Beijing to Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City....

Today we had a busy day in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. We reviewed possibilities with the VACC with whom Seneca signed a MOU two years ago. The college system in Vietnam is rapidly growing to respond to the changing labor markets needs of this fast moving economy.

Only at the end of the meeting did we notice that one of our Vietnamese colleagues had been sitting barefoot on the meeting table. That is how I want to be in my office!!!

Afterwards we were at a national TV news show (photos later) and then we visited an IT university in an economic development zone where the government hopes to create the Vietnamese version of a Silicon Valley. We had dinner with a few students from Brunei and Nigeria, studying here in Vietnam but also interested to come for post-graduate studies to Seneca. Fast changing world it is!

Tomorrow we fly to Ho Chi Minh City (as the Saigon of the past is now named.....).