DTiNews will stage a live, online forum entitled “UK Education - The best bang for your buck”, with the cooperation of ISC-UKEAS, on October 7.
The forum is aimed to help clear away any worries about the cost of studying aboard in the U.K., one of the main obstacles to study abroad in many people\'s minds. It will also help address the practical issues surrounding studying in the UK, including accommodation and work in the country.
A panel will consist of Simon A. Booth, Stephanie Niven, Carl Owen, Chu Hoang Thang. A team from DTiNews will also be available for three hours beginning at 8:30am to help interpret and answer questions.
The forum will be in both Vietnamese and English. Those who would like to participate are encouraged to send their questions here.
Answers to all questions will be immediately translated so that both English and Vietnamese speakers can read them.
After the forum, ISC-UKEAS will organise education exhibitions in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in order to offer study opportunities to Vietnamese students who may wish to study at universities and colleges throughout the U.K.
Profiles of forum participators:
Simon Booth
Director of International Academic Relations Affairs, Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom.
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| Simon Booth |
He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Reading in 1975. He has been on the faculty at Strathclyde University Business School, and Henley Business School, University of Reading. He was made a Professor at Voronesh State Agricultural University (Russia) in 1996, and appointed Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang University (China) in 2007. He has been the President and Trustee of the John Lloyd Huck Charitable Foundation (Great Britain). He is the Executive Co-Director of the Joint Centre for International Management and Entrepreneurship Development.
He also served as a consultant to many companies, including Toshiba, CTMS, TV Energy and Thames Water. Most recently he was an advisor to the ESRC for the Professorial Fellowship Scheme 2006 -7.
He has directed major European Commission, ESRC and DTI research projects and has successfully completed research contracts amounting to over £2 million in the last ten years. He is currently part of an international team which has been awarded 1.3 million euros to research renewable energy futures (IEE Directorate, European Commission). He is also the UK coordinator for the GLOBE research project.
In 2005 he was the joint winner of the M. Scott Myers Award of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology. In 2009 he was jointly awarded the American Psychological Association’s Ursula Geislen Prize for the best contribution to global psychology. He has been awarded scholarships by the Social Science Research Council (UK), the International Communications Agency (USA) and the Foreign Office (UK). He was a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contingency and Crisis Management and of the Chinese Journal of Human Resource Management.
Also an author, he has published many books.
Stephanie Niven
Head of International Academic Relations Affairs, University of Stirling, United Kingdom.
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| Stephanie Niven |
She has worked in the field of international education for 11 years, and is currently head of International Partnerships at the University of Stirling. Prior to this she held a number of international recruitment posts. Her previous management experience includes the North American, African and Asian markets for the University of Stirling; and study abroad/exchange and international summer school activity.
In addition to a Master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh, Stephanie holds professional international marketing and education qualifications and has spent extended periods of time living and teaching internationally in Japan, the USA and New Zealand before settling to a career in the field of international university education in Scotland. She has been Secretary to the North American Recruitment Group, and is currently part of select group tasked with developing the University of Stirling’s internationalisation strategy.
Carl Owen
Country manager for ISC-UKEAS from May 2008 – Present
| 1987-91 | London Southbank University, London, England | BSc (Hons) ‘2:2’ |
| Feb 1999 | Institute of Continuing and TESOL, Education. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia | Cambridge CELTA (Pass ‘B’) |
| Dec 2005 | International Teacher Training College Bournemouth, England | Cambridge DELTA (Pass, Pass, Distinction) |
Carl’s background in is English Language teaching, particularly in teaching academic English for university preparation as well as IELTS and study skills. He spent most of his time since 1991 in Asia, working in in Japan, Australia (University of Queensland) and Taiwan, where he lived for 14 years. There he became fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Carl worked for UKEAS in Taiwan from 2005 to 2008, and since then has bee Country Manager for ISC-UKEAS in Vietnam.
Carl Owen
In his role as Country Manager at ISC-UKEAS Carl enjoys the challenge of providing a service to students that is complete, personable, impartial and tailored to each student’s needs and proclivities. Carl says, ‘Making the choice of investing such a large sum of money in your overseas study is an important choice, and we provide students with the right information and a large choice of institutions and courses in order to find the ‘best fit’ for a study pathway that will lead to promising career opportunities both in Vietnam and abroad.’
Chu Hoang Thang got MSc Finance by 2010 at University of Portsmouth).
Chu Hoang Thang
