Dec 6, 2011

Vietnam - What do students do at in-service training courses?


VietNamNet Bridge – In people’s minds, in-service training always means low quality training. Tien phong’s reporter attended a teaching hour of in-service students to show that people have their reasons to think that, though the thing is not true to all in-service training courses.


No need to attend the lecture

It took Tien phong’s reporter a lot of time to persuade H, an in-service student, to allow him to accompany to the evening class. H graduated from a junior college and he is now working for an agency in Hanoi. He goes to an evening class every day, hoping to obtain a university degree which allows him to get promotion in his job.

“If you want to attend the lecturing hour, you should be present at the class very soon. If so, you would not have to show student card to security officers. Or you should enter class in break time,” he told Tien phong’s reporter.

Following the advice, Tien phong’s reporter was present at the school every soon, 30 minutes before the lesson began. He made so bold as to enter a class by chance. 

The class had some 20 students; most of them are advanced in years. A lot of them brought laptops, Iphones and Ipads to the lesson. On the lecture hall dais, the lecturer began his lecture at 6 pm. He talked about social networks, online business, Ebay and Facebook.

However, students did not pay much attention to the lecturer’s words. The lecturer was keeping talking, while students were busy with their own things. Sometimes, some students left the class for smoking cigarettes or chatting with friends through phones.

The lecture finished soon, just after 40 minutes. The students felt happy because they could leave soon. Meanwhile, the students of the next classroom left 15 minutes before already.

After that, Tien phong’s reporter decided to attend another class, together with H. A group of students was seen sitting outside the classrooms (they decided to enter the class after the break time), discussing about the essays they had to submit to lecturers. Some of them complained that they had not finished the essays yet, while others said about whether the lecture would take roll-call.

Suddenly, the monitor of the class went out of the class and collected the essays. “I had not time to write my essay, so I copied your work entirely,” a girl told another student.

After submitting their homework, the groups of students continued their chatting and waited for the roll-called. Meanwhile, some of them proved to be impatient and decided to leave. “I have submitted my homework’ no need to stay any longer,” one of them said.

Doing tests at in-service training course

At 6 pm of the next day, the Tien phong’s reporter came to a place near the AIA building on Hoang Quoc Viet street in Hanoi, where there was a class designed for the students who wanted to obtain an accountancy certificate.

D., a student of the class, said that the short training class lasts six months. He said that there were 40 members of the class, but only 10 turned up that morning, even though they were informed that they would have to do a test.

People could do many things on the came place: people were having dinner the next room, and the ding-dong sound of rice bowls could be heard by the students who were busy doing exercises. There was a toilet near the classroom, and some young men were going to the toilet, laughing noisily.

Students were asked to do a test, but in fact, they did the exercises in teams. As there was no supervisor, the students just copied the works from others. While waiting for others doing the exercises, girls were chatting about the lifestyle, boyfriends and about the fashion.

D said that the questions of the test were simple; however, the future accountants could not solve them.


Source: Tien phong



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