy for the children to adapt to the tropical conditions.
The new school south of Hua Hin will follow the Swedish curriculum for Nursery & Kindergarten School, Primary School, and Secondary School.
On the long run, the people behind the school hope to turn their new project into a full year school like the sister school in Koh Lanta.
US Sant Fe student badges equipped with tracking devices
khou.com
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 6:39 PM
Updated Friday, Oct 1 at 6:50 PM
SANTA FE— Students in Santa Fe have to wear ID badges to class, complete with a built-in tracking device.
The Smart Badge program started this school year, and is getting mixed reviews from parents and students.
Patrick Mann is a senior and said he feels like he’s in prison.
“Normally, the one people you would track are say prisoners or somebody that’s done something very wrong,” Mann said.
All students at Santa Fe Junior High and Santa Fe High School have to wear the radio frequency IDs.
The sensors are in the ceiling on campus, but Mann said they keep tabs of you off campus too.
He said he got busted a few days ago.
“At that Shell Station, they can see exactly where I am,” Mann said. “I know that because the school cops came up there and said,
‘Hey, you need to get back to school. We tracked you over here.’”
The Santa Fe Independent School District got the idea from Spring ISD.
Spokesperson Patti Hanssard said the bottom line is safety and security.
“I don’t understand the concern piece there because basically that is our responsibility, to make sure that we have a safe and secure environment,” Hanssard said.
If students forget their badge, a temporary ID is $1 a day.
Replacement cards are $15 and the money goes back into the program, Hanssard said.
One parent said she just doesn’t like the school tracking her son’s every move.
Letters were sent home about the new badges and an update was printed in the district’s newsletter.
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Michelangelo Hid Anatomy Lesson in the Sistine Chapel Human Brainstem Is Depicted in Image of God, Neurosurgery Authors Argue
July 19, 2010 - Detailed analysis of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes reveals a secret that's been hidden for 500 years: an image of the human brainstem in a panel showing God at the beginning of Creation, according to an article in the May issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy.
Detailed analysis of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes reveals a secret that's been hidden for 500 years: an image of the human brainstem in a panel showing God at the beginning of Creation, according to an article in the May issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
"We propose that Michelangelo, a deeply religious man and an accomplished anatomist, intended to enhance the meaning of this iconographically critical panel and possibly document his anatomic accomplishments by concealing this sophisticated neuroanatomic rendering within the image of God," write medical illustrator Ian Suk, BSc, BMC, and neurosurgeon Rafael Tamargo, MD, of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore.
Image of Brainstem Concealed in Panel Showing Separation of Light from Darkness:
The "concealed neuroanatomy" is found in Michelangelo's painting of the Separation of Light from Darkness, one of a series of nine Sistine Chapel panels showing scenes from the Book of Genesis. According to Suk and Tamargo, "anatomically correct ventral [front] depiction" of the brainstem can be seen in God's neck.
The authors present several lines of evidence to support their contention. History shows that Michelangelo was an avid student of anatomy, who performed cadaver dissections throughout his life. "We speculate that during his numerous dissections, Michelangelo possibly dissected the brain and spinal cord and that over the years he probably acquired a sophisticated understanding of gross neuroanatomy," Suk and Tamargo write.
They buttress their argument by showing that the anatomy of God's neck is inaccurate. That discrepancy has been noticed before, with one previous critic suggesting that Michelangelo had painted God with a goiter (enlarged thyroid). Suk and Tamargo also show that the light source illuminating God's neck differs from that of the rest of the painting. For an artist of Michelangelo's anatomical and technical prowess, it's unlikely that these discrepancies were simple mistakes, Suk and Tamargo believe. They also note that God's beard appears "rolled up," as if to draw attention to the neck, whereas other panels show God with a long, flowing beard.
Suk and Tamargo aren't the first to suggest that Michelangelo included images of the brain in his Sistine Chapel frescoes. A previous researcher found an outline of the brain embedded in the famous panel depicting the Creation of Adam.
