Reduction in quantity would lead to improvement in quality
Head of the Training Division of the University of Transport Nguyen Thanh Chuong said that the school advocates the decision by MOET to reduce the number of non-regular training students, even though this would lead to the reductions in the sources of income.
Chuong said that the number of non-regular training students the school plans to enroll in 2012 would be equal to 50 percent of the total targeted number of 5000 for both the Hanoi and HCM City branches.
Even the universities belonging to the Ministry of Industry and Trade have also applauded the policy on cutting down the number of non-regular training students, so that schools can gather their strength on upgrading the training quality. However, the schools have expressed their worries that if refusing to accept vocational training students, the schools would meet some difficulties due to the limited sources of income.
Dr Tran Trung, President of the Hung Yen University of Technical Education, absolutely agrees that universities should not provide vocational training and that they should cut down the number of students in order to improve the training quality.
Trung has committed that the school will not enroll students for vocational training in 2012-2013 academic year. As for non-regular training students, the school will only enroll 100 students in 2011-2012.
PhDs should not join vocational training
Vo Van Sen, President of the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanity, said that he advocates the policy on cutting down the number of students, because the main purpose of the school is not making money. His school itself has been cutting down the number of in-service training students in the last four years in order to improve the training quality. To date, the school’s number of students has decreased by 6000.
Also according to Sen, schools should not complain about the limited sources of income once they have to cut down the number of students. He believes that presidents would be able to bring other sources of income to lecturers. Currently, the lecturers of the school can earn 8 million dong a month on average.
Deputy Director of the Post and Telecommunications Institute of Technology Le Huu Lap said that once a university takes on too many training levels, it would find it difficult to fulfill all the tasks. A lecturer may not be good at practice enough to join vocational training, while a PhD would not be satisfactory if he is told to teach in-service students.
“The vocational training now can be undertaken by the system of vocational schools, and universities should not take on vocational training any more,” Lap said.
He went on to say that the institute has stopped vocational training for the last many years. Meanwhile, it plans to reduce the number of 3-year training students (junior college level) to focus on university training.
MOET assertive on the decision
Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan emphasized that it is legal to prohibit universities to provide vocational training. The current law stipulates that universities only produces bachelors, masters and PhDs.
Luan said he has found out from fact-finding trips that a lot of schools have poor material facilities, but still try to expand the training scale. Therefore, it is now the right time to reorganize them and force them to focus on their main services.
Kieu Oanh – Huong Giang
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