Part 1: Students turn their back to aquatic resources development studies
In the 2011-2012 academic year, the Resources Development Faculty of the Nha Trang University needs to enroll 180 students for different majors, including the aquatic resources development, maritime safety and ship control. However, only four students passed the university entrance exams to the school. If counting on the students, who register to follow the 3-year training scheme of the school, the total number of the students following the study branch would be 30.
The school’s leaders hope that they still can find more students for the majors, when the students, who fail the entrance exams to other universities, would register to study these majors as their second choice.
Dr Tran Duc Phu, the Dean of the Resources Development Faculty, said that in 2007, the faculty had two classes which gathered 94 students. Meanwhile, in 2008 and 2009, there was only one class with 14 students. In 2010, the number of students registering study was not big enough to open a class.
“If the current situation cannot be improved, just in few more years, localities will not have the officers in the field of aquatic resources protection and development, in fishing ground and ship management,” Phu said.
Students nowadays also turn their back to the seafood processing study branch. There are 30 universities (4-year training) and junior colleges (3-year training) that provide training in the fields relating to the food technology and seafood processing. However, there exist many problems in the training.
At the Nha Trang University, the seafood processing major, like the food technology and aquaculture majors, cannot enroll enough students for the last several years.
Nguyen Van Viet, President of the Bac Ninh Fisheries Junior College, admitted that the aquatic culture faculty of the school now can enroll some tens of students a year, though ten years ago, it could enroll hundreds of students every year.
Explaining why sea-related studies are not attractive to students nowadays, Nguyen Trong Thao, MA, said that students believe that they will have to go out to the sea on fishing boats. Meanwhile, parents say they do not want to let their children to go out to the sea nowadays, when the East Sea dispute remains complicated. However, in fact, only the graduates of the ship control faculty have to work on ships, while graduates of other majors will main work ashore, at management agencies, or seaport authorities.
Also according to Thao, a lot of seafood import-export companies do not have any resources development engineers, therefore, it is impossible to meet the requirements on material tracing. Besides, the newly established fisheries control force also needs thousands of aquatic resource development engineers.
Educators have pointed out that the overly low salaries and hard working conditions are the two main reasons which make students turn their back to the majors.
“Graduates of sea-related majors take different kinds of jobs, except the jobs relating to the sea,” said Truong Huu Thuat, former student of the resources development faculty of the Nha Trang University. Thuat said that after the graduation, he worked for a shrimp feed factory for six years, then he studied for the business administration master degree and quietly shifted to another kind of business.
Under the labor force development strategy for 2011-2010, sea-related study branches will be the very important majors. However, Dr Phu said that there are a lot of things that need to be done to make it realistic.
Source: SGTT
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