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International Women’s Day Celebration at Kiddy Programs
On March 08, 2015, SEAMEO RETRAC organized various craft activities at Kiddy Programs to celebrate the International Women’s Day. Students aged from 04 to 08 expressed their family love and gratitude through making beautiful family trees. The others aged from 09 to 15 made paper flower vases and bouquet cards for their grandmothers, mothers, teachers, sisters or friends. The beautiful
Visit to Vietnamese Ao Dai Museum
On the occasion of 105th International Women’s Day (from March 08, 1910 to March 08, 2015), SEAMEO RETRAC Labor Union organized a trip to Vietnamese Ao Dai Musem at Long Thuan Ward, District 9, Ho Chi Minh City for all the Center’s staff. Participants felt excited with what they saw and learned about the Vietnamese traditional long dress (Ao dai).
SEAMEO RETRAC Annual Staff Meeting
SEAMEO RETRAC organized its annual staff meeting for the Center’s entire full-time working staff on January 27, 2015. The purpose of the meeting was to review the Center’s activities in 2014 and to map out plans for the Center in 2015, to award staff with excellent working performance in 2014, to discuss internal expenditure guidelines in 2015, and to elect
Visit of H.E. Prof. Dr. Pham Vu Luan, SEAMEO Council President cum Minister of Education and Training, Vietnam and the Delegation
On February 13, 2015, H.E. Prof. Dr. Pham Vu Luan, SEAMEO Council President cum Minister of Education and Training, Vietnam and the Delegation paid their visit to SEAMEO RETRAC. At the welcome ceremony, Dr. Ho Thanh My Phuong, SEAMEO RETRAC Director, briefed the President and the Delegation on the Center’s accomplishments since 2010 and plans for action in upcoming years
DFS Faculty Meeting in 2015
Division of Foreign Studies (DFS) organized a periodical faculty meeting on February 13, 2015. The meeting aimed to give the faculty an update on the training programs, curricula, textbooks, and issues related to the teachers, to review DFS academic activities in 2014 and to propose an action plan for the development of the Division in 2015. The agenda of the
Educational Leadership and Management Training Workshop for ENEDA Members
A training course in educational leadership and management was conducted by SEAMEO RETRAC in cooperation with the Entrepreneurship Educators’ Association of the Philippines (ENEDA) at the Center’s premises from January 05 to 10, 2015. Participants of the course were 30 educational leaders of universities, colleges and other educational institutions in the Philippines. The course was developed aiming at updating the
Training Workshop on Item Writing for the Vietnamese Test of English Language Proficiency (VSTEP) for Levels from 03 to 05 on the Vietnamese Foreign Language Proficiency Framework
At the invitation from the Vietnam’s National Foreign Languages 2020 Project (NFL 2020 Project), six staff and teachers from SEAMEO RETRAC attended the training workshop on Item Writing for the Vietnamese Test of English Language Proficiency (VSTEP) for Levels from 03 to 05 on the Vietnamese Foreign Language Proficiency Framework at The University of Languages and International Studies (ULIS), Ha
Celebrating Christmas Activities
On December 20, 2014, SEAMEO RETRAC organized Christmas activities for 2,500 students of Kiddy Programs. This annual festival always attracted all students with several interesting activities. Among the activities, students aged from 04 to 07 colored their favorite Christmas pictures. Students aged from 08 to 15 were interested in making models of snowman, X’mas tree and stocking with their wishes
Training in English Language Proficiency and Educational Leadership and Management for IFEAD Staff (Lao PDR)
SEAMEO RETRAC successfully conducted the training course on English Language Proficiency and Educational Leadership and Management for staff of the Institute for Educational Administration Development (IFEAD), Lao PDR from November 24 to December 19, 2014. The course aimed to assist IFEAD to improve its master trainers’ and staff members’ English language competency and to strengthen their knowledge and skills in
Expert Meeting on “Tracking Mechanism for Unreached Populations”
SEAMEO RETRAC as assigned by Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training hosted the Expert Meeting on December 15, 2014 at the Center’s premise. The meeting was the first stage of the Regional Project entitled “Tracking Mechanism for Unreached Populations”. Attending at the meeting were the experts coming from UNESCO Bangkok, Thailand; Ministry of Education and Sports, Lao PDR; Mr. Nguyen
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