📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE), founded in 1951, strives constantly to sustain and enhance its quality in teaching, research, public service and educational development. HNUE offers a full range of degree programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral and professional levels and pursues a board agenda of research and creative activities.
HNUE has a wide range of faculities focusing on different fields. Faculty of Chemistry trains students to become future chemists or teachers of Chemistry. The students are between 18 and 22 years old with basic level of English.
Main Aims and Activities
The aim of the program is to provide English language speaking environment for students and develop English communicative skills for labour export market.
The university provides as well basic communicative English lessons for the students in order to meet the high demand of the society in the integration process, especially with the labour export market.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers are expected to be the teaching assistants in the classes with the support of Vietnamese Teachers. The possible tasks of the volunteers may include (depending on volunteers’ capacity and expectation):
• Preparing lesson plans with Vietnamese teachers of English
• Assisting in English classes with pronunciation, speaking and listening skills
• Organizing and participating in side activities for students
• Participating in seminar/conference organization with lecturer and students
• Assisting in some researching projects
Working time will be from 8.00 am to 4:30 pm but it is changeable, depending on the schedule of specific classes/faculty. Volunteers work approximately 25- 30 hours per week including in-class activities, weekly meetings with the team and other outdoor/extra activities.
No placements available in summer time (June – July-August).
Travel to work: about 30 minutes walking from the volunteer house.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a dormitory with rooms shared with other volunteers. Living conditions will be Vietnamese standard with shared bathroom, shared room with bunk-beds. Mattress, blanket, pillow and mosquito net are provided.
Food will be provided at accommodation. Meals will be mostly local food, which vary from the daily cooking schedule. Volunteers, especially those who are vegetarian may be required to do some cooking by themselves. During working-days, volunteers can go back to the volunteer house for lunch or eat out.
📍 About the location
Address: 144 Xuan Thuy Street, Cau Giay district, Ha Noi. About 5km from the city center.
ℹ️ Additional information
The program fee is 300Euro for the first two weeks and then 75Euro for each week after. The fee is to cover airport pickup, orientation, project visit, food and lodging, public transportation to work, regular support and coordination from local team.