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From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English.
A new report says more and more international students are attending colleges and universities in the United States. It also notes a large increase in the number of international students from China.
These findings are from the latest edition of the Open Doors Report. The report is a joint project of the State Department and the Institute of International Education, a non-profit educational and training organization.
The report documents the record number of international students in the United States during the twenty-eleven, twenty-twelve school year. It says more than seven hundred sixty-four thousand four-hundred such students were attending American colleges and universities during that period. That represents an increase of almost six percent compared to one year earlier.
By comparison, the number of Americans studying overseas increased by one percent.
The report says one hundred ninety-four thousand students at American colleges and universities were from China. That is an increase of more than twenty-three percent over the year before.
Peggy Blumenthal is an aide to the president of the Institute of International Education. She described the effect of the increase in Chinese students.
“Now they have been coming for some time. But this year was the highest level ever, and it really showed in the figures, driving the whole global, international undergraduate enrollment to be higher than the graduate students.”
She says many Chinese families are able to pay for the highest-quality education for their children. The children mainly choose to study in America.
“We know many of them have enough income to be able to afford to send them anywhere in the world that they want to go. And for the most part, looking around the world, Chinese students still prefer to come to the United States as their destination of choice.”
Chinese students are not the only ones who want to attend American colleges and universities. After China, India sends the second largest number of students to the United States for higher education. India has about one hundred thousand students in American schools. South Korea is third with about seventy two thousand students.
Why do so many foreign students study in the United States? Peggy Blumenthal provides one reason.
“The advantage America has is that we have a huge system and a very diverse system. So there are over four thousand universities and colleges in the United States, and what that tells us is there is still a lot of room to host international students.”
Foreign students represent less than four percent of the total student population in American higher education. Ms. Blumenthal says this means there is still a lot of room for international students.
And from Learning English, that’s the VOA Special English Education Report. I’m Bob Doughty.
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance. The purpose is to let children learn from experience (1) at an age when financial mistakes are not very costly.
(1) rút ra bài học từ kinh nghiệm
The amount of money that parents give to their children to spend as they wish differs from family to family. Timing is another consideration. Some children get a weekly allowance. Others get a monthly allowance.
In any case, parents should make clear what, if anything, the child is expected to pay for with the money.
At first, young children may spend all of their allowance soon after they receive it. If they do this, they will learn the hard way (2) that spending must be done within a budget. Parents are usually advised not to offer more money until the next allowance.
(2) thấm thía rằng
The object is to show young people that a budget demands choices between spending and saving. Older children may be responsible enough to save money for larger costs, like clothing or electronics.
Many people who have written on the subject of allowances say it is not a good idea to pay your child for work around the home. These jobs are a normal part of family life.
Paying children to do extra work around the house, however, can be useful. It can even provide an understanding of how a business works.
Allowances give children a chance to experience the things they can do with money. They can share it in the form of gifts or giving to a good cause (3). They can spend it by buying things they want. Or they can save and maybe even invest it.
(3) vì mục đích thiện nguyện
Saving helps children understand that costly goals require sacrifice: you have to cut costs and plan for the future.
Requiring children to save part of their allowance can also open the door to future saving and investing. Many banks offer services to help children and teenagers learn about personal finance.
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Nhân dịp Lễ Tạ Ơn (Thanksgiving) vừa qua, trang web www.lifehacker.com đã liệt kê 50 phần mềm miễn phí hữu dụng nhất. Sau đây mình xin tóm lược lại 1 số phần mềm trong danh sách đó mà mình đang sử dụng.
1. Dropbox
Phần mềm nổi tiếng nhất để lưu trữ và đồng bộ dữ liệu bằng công nghệ đám mây.
Giả sử bạn 1 1 laptop ở công ty, 1 PC ở nhà, 1 Ipad, 1 Iphone, 1 Ipod, vvv… Dropbox sẽ giúp bạn làm cho dữ liệu trên tất cả các thiết bị trên luôn giống nhau.
Đặc biệt, mình vừa được biết hiện nay các bạn dùng Smartphone Samsung có thể đăng ký account Dropbox với dung lượng miễn phí 50GB – quá tuyệt.
Trình duyệt miễn phí tốt nhất hiện nay.
3. Firefox
Trình duyệt miễn phí nổi tiếng nhất hiện nay.
4. Evernote
Phần mềm tạo Notes miễn phí, dùng công nghệ đám mây.
Giả sử bạn hay lướt web và muốn lưu lại một số trang để sau này xem lại – Evernote sẽ là lựa chọn tối ưu hiện nay.
5. Skype
Phần mềm gọi điện thoại và video chat miễn phí tốt nhất.
6. Google maps
Bản đồ online tốt nhất.
7. Gmail
Dịch vụ email miễn phí tốt nhất.
8. Google Drive
Dịch vụ lưu trữ dữ liệu online của Google
Lịch làm việc online tốt nhất.
10. VLC
Phần mềm xem video / nghe nhạc tốt nhất.
11. TeamViewer
Phần mềm Truy cập máy tính từ xa dễ sử dụng nhất.
12. uTorrent
Phần mềm tải file torrent tốt nhất.
13. CCleaner
Phần mềm dọn dẹp hệ thống tốt nhất.
14. VirtualBox
Phần mềm tạo máy ảo tốt nhất.
15. 7-Zip
Phần mềm nén/giải nén mạnh nhất.
Các bạn có thể xem danh sách đầy đủ 50 phần mềm ở đây.
Có bao nhiêu phần mềm bạn đang dùng nằm trong vào danh sách này?
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