“Global English: Teaching English in Asia” – Approaches to a complex enterprise

Winter term 2016/17 In the winter semester 2016/17, it was Team IV‘s turn to be prepared for “Teaching English in Laos” by a varied teaching and workshop programme with Prof. Martin, like the other three teams before. Like them, we met in our free time, on Wednesday evenings in our case, and we were taken […]

This is Team V! 18 September 2017 – 15 February 2018

This is Team V! Chosen by the project leader Johannes Zeck of the Angels for Children Foundation, Prof. Isabel Martin of the University of Education Karlsruhe, and the International Office of the university, to support pupils, students, and teachers in Laos at four different institutions – the Lao-German Technical College, Ban Phang Heng Secondary School, […]

Education in Laos (Part II) – Parallel education systems during the Lao Civil War (1954 -1975)

Introduction and historical background After Part I of the series about education in Laos described the beginning of a formalized school system in Laos, this second background article focuses on the two parallel education systems which were implemented in Laos between the Lao independence from France in 1954 and the Pathet Lao communist coup in […]