Partnerships between researchers and conservation practitioners are essential for gathering
the information needed to diagnose conservation problems and to determine what actions …

The ethnic groups associated with the Language Families arrived in Laos at different
periods of history, with earlier arrivals represented by the Austro-Asiatic language groups …

In late 2015, the Lao government finalized its five-year National Socio-economic
Development Plan 2016–2020 (NSEDP) to assist Lao PDR in meeting its goal of graduating …

During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force secretly trained pilots from Laos, skirting Lao
neutrality in order to bolster the Royal Lao Air Force and their own war efforts. Beginning in …

Laos is the only Southeast Asian country without a sea coast. Mountain ranges and the
Mekong River provide both protection and isolation. Traditionally literacy was the preserve …

This paper reports on an ethnographic exploration of the culture of institutional governance
at one of the five public universities in Laos. Drawing on documentary materials, on-site …

While internationalization has been a strategic driver in transforming higher education in
universities across the world, little research has investigated how universities in less …

The aim of this book is to provide both the general reader and the education specialist with a
comprehensive understanding of the education system in the Lao People's Democratic …

The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is not as well-known as other ASEAN
member states, possibly because of its relatively small population of about 7 million and the …

This chapter covers post-secondary non-tertiary and tertiary education programs under the
Department of Higher Education (DHE) in the Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES). The …