Chair of the Vietnam Non-state University Association Tran Hong Quan, who is former Minister of Education and Training, has noted that even the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) now feels puzzled when schools complain that they do not have students to enroll.
Pedagogical schools complain that students nowadays do not want to become teachers, which makes it very difficult for them to find enough students. Non-state schools say they have to seek students from the ones, who fail the exams to prestigious schools and accept to study at less prestigious schools.
Meanwhile, even prestigious universities also have to enroll the students who only got the floor marks from the university entrance exams. The floor mark is the minimum mark students must have from the university entrance exams in order to be eligible for registering study at universities.
An observer said that a lot of schools have decided to enroll students for junior college training (3-year training), promising that they will allow the students to transfer credits to continue further study at the university level (4-year training).
The enrolment season officially finished yesterday October 10. However, a lot of schools still complain that they have not found enough students. The Hue University has only found 90 percent of the number of students needed. The Da Lat University was seeking 1500 students who registered to study at the school as their third choice (the students fail the exams to two other schools and accept to study at the Da Lat University as the third choice), but only 138 applications were made.
Especially, the An Giang University got 90 applications, but only 80 could satisfy the requirements, and the school still needs 400 more students.
On October 10, the Da Nang University released a notice that only 22 students registered study for four pedagogical majors, and only 7 of them were accepted. Meanwhile, the school needed 200 students for the majors.
The literature major, for example, got 18 applications, but only three were accepted, while the school needed 90. Especially, the studies about Vietnam only attracted one student, and cultural studies had got no application for study as the third choice, while the school needed 42 students.
The enrolment board of the school has said that the school is considering closing up some majors which cannot gather enough students. Prior to that, the Da Nang University informed the shutting down of two study branches.
In fact, lacking students has always been the big problem for non-state schools. However, the problem has never been so serious before. Quan said that the schools have no student to enroll, though the Ministry of Education and Training said before that there were a lot of students, especially the students who took B-group exams (mathematics, chemistry and biology).
Dang Kim Vui, Director of the Thai Nguyen University, a regional school with more than 10 member schools, planned to enroll 1800 students as the third choice. However, as the plan failed completely, Vui plans to apply some other methods of enrolment to find enough students. For example, if students did not obtain the minimum required marks to be able to study at universities, they can study at junior colleges first, and then transfer credits and continue studying at the university level.
Vui said that the number of universities has been increasing, while the number of students who can satisfy the requirements, has been decreasing. Meanwhile, students nowadays have a lot of choices if they want to continue studying at the university level. Therefore, it is understandable why schools cannot find enough students. That explains why schools nowadays have to compete fiercely with each other to scramble for students.
Source: Tien phong
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