VietNamNet Bridge - More and more students refuse to write theses to graduate universities,
though only excellent students are selected to do that.
Attending graduation exams or defending theses has
become a hot topic for discussion on students’ forums recently.
N, a fourth year student of the HCM City Economics and
Finance University, said she and some other classmates have refused to write
dissertations.
“Even if we get 10 marks for the dissertation, we
would not be able to obtain the university degrees at good level. Meanwhile, we
would have to spend much more time and efforts to write theses than preparing for
the graduation exams,” N explained.
An, who finished the Van Lang University in 2011, said
he could meet the requirements to be selected to the group of students to
defend graduation theses. However, his friends advised him to attend the exams
instead, so as to save time and money.
“I think I made a right decision then. It was not too
stressful to attend the exams,” he said.
Tens of students of the HCM City Information
Technology University joined a debate on whether to defend theses or attend the
graduation exams. Some said that the students who defend theses for the
graduation would be favored by the employers than the other students.
Meanwhile, other students believe that they would
rather to attend the exams, because they would have the opportunity to continue
learning, which would be useful for their future jobs.
Dr. Duong Anh Duc, President of the HCM City
Information Technology University, has confirmed that many students of the
school have refused to make theses.
Duc explained that writing theses is a way of
accumulating learning credits. If students don’t write theses, they would have
to continue learning to obtain 10 more credits. The training would provide
practical knowledge that serves their future jobs.
Dr. Nguyen Van Ngai from the HCM City Agriculture and
Forestry University also confirmed that students nowadays are not interested in
writing theses anymore, because they cannot see big benefits of the works.
Meanwhile, many other students do not want to write
theses just because they don’t find it interesting.
Theses, in principle, could be seen as small
scientific research works, which require the creativeness and hard work of the
authors.
However, the students complained that under the
current mechanism, they don’t have the opportunities to show their
creativeness. In general, students can only write the theses in the themes
suggested by the lecturers who guide them, while in most cases, their suggested
theses would not be accepted by the lecturers.
A lecturer of a university admitted that he has to
guide a lot of students to write theses at the same time; therefore, he is
reluctant to deal with a new topic.
“It would be better to deal with the topic you are
very keen at and you have many documents about it. If you have to deal with an
unfamiliar issue, you would have to spend time to look for documents and search
information,” he explained.
The Banking Faculty of the HCM City economics schools
had 1,200 students graduating in 2003-2011, while there were 30 lecturers in
the faculty. This meant that a lecturer had to guide 45 students to write
theses a year.
Tien Phong
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