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With his centralization of power, Secretary General Xi Jinping is considered the most powerful leader since Secretary General Deng Xiaoping.

Without a rapid change in the structure of university education and the approach to higher education, the implications will be big.

Dr. Le Viet Quoc and Mr. Ben Wilkinson bring experience and personal backgrounds that aid their passion in helping found Vietnam’s first undergraduate liberal arts university.
 

“I am thrilled to be joining FUV to work with students to create innovative programs and experiences that break down traditional boundaries of higher education.”

Meet, love, leave each other. The law of time does not leave anyone, this sky also has immense vastness, separation between humans. However, I still believe that we will meet again.

The idea of the training center that would become FETP emerged even before the embargo was lifted between Vietnam and the United States. Anyone who is attached to the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program (FETP) (the forerunner of the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management) does not forget the historical moment of this program: before […]

Fulbright University Vietnam announced the expansion of its Board of Trustees by adding two members who will bring a wealth of experience to the university.

For more than three decades before I became president of Harvard, I worked as a scholar and teacher of history. 

FUV Chief Academic Officer believes in the future of this institution and hopes to shape it.

Fulbright held its first Admissions Day event in Ho Chi Minh City. The event was held two days after the Fulbright announced the opening of its undergraduate application for the Co-Design Year. The Co-Design Year 2018-2019 is a unique and special opportunity for higher education in Vietnam. 50 young people will be selected to participate […]

“University education nowadays is not limited to concrete buildings, where knowledge is delivered from the professors to the students. The classroom should be extended to the rice fields in the Mekong Delta, the Northern mountainous areas, or the coastal villages in the Central part of Vietnam. After four years at Fulbright, we hope our students […]

The first breakthrough of this effort was in the budget bill in 1991 when the first $300,000 for scholarships for Vietnamese students was added (Harvard University then contributed additional $300,000). The breakthrough was made by John Kerry along with the support of veterans like John McCain, and Richard Kessler.

I’m eating a bowl of bun cha by the lake in Tuyen Quang city and I’m amazed. Not because

Many of my students would ask me what the fastest way to learn English is. I was always surprised because I certainly had no trick up my sleeve to make them suddenly fluent. And if I did, I would have shared it long ago. What surprised me more was how the students more often than […]

It was very hard on my parents to watch me leave home and move across the world when I was still 14. During those years I saw my family only infrequently and it was lonely.   On my father’s first day of class, the professor cold called my father and asked him for his opinion on […]

We are thrilled that Ambassador Osius will stay in Vietnam and join FUV as our vice president

Fulbright University Vietnam held a meeting where Fulbright reached out to many influential members of society who have experience in the field of education. Chief Academic Officer Dr. Ryan Derby-Talbot and Fulbright University Vietnam President Dam Bich Thuy shared their passion for and perspectives on liberal arts, the purpose of a university education, and how […]

We are thrilled that Ambassador Osius will stay in Vietnam and join FUV as our vice president

We are thrilled that Ambassador Osius will stay in Vietnam and join FUV as our vice president

Dr. Ryan Derby-Talbot has been appointed Chief Academic Officer (CAO) of Fulbright University Vietnam (Fulbright), Vietnam’s first, independent, nonprofit university. The Fulbright Board of Trustees, advised by a search committee composed of trustees of the University and representatives of the Trust for University Innovation in Vietnam, the US nonprofit supporting Fulbright, selected Dr. Derby-Talbot after […]