MOET’s Minister Pham Vu Luan said that the enrolment targets see the two digit growth rates over the last 10 years – the overly hot development.
Meanwhile, some local authorities have announced that they will not recruit the graduates from in-service training courses and people founded schools. This shows that the university training is alarmingly bad and it needs improvement. In order to upgrade the training quality, it’s necessary to tighten the management over the schools’ enrolment plans.
MOET has announced the decision to force three schools and 12 faculties of four other schools to stop enrolling students in 2012. Besides, it has also made public the list of the schools which were imposed fine in 2011, mostly because they enrolled more students than allowed.
The HCM City Economics University, for example, had the enrolled students exceeding by 38 percent than the allowed level. The Hanoi Business and Technology University enrolled 899 students more than the allowed level. The figures were 247 students for the Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanity, 594 students for the Duy Tan University and 1314 students for the Hanoi Industry University.
However, commenting about the punishment, analysts say that the measures seem to be not strict enough to “deter” schools, because they continue enrolling more students the next years.
To date, 133/176 universities and 152/212 junior colleges have reported the enrolment plans for 2012 to MOET. Of these, 55 universities and 39 junior colleges have still registered the enrolment targets which are beyond their capability.
As for the 2012 enrolment season, MOET has requested schools to define the enrolment targets themselves after considering their teaching staff and material facilities. For example, under the ministry’s regulation, schools must be sure that they have one lecturer for every 25 students of popular training.
Schools’ presidents have complained that the regulations are too rigid which would put big difficulties for schools, especially non-state owned ones.
Do Huu Tai, President of the Lac Hong University, said that people founded schools have to stand on their own feet and do not get any support from the State. Therefore, they have been facing big difficulties in arranging the teaching staff.
“Is it really necessary to set up a rigid requirement that schools must provide one lecturer for every 25 students?” he questioned, asking the ministry to set up the solutions to help ease the current temporary difficulties of people founded schools.
Le Thanh Binh, President of the Industry and Trade Junior College, said: “Schools have been told to define the enrolment targets based on the number of lecturers. But we cannot retain them.”
“The ministry requests us to give honest report about the number of lecturers. However, if we are honest, our quotas would be very small,” he added.
Binh has suggested that MOET should not set up such overly high requirements. “If schools cannot enroll students, they will not have money to pay to lecturers and upgrade the training quality,” he warned.
Meanwhile, Le Vinh Danh, President of the Ton Duc Thang University, has described the regulations as “not practical”.
He said that if following the regulation on the ratios of lecturers on students, in 2012, universities and junior colleges would be able to enroll 37,443 students only.
Under the current regulation, every class must have 20 students, if the lecturers are bachelors and engineers, and 37.5 students, if the lecturers are PhDs. At present, the number of PhDs only account for 10.63 percent of the lecturers. This means that the number of students per class would be low.
However, replying to the comments, MOET’s Minister Pham Vu Luan stressed that the regulations must be obeyed, and that MOET won’t make concession and will heavily punish the schools and the presidents violating the regulations.
Source: Lao dong
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