Three local universities have publicly protested a ban on
their July enrollment that was recently enacted by the Ministry of Education
and Training, which explained they had not met its requirements for facilities
and student-lecturer ratios.
Nguyen Tac Anh, president of
the Information Technology College Ho Chi Minh City, one of the three punished
institutions, complained to Sai Gon Tiep Thi newspaper that he did not
understand why the ministry had announced the ban on his school.
Anh pointed out that its actual
student-lecturer ratio is nearly three times lower than the figure the ministry
announced after its recent inspection, whereas the school’s new 1.4 ha campus,
which is under construction, was not included when the education watchdog
calculated its teaching space.
Many other schools which have a
higher ratio than the tech school’s have not been forbidden from enrolling new
students, he grumbled.
The president said the school’s
management board was preparing an appeal to the ministry.
But on Wednesday Dat Viet
newspaper reported that the school still accepts the ban and will not enroll
new students for the next school year starting in eight months.
Nguyen Mong Hung, president of
the second banned higher institution, Van Hien University, which is based in
the southern hub, expressed his point-blank opposition to the enrollment
prohibition imposed on his school, and asked the ministry to review its
decision.
The board chairman of Dong Do
University in Hanoi, the other school, told Dat Viet that the ministry had used
outdated statistics when working out its number of students.
“The supervisory body did not
properly count our faculty members as it did at other schools,” Nguyen Thanh
Tinh, the chairman, added.
“That’s why it obtained a very
high student-lecturer ratio.”
The bans are the result of the
ministry’s inspections of the trio in 2011’s last quarter that showed their
student-lecturer ratios well exceeded the national standards, meaning a
lecturer has to teach too many students, while also failing to own an
appropriate amount of teaching space.
Universities in Vietnam start
enrolling students in July for the new school year that often begins two months
later.
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