Universities
around the country are set to discontinue many graduate courses this year after
getting extremely small numbers of applications for them.
Dr Nguyen Van De, president of Dong Thap
University, said the school would definitely scrap six majors, explaining that
candidates scored so badly in July’s national university entrance exams that
few qualified for the courses.
An Giang University will scrap many majors
this year, including training of high-school teachers, according to Hoang Xuan
Quang, its vice president.
Some graduate courses in agriculture and
mechanical engineering offered by Nong Lam (Agriculture and Forestry)
University in Ho Chi Minh City, and social sciences courses at Van Hien and
Hung Vuong Universities will meet with a similar fate.
Last year Van Hien had cancelled cultural
studies and Vietnamese studies.
Other reasons too have been put forward for
the problem.
Dr Vu Thi Phuong Anh of the association of
non-public junior colleges and universities believed the discrepancy between
the number of schools and applicants was to blame for this problem.
While many new universities opened each year,
the number of applicants only rose marginally, she said.
An official from a university in the Mekong
Delta said many students rejected certain majors because of poor job prospects
after graduation.
Assoc Prof Dr Nguyen Thien Tong, vice
president of the Mekong University in the delta province of Vinh Long, blamed
it on the country’s master plan for the development of higher education.
The tendency to upgrade junior colleges into
universities had created a large number of seats and worsened the situation, he
added.
The University of Da Nang has decided for the
second year in a row to shut down two graduate courses in political economy and
statistics-IT since no one qualified for them.
Pham Van Dong University in the central
province of Quang Ngai has scrapped its banking major this year. Only one
candidate became eligible for it.
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