VietNamNet Bridge – While the Ministry of Education and
Training (MOET) in May 2012, imposed punishment and prohibited Melior Business
School providing university and junior college training services, in August
2012, the HCM City Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs granted
the license allowing the school providing vocational training services.
Mismanagement lends a hand to crime
By granting the license, the
labor department has given a reason to the school to exist, collect tuitions
from learners and… disappear.
In May 2012, when releasing the
decision on imposing punishment on Melior School, MOET sent a dispatch to the
HCM City People’s Committee, requesting to supervise the implementation of the
decision.
However, on October 11, MOET’s
inspectors found out that the school still provided university and junior
college training services, according to Thanh Nien. Therefore, they released a
decision on imposing punishment for the second time, while requesting the
city’s authorities to revoke the licenses granted before to Melior and three
other schools, namely SIBME, ERC and IRA.
Only on October 27, the HCM City
People’s Committee released a document to the education, labor, planning and
investment departments, and the police, instructing to revoke the licenses.
The education department was
asked to lead the works. Thirteen days later (November 9), did the department
asked for the cooperation from other relevant departments.
The complicated procedures have
provided a “golden opportunity” to Melior’s leaders to exist and appropriate
learners’ money.
After the news about the escape
of Melior’s leaders, Pham Ngoc Thanh, Deputy Director of the HCM City Education
and Training Department, when asked what the department would do, answered the
reporters that he was still consulting with relevant departments.
Meanwhile, the labor department,
when asked why it still granted license to Melior after the MOET’s punishment
decision, said that the school then promised to conduct remedial treatment.
As such, when relevant
departments were still busy meeting to discuss the proposal by MOET to revoke
the licenses of the three schools, Melior’s leader had enough time to collect
money and escape.
Pham Ngoc Thanh, Deputy Director
of the HCM City Education and Training Department explained that the department
only “takes care” for foreign and informatics centers, while vocational schools
and centers are licensed by the labor department.
Foreign director escaped, management agencies didn’t know
On November 12, hundreds of
students gathered at the school to ask money back after hearing about the
escape of Cheng Sim Kok, Director of the school.
Vo Phuoc Nguyen, a senior
official of the HCM City Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs,
on November 13 said in order to protect learners’ interest, the department on
November 12 sent a dispatch to the city’s authorities requesting to instruct
relevant agencies to block the bank account of Melior Vietnam Company Ltd and
prevent Cheng Sim Kok’s exit from the country.
However, the company’s bank
account has become empty, while the director had left Vietnam before the
information about the school close was spread out.
Also according to Nguyen,
relevant departments all have said that it is necessary to force the leaders of
Melior School to pay tuitions back to learners. However, since the company’s
representative has escaped, the only thing the agencies can do is to ask for
the help of the Singaporean Consulate General in tracking down Cheng Sim Kok.
Le Huyen
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