Vietnam - Higher education schools break rules to enrol

Many Vietnamese junior colleges and universities are flouting local education regulations on admission and training sites to enroll students for their undergraduate courses.

One of them, Vo Truong Toan University, which is based in the southern province of Hau Giang, is offering associate’s and bachelor’s degree courses to those who have graduated from professional intermediate schools – which supply vocational courses to students – at a location in Ho Chi Minh City, while the Ministry of Education and Training demands that a university can only run these classes at its campus or authorized branches.

The school has also said that applicants who have applied to a major different from the one they had followed at their professional intermediate schools will not have to attend foundation classes before its admission exam, a violation of the rules.

In the same fashion, Vien Dong, a HCMC-based junior college, has taught many joint undergraduate programs at another school for quite some time.

Moreover, it has recruited students who had earlier graduated from occupational intermediate schools, which teach shorter courses than the above professional ones, whereas the ministry merely allowed it to seek enrollees from the latter.

Similarly, Thai Binh Duong University, located in the central city of Nha Trang, and Luong The Vinh University, based in the northern province of Nam Dinh, have both offered university courses at other schools which are not either their own branches or training facilities.

Dien Luc (Electricity) University has also admitted students to many undergraduate courses taught at various places outside its own campus in HCMC.

Many other schools have blatantly broken the regulations to recruit students as well, with some even running unlicensed training programs.

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