A Vietnamese professor in Britain and the “philosophy of the bus”
Minh Hong’s decision to move to Birmingham City University surprised many of her friends and students. According to the public, Bath is better than Birmingham City in terms of working conditions and fame. She has her own reasons for switching: “In Birmingham City, where there are more underprivileged students and two-thirds of them are black students, I think I can help them more.” A decision by nature Before she went to the UK to study, Minh Hong was a young teacher in Hanoi. Thinking back, she cannot forget the special memory of travel ing with her students to the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai in 2000. They had a volunteer mission at that time. For the young teacher, it was a special feeling to see the joy on the faces of the poor children when they received the postcards made by the students. She was also impressed when she saw the locals taking chairs to form a line from 4:00 pm, even though the students’ performance was scheduled to take place three hours later.