Local universities which are using a large number of
visiting lecturers and unwilling to enroll fewer students in the next academic
year are racing to recruit lecturers and expand campuses in order to meet
education authorities’ new requirements for enrollment.
The Ministry of Education and
Training (MoET) has recently unveiled a circular stipulating that enrollments
in higher education institutions must be proportionate to their own campus size
and number of full-time faculty members.
The Hanoi-based Banking Academy
has accordingly doubled its annual recruitment of new lecturers to 70-80,
according to Dr Tran Manh Dung, the academic affairs office chief.
Dr Dung says the MoET has
warned it would enforce strict punishment on rule violators, so the school must
look for more full-time lecturers, because half of its faculty members are
visiting ones.
An official at Thang Long
University, also located in the capital, reveals it will take on 100 more
lecturers in the near future.
Nguyen Tat Thanh University, in
Ho Chi Minh City, says it is seeking 150 new lecturers as the school management
wants to admit more students in years ahead.
Ngo Thi My Lan, vice chief of
academic affairs at the HCMC-based Hoa Sen University, told Tuoi Tre the school
will recruit more to comply with the new requirements.
In the same fashion, Hung Vuong
University in HCMC says it is going to employ around 30 more lecturers to staff
its faculties.
Vo Van Tuan, academic affairs
chief at Van Lang University, which is based in the same southern city, says
his school needs 80 more lecturers to ensure that it is able to enroll as many
students as last year.
The schools are, at the same
time, grappling with the other part of the regulations.
Ngo Thi My Lan, of Hoa Sen
University, says that her school is building two new campuses in Districts 1
and 12, but adds that they won’t be finished for two more years.
“We have had to lease extra
teaching space so far,” Lan admits.
Hung Vuong also does not own an
appropriate amount of teaching space as required by the ministry, Nguyen Thi
Mai Binh, the school’s academic affairs chief, confesses, adding it has had to
lease additional spaces around the city.
The school is having problems
with the land banks for its campus expansion, so it will persuade the education
watchdog to waive the campus size rule for one year, Binh says.
Dr Hung, Nguyen Tat Thanh
president, says his school also suffers from the same issue.
“We will construct makeshift
lecture halls while waiting for new campuses to be put up.”
MoET demands in the circular
that a college lecturer teach no more than 25 students, and that the minimum
campus area per capita be 2 square meters.
It has recently banned three
Vietnamese universities from enrolling new students for the next school year
which starts in September, because they severely breached its regulations on
campus sizes and faculty members.
The bans followed its sudden
crackdown on enrollment at higher education levels after years of lax control.
For years, local experts have
argued that quality is sacrificed at many universities, which are trying to
admit as many students as they can simply to reap profit.
TUOI TRE
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