📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Hanoi Vocational College is located Tay Mo commune, Tu Liem District, about 15 km from Hanoi city centre. One of the increasing labour market requirements is the English language skills and usually this sector of the population have a very little chance to learn foreign languages or to meet foreigners to practice English and exchange communication skills.
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.
Hanoi Vocational College of High Technology teaches over 1000 students from 18 to 21 years old, according with the Ministry of Labour-Invalids and Social Affairs plan. The main purpose is to provide multi-level vocational services of high quality to meet the labor demands, equipping students with effective and practical professional skills related on computer repairing, computer programming, metal works and accounting, in different levels of professionalism. The College provides as well communicative English skills 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 will be expected to help with the followings:
Improving listening and speaking skills for students.
Improving students’ competency in communication.
Teaching students following the university’s curriculum.
Organizing games and other activities in classrooms or outdoor in more flexible classes.
Normally volunteers will teach about 30 hours a week. No placements available in summer time (June – July-August).
Travel to work: about 1 hour by bus.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a dormitory with rooms shared with other volunteers. Living conditions will be Vietnamese standard with separate bathroom, single bed with mattress.
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.
📍 About the location
The college is located in Tay Mo, Tu Liem, which is about 15km from the city center.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers should pay a program fee of 400USD for the first 2 weeks and 100USD for each week after. This is to cover airport pick-up, orientation, food and accommodation, transportation to work as well as regular support from VPV team.