VietNamNet Bridge – Universities have been mushrooming in Vietnam under the people founded
schools. But most of them have low quality training and poor material
facilities, the report on supervising the implementation of the National
Assembly’s resolutions on university education reads.
In July 2012 – December 2012, the National Assembly’s
mission examined 50 out of the 419 university education establishments in
different localities throughout the country. To date, the National Assembly’s
Committee for Culture, Education, the Youth and Children, have received the
reports from 264 out of the 419 establishments and local authorities.
According to Dao Trong Thi, Chair of the committee, a
lot of positive changes have been seen over the last three years in the
establishment of new schools. The training quality has been highlighted as the
most important factor when considering licensing schools, while local
authorities did not just try to set up as more schools as possible.
However, Thi noted that since the watchdog agencies
and local authorities were not determined enough, the number of the schools
newly established in 2010 and 2011 was still relatively high.
He also noted that there exists the reasonable school
development programming. Most of the schools upgraded or newly built recently
are located in the developed economic regions or the advantageous localities,
such as the Red River Delta, with 13 schools, and the east of the southern
region, with six schools.
Meanwhile, the training majors have been designed not
based on the society’s demand and the antioanl human resource development
program. As a result, a high proportion of university graduates in some fields
have been left redundant, while Vietnam still lacks the workforce in many other
important business fields.
The monitoring report has also found out that
universities have failed to fulfill their commitments when applying for
establishing the schools. The investors could only fulfill 50 percent of what
they have promised. Especially, the Phu Tho Economics Junior College, for
example, has only done 10 percent of its commitments on upgrading the material
facilities of the school.
Regarding the teaching staff, the schools all have
promised to recruit enough permanent lecturers to ensure the high quality of
the training (the permanent lecturers have to ensure to undertake 70 percent of
the curriculums).
However, in fact, Thanh Dong, Dong A Technology
Universities, the Rubber Industry Junior College, and the Quang Ngai Technical
Industry Junior College have been found as having less than 50 permanent
lecturers.
Due to the lack of the financial capability, the poor
teaching staff and bad material facilities, most of the people founded schools
have been focusing on enrolling students for the training majors which do not
require high investments and complicated laboratories or equipments, such as
business administration, finance and banking, and foreign languages.
Citing too many problems existing in the university
education, the committee believes that it would be better to dissolve the low
quality schools to better provide the university education. Only the schools
which can meet the requirements in the material facilities and training quality
can exist to be sure that the schools can produce high qualification graduates.
However, observers said it would be not easy to
dissolve the schools. In recent years, the Ministry of Education and Training
has become the aiming point of the criticism from people founded schools which
say that the ministry, though being the “father” of the school, has abandoned
the child, leaving the schools in serious thirst for students.
Nguyen Thao – Nguyen Hien
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