September 22, 2016 witnessed SEAMEO RETRAC 20th Anniversary Ceremony at the Center’s premises. This anniversary was celebrated in accordance with the Center’s 19th Governing Board Meeting and the Educational Forum on “Educational Innovation for an ASEAN Integration” which were carried out on September 22-23, 2016 The SEAMEO RETRAC 20th Anniversary Ceremony was privileged to have the presence of H.E. Phung
SEAMEO RETRAC’s 19th Governing Board Meeting was convened from September 22-23, 2016 at the Center. The Meeting was held back to back with the Educational Forum, namely “Education Innovation for an ASEAN Integration”. Attending the Meeting were Dr. Witaya Jeradechakul, former Director, SEAMEO Secretariat; Dr. Ethel Agnes P Valenzuela, Deputy Director, SEAMEO Secretariat; Governing Board Members and representatives coming from
On September 14, 2016, SEAMEO RETRAC signed an MOU with National Geographic Learning- Cengage Learning at the Center. In attendance were leaders and senior staff of the two institutions. The MOU will pave the way for collaborative activities in improving classroom English proficiency and English teaching methodology among public school teachers in Vietnam, exchanging scholarly ideas, information, materials, research activities
On Sunday, September 11th 2016, Kiddy Programs held lots of fun activities for all students on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Students from Kindergartens to Kids 1B were presented with a variety of lanterns such as superheroes, princesses and fruit-shaped lanterns. From Kids 2A to Youngsters, individually, students designed their own handmade bunny gift boxes to bring home and
From September 6-9, 2016, SEAMEO RETRAC in collaboration with Portland State University, and Arizona State University, USA under the sponsorship of USAid conducted a kick-off seminar for 35 university leaders and administrators in Vietnam focusing on building university-industry learning and development through innovation and technology. During the 4 days of training, participants familiarized themselves with such the topics as Leading
On August 11-13, 2016, SEAMEO RETRAC held the 7th Annual International Conference on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) on “Innovations in English Language Teaching and Learning” at Quy Nhon University’s premises, Binh Dinh Province. The conference was organized by SEAMEO RETRAC in collaboration with Curtin University and Quy Nhon University. More than 200 participants attended 44 presentations
On August 11-13, 2016, SEAMEO RETRAC held the 7th Annual International Conference on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) on “Innovations in English Language Teaching and Learning” at Quy Nhon University’s premises, Binh Dinh Province. The conference was organized by SEAMEO RETRAC in collaboration with Curtin University and Quy Nhon University. More than 200 participants attended 44 presentations
This program, jointly conducted by Curtin University (Australia) and SEAMEO RETRAC, is designed for professionals in the field of English language teaching. The program concentrates on teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) and also considers issues connected with ESL teaching in Vietnam and the region. The course has been designed for teachers intending to work in Vietnam and in
SEAMEO RETRAC in collaboration with Regional English Language Office (RELO) have successfully conducted two training workshops on teaching methodology “English Teaching: Best practices in ELT” for 60 lecturers of English in pedagogy and English specialists from DOETs from August 1st to 5th, 2016. The training workshops were delivered by Dr. Dawn Bikowski, Director of English Language Improvement Program, Linguistics Department from Ohio
In cooperation with British Columbia Council for International Education in Canada, SEAMEO RETRAC successfully organized the International Conference in “Towards Excellence in Leadership and Management in Higher Education” on July 28-29, 2016, at the Center’s premises. The conference was held with the aims of providing the participants who were educational leaders, practitioners, researchers and professional experts with the opportunities of