"We speculate that having used the brain motif successfully in the Creation of Adam almost a year earlier, Michelangelo wanted to once again associate the figure of God with a brain in the iconographically critical Separation of Light From Darkness," Suk and Tamargo write. They note the powerful symbolism of incorporating the human brain into a depiction of "the first act performed by God in the creation of the universe... situated immediately above the altar in the chapel."
The authors acknowledge "the perils of overinterpreting a masterpiece" -- and that not all art historians and other viewers will agree with their conclusions. However, they believe that a close analysis of the image, supported by the historical record, backs their interpretation: that Michelangelo "cleverly enhanced his depiction of God...with concealed images of the brain, and in this way celebrated not only the glory of God but also that of His most magnificent creation."
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Thailand's queen taken to Chulalongkorn Hospital...King also arrives
Queen Sirikit, the 78-year-old wife of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, was taken to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital late on Thursday, an official at the facility said, asking not to be named.
'She has been admitted to Chulalongkorn Hospital since 1600 GMT (12.00am S'pore time) last night,' the official said.
Her condition was unclear. There was no comment from the Royal Household Bureau.
King Bhumibol, who is the world's longest-reigning monarch and considered a demi-god by many Thais, was seen arriving at the hospital on Friday evening in a wheelchair with royal aides, as hospital staff knelt and bowed in respect.
The king was admitted to Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital in September 2009 for treatment of a respiratory condition, although he has appeared in public several times since. -- AFP
Friday, October 01, 2010
Thai students are still waiting for opportunities
If our neighbours can make great strides in improving education, why can't we?
Waiting for Superman", a documentary about an attempt to reform the education system in the US, has shifted public attention to the urgent need to improve the quality of American public schools. Directed by Davis Guggenheim, who made "An Inconvenient Truth", the new documentary is designed to raise awareness about education in the same way that "An Inconvenient Truth" brought environmental issues to a huge worldwide audience.
The main subject in the documentary is Geoffrey Canada, who was instrumental in improving education in Harlem, where the public schools were known to be of low quality. The title of the film comes from a Canada quote: "One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist."
Born and raised in the South Bronx, Canada added that his mother at first thought he was crying because she had told him something akin to the fact that Santa Claus was not real. However, he said, "I was crying because no one was coming with enough power to save us."
Now president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, Canada has inspired Americans with his organisation whose goal is to increase high school and college graduation rates among students in the neglected neighbourhood of the city. The documentary has sparked a much wider debate about the American education system. TV network NBC devoted a lot of airtime to the issue during its campaign for "Education Week".
Americans suddenly feel the need to improve their education system after Newsweek in August ranked the US down at number 11 in a list of countries with the best education. Many American columnists cried foul over the issue, and the documentary has only helped widen the debate.
Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of the Washington DC, public school system, is praised in the movie as a reformer who has managed to improve the overall quality of education in the district by closing down low-quality schools and firing bad teachers. But she has faced strong resistance from the teachers' union. Rhee's chief supporter, Mayor Adrian M Fenty, recently lost the Democratic primary election partly because of the union's anger at Rhee's tough approach.
US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has spent billions of dollars under the "Race to the Top" project to reward states with the best proven education records. But he has also faced criticism over whether the project will leave students in poor performing states with low quality schools.
Nonetheless, the public's enthusiasm for the documentary shows a shifting of concern to an issue that really matters. And it has drawn attention and resources to fix the problems. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg subsequently announced during Oprah Winfrey's talk show last week that he will donate US$100 million (about Bt3 billion) to improve public schools in Newark, New Jersey. All of a sudden it seems imperative - and smart, from a public-relations point of view - to help improve the quality of education.
This is great news for American students, but it is regrettable for their Thai counterparts that adults here have yet to pay attention to the nation's failing school system. This is even more important in light of the fact that our regional neighbours have progressed quickly over the past few years in improving their education systems. While Finland is ranked number one by Newsweek in its survey, three Asian nations made it into the top 10: South Korea was ranked second, Singapore fourth, and Japan fifth. We should not be surprised if Vietnam soon surpasses Thailand in Newsweek's ranking.
This is not to suggest that Thailand has to follow the others' models for improving their schools. There isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for different groups of children who will grow up and learn in different environments. Nonetheless, what is most urgent is official recognition of the fact that the standard of Thai schools needs considerable improvement. We also need a similar campaign to raise public awareness of the problems.
