Finishing pedagogical schools to become… jobless
Becoming unemployed is the problem of hundreds of pedagogical school graduates in the central region
Graduating from the Mathematics Faculty of the Quang Nam University in June 2011, Phan Ngoc Linh has been seeking for a job everywhere, but she still has not found any. The dream of becoming a teacher that Linh cherished in her childhood has gone far away.
Linh now feels regret for her decision to take the entrance exams to a pedagogical school and ignore the advices of friends to go to an economics school.
Recently, the headmaster of the Thai Phien High School in Thang Binh district called Linh to inform that he offers a job to Linh. If accepting the job, Linh will have 10 teaching hour a week and receive 25,000 dong per teaching hour. However, Linh will not be added into the payroll which receives salaries from the State budget, but she will only sign a labor contract with the school and receives wage from the school.
Linh has decided to refuse the job, because the income of 250,000 dong is just enough for petrol to run motorbikes and lunches.
As such, after four years of studying, the pedagogical school graduate still has to earn her living by tending buffalos.
Pham Thi Thu, a Da Nang University of Education’s graduate, has also been staying at home since the day she got the university degree. “I thought that the most difficult work in my life would be passing the exams to the university. But I have just realized that it is even more difficult to find a job,” she complained.
Le Thi Thu Ha from Quang Binh province also still cannot get a job, though she finished school in 2009. After the graduation, Ha decided to stay in Da Nang City to look for a job, while giving private tutoring to earn her living. However, as she could not see any opportunities to seek a job, she decided to return to the home village in Quang Binh, while the university degree has still been put on the shelf.
Phan Thi Thanh Tam, who has finished a pedagogical junior college, also complained that she still has not found a job, even though she accepts to go working in rural and remote areas. “The same answer I received when applying for jobs at schools was that the schools did not have “quotas” for recruitment,” Tam said.
In fact, Tam is not alone. Hundreds of pedagogical school graduates in Quang Ngai province are facing the same problem.
Supply far exceeds the demand
Every year, Quang Ngai province produces 800 pedagogical graduates, but the province only needs 200-300 teachers for different levels of education.
Pham Nghi, Head of the Training Division of the Pham Van Dong University, said that about 450 students graduate the school every year, but only 10 percent of them get the jobs in the province, mostly in mountainous and remote areas. Some others leave for the south, the central highlands or take other jobs. The remaining students leave redundant.
According to the Quang Ngai Education and Training Department, 1000 teachers got retired or left their jobs in 2008-2010, and that the department recruited 1000 students to replace them. Meanwhile, the number of pedagogical school graduates in the three years reached 2400. This means that the remaining 1400 students who graduate local pedagogical schools have to leave for other provinces, or have to undertake jobs in other untrained fields.
The department is now looking some 80 teachers for the local high schools, but to date, it has received more than 500 applications.
Educators have pointed out that the social resources are being wasted, since graduates cannot find jobs. The Da Nang University of Education, which is the biggest pedagogical school in the central region, has admitted that it has never carried out a survey on the percentage of graduates who can get jobs.
Source: NLD
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