Arran Hamilton

As parents and students all over Vietnam try to navigate through the ongoing education reform, VnExpress International would like to introduce the solution proposed by Dr. Arran Hamilton from the British Council, who advises against simply adopting models of "successful countries".

Sir Walter Raleigh, the much celebrated English adventurer, poet and navigator, "discovered" both tobacco and potatoes in Americas in the late 1580s and brought them back to England. Raleigh helped to make smoking popular. It is even said that he persuaded Queen Elizabeth I to take her first puff, although it’s not clear whether she inhaled.