Instead, what we have seen so far is the continuing mismanagement of education policy, while massive budgets are spent ineffectively or the money finds its way into corrupt pockets. Incompetent officials shamelessly abuse our children's rights by denying them access to good education, in spite of readily available resources.
Education reform requires honest political leadership from those with good intentions toward the next generation. Thailand's leaders need to develop a vision for education and show the courage to make tough decisions and shake up the system. Is this too much for our children to ask for?
Unfortunately, Thai children are still desperately waiting for their superman to save the day.
American schools lax on cheating
The Sept. 1 edition of Education Week had a provocative commentary, “All my favorite students cheat,” by high school teacher Christopher L. Doyle. He and I agree that cheating is rife, but we don’t agree on what causes that.
He thinks students are protecting themselves against widespread insecurity in a declining America. I think the larger problem is that teachers so love and trust their students that the teachers become easy marks.
America used to be tough on cheaters. Before World War II, miscreants could be suspended, expelled or caned. Schools went soft in the 1960s, and although we have little data, cheating probably increased. In a 1995 survey by “Who’s Who Among American High School Students,” 76 percent of high-schoolers with at least B averages said they had cheated at least once. In suburban, upper-middle-class, high-achieving schools, such as the place Doyle still teaches or many Washington area schools, cheating is still common.
Some students want their schools to do something about it. In the mid-1990s, I served on a citizen-teacher-student governance committee at Scarsdale High School in Westchester County, N.Y. When our chairman asked whether anyone had any personal complaints about the school, our two student members raised a topic we had never addressed: cheating. Non-cheating students, they said, felt abused by lax enforcement. They blamed teachers for not proctoring their own exams. Some teachers, they said, left the room for the hour to sip coffee in the teachers lounge.
These were not state tests or the SAT, which require proctoring, but the regular course exams that would determine students’ report card grades. The Scarsdale assistant principal told me many teachers assumed their students would never cheat because they were such great kids.
Such deep belief in the inner goodness of American teens is not easily challenged. Erich Martel, a history teacher at Wilson High School in the District, was recently involuntarily transferred to another school in part because he used anti-cheating devices such as printing tests with fonts too small to be read from the next desk. His principal complained he was “creating an expectation that students will cheat” and ought to have more faith in the character of his pupils.
Schools here and throughout the country have struggled for years with the issue but made little progress. Attitudes differ on what constitutes cheating. In one survey of students at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., 97 percent said looking at another student’s exam was wrong. Only 46 percent, however, had the same view about asking someone in an earlier class what was on the test. Teachers I know encourage team projects, so their students ask why they can’t share their homework results. Multiple-choice tests are easier to cheat on, but they take less time to grade than essay exams. Essays are more difficult to copy.
Some surveys suggest pressure to get admitted to a favorite college can cause cheating, but so can adolescent sloth. One teacher at a New York school I visited said how proud she was that her students never took those illegal shortcuts. Hearing that, a student journalist quickly found two good students who had cheated on each of the teacher’s last three exams. The reporter asked them why. “It was just easier,” one said.
Despite the cheating, learning continues. Students have to know something to do well on heavily proctored exams, such as the SAT or Advanced Placement tests. Perhaps if we took cheating more seriously on exams that affect high school grades, our students would not cheat and would have more respect for us.
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Transforming Teaching And Learning Through ICT Optimisation
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Brunei Darussalam National Accreditation Council (BDNAC) Executive Secretary, Datin Hjh Khadijah Hj Akbar, in her welcoming note at the International Seminar on 'Transforming Teaching and Learning Through ICT Optimisation', yesterday expressed her belief that participants of the seminar will be able to grasp the knowledge, views, ideas and experiences presented by experts and professionals and incorporate them into their teaching and learning practices.
Held at the Kiulap Plaza Hotel, the seminar saw participation by local teachers from both government and private schools as well as educational staff from overseas that comprised policy makers at educational institutions, academics, educators, and specialists.
