The Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry has put into operation a
system that allows students to judge their lecturers via its website.
Dr Nguyen Duc Minh, academic
affairs chief, said that students have to rate the teaching quality of their
instructors before they can see their end-of-semester test scores on the site.
Criteria used in this grading
scheme include lecture preparations, textbooks, related materials, pedagogical
skills, and instructions on self-study, among others.
* A Ho Chi Minh City University
has recently fired a dean following allegations of his trading in test
questions.
Professor Nguyen Tan Dac, vice
president of Hong Bang University, said that he signed a decision to sack Dang
Ngoc Hoang, the former Dean of the Political Theory Department, even though the
university has failed to gather concrete evidence for Hoang’s alleged
wrongdoings.
“We gave him the axe because a
huge number of students had written to the school management saying that Hoang
forced them to pay him to get test questions at his home,” a school official
explained. “They added that the former dean found fault with or even failed
anyone who disobeyed his rules.”
* Authorities in the central city
of Da Nang have opened the door again to graduates of part-time training
programs after one year of banning them from entering the civil service.
The Da Nang Department of
Internal Affairs said in a recent civil servant recruitment announcement that
it will accept applications from candidates who have graduated from a part-time
training program.
Last year Da Nang said it would
not consider part-time program graduates when looking for civil servants.
In Vietnam, part-time courses
usually offer much lower education quality than full-time equivalents.
* A private university in Ho Chi
Minh City has just found a new strategic stakeholder to save itself from being
dissolved following facility and enrollment difficulties.
Van Hien University has been
grappling with low applicant numbers over the last few years, and was recently
banned from recruiting new students in the 2012-13 academic year, which started
in early September, as it failed to meet national teaching space and faculty
size requirements.
The school called for funding
from investors and the Ho Chi Minh City-based Hung Hau Development Joint Stock
Company then decided to give it a helping hand.
The firm, specializing in
seafood, has initially agreed to invest VND75 billion (US$3.6) to buy a campus
and build offices and lecture halls for the university in the near future.
The Ministry of Education and
Training, which imposed the ban on Van Hien, has recently warned that those
schools which were prohibited from accepting new enrollees this year for their
failure to meet national standards will be shut down completely if they cannot
manage to stay up to par by next year.
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