A
local sports university in the northern province of Bac Ninh has been found
offering many undergraduate and graduate courses without permission for the
last five years, Tuoi Tre reported.
Since 2006 Bac Ninh Sports University has
partnered with several Chinese universities based in Guangzhou, Shanghai,
Wuhan, and Guangxi to run the unlicensed courses, a Tuoi Tre correspondent has
discovered.
It has enrolled high school graduates for the
undergraduate programs and university graduates for the graduate programs
without subjecting them to any specific admissions requirements or tests.
The degrees in these programs are conferred by
the Chinese schools when the students have finished their studies in China
after completing the first half of their training in Vietnam.
Hundreds of students have graduated from these
unaccredited programs, the correspondent has discovered.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
said in an investigation report that the school had blatantly violated
Vietnam’s education laws and demanded it to halt enrolment for these courses.
It also ordered the school to submit written
explanations but has yet to receive any reply from the school leaders.
Embezzlement
Financial irregularities related to the
tuition for some graduate programs at Bac Ninh Sports University have been
confirmed by local authorities.
One of the school’s two officials who were
accused by many graduate students of embezzling their tuition has returned part
of the money, while the other repeatedly denies appropriating the remaining
sum.
The students were supposed to have begun the
last two years of their program in Shanghai in July but the Chinese school said
it received no such tuition, the students say.
TUOI TRE
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