"It is hoped that the sub-themes and discussions to be carried out in this one day seminar may benefit all local and international participants, especially those who have similar issues related to the integration of ICT and its role in teaching-learning transformations, management and human resource development 'in ICT-based education, specifically the use of ICT in delivering courses or lessons in a lecture theatre or classroom environment".
The international seminar hosted by Brunei Darussalam was carried out in conjunction with the 13th Governing Board Members meeting of SEAMOLEC and was initiated with a recital of surah al-fatihah and a doa followed by a welcoming note presented by the BDNAC Executive Secretary as well as opening remarks by SEAMOLEC Director, Dr Gatot Hari Priowirjanto, shortly after which the seminar commenced in two parallel sessions.
Parallel Session 1 saw topics such as `ICT-pedagogy integration in teacher training', 'Revisiting the real purposes of learning and rethinking the potentials of ICT in supporting those purposes' and 'Designing online English abbreviation dictionary on tourism'. The topics were presented by Mr Om Setty of Cambodia, Dr Gilbert CW Fung of Brunei Darussalam and Ms Vu Thi Kim Oanh of Vietnam respectively.
Parallel Session 2 saw Professor Dr Rujhan Mustafa of Malaysia, Dr Phonekeo Chanthamaly of Laos and Dr Le Van Thanh of Vietnam, respectively present topics on `The integration of ICT into universities in Malaysia', `Strengthening distance education by integration of IT and the Distance Education Centre at the National University of Laos' and 'Cost-effectiveness of ICT-assisted learning material delivery at ODL providers in Vietnam'.
Parallel session 1 was concluded by Md Dina Mustafa, while parallel session 2 was wrapped up by Dr Tinsiri Siribodhi. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin
Beer Lao awards scholarship to 100 students
LBC Senior Deputy Managing Director Mr Sounthone Phommachack and NUOL Vice President Prof. Dr. Somsy Gnophanxay as well as relevant officials of both sides attended the Scholarship Award Ceremony for NUOL students, which was held at the NUOL’s Dongdok campus on Monday, Sept 27.
“Developing education in Laos is very import for the country. To lift the country from the poverty, it is necessary to provide more opportunities to the poor and disadvantaged people to help them gain an access to better education,” said Mr. Sounthone.
He said giving scholarship to students would help lessen tuition burden of their parents and expressed his belief that scholarship awardees would become an important force to drive the socio-economic development process in Laos after they graduate. “If our country has more smart and competent human resources the nation will be developed quickly like Singapore,” said Mr Sounthone.
Vice President Prof. Dr. Somsy said “Developing education is first priority of the Lao government as indicated in strategy of the Ministry of Education.”
LBC said the scholarship is part of the company’s commitment to improving and promoting educational development in the 47 poorest districts of the country.
Source: KPL Lao News Agency
September 29, 2010
British Council holds activities to celebrate the capital’s anniversary
The activities will include an exhibition entitled ‘Long Bien: In a City’ which explores the fabric of society in the Long Bien area through innovative photography, film and story telling, and an auction of some of the best contemporary Vietnamese visual artists will take place at the Metropole Hotel. All proceeds from the auction will go to a fund for grants for up and coming young artists in Vietnam.
A competition for the International Young Screen Entrepreneurs Award is also among the events honoring young Vietnamese talent in production, distribution, journalism, marketing, promotion and artistic management. A fashion and design show showcasing work from the best UK and Vietnamese fashion and design students will also be held, as well as the ’Global Citizens’ competition for 65,000 school children across Vietnam that recognises creativity, innovation, team-work and leadership skills, and fosters an international outlook.
“We believe this is a great historic milestone for Hanoi and Hanoians. Inspired by the spirit of the anniversary, our programme will contribute to the magnificent Thang Long-Hanoi Millennium celebrations, said Robin Rickard, the British Council’s Country Director in Vietnam.
“These events will showcase Hanoi as one of the most ancient capitals in Asia and also as a modern city that is dynamic and blessed with natural scenery and historical beauty nurtured by a splendid, unique and enduring culture,” he added.
Operating in over 100 nations and territories, the British Council began in Vietnam in 1993, focusing on education, English language teaching and the arts.