Graduates of international high schools
operating in Vietnam are denied access to Vietnamese higher education, even
though their schools are accredited in the country.
Doan
Quang Anh, a graduate of a Singaporean high school located in Ho Chi Minh City,
has recently had his registration for the national university entrance exams –
screening tests Vietnam uses to select students for higher education – rejected
as education authorities refused to certify his academic records.
“We
turned down his registration because the graduation certificate his high school
conferred on him has not been recognized as an equivalent of Vietnam’s high
school diploma,” explained the Hanoi-based university that Anh was applying to.
A
parent in HCMC has also had to send his daughter to Malaysia to study for an
undergraduate degree after many Vietnamese universities declined her
applications simply because the municipal education and training department
refused to certify her credits earned at a HCMC-based international high
school.
Local
education and training departments have insisted that they are not authorized
to certify these records, even though they are responsible for licensing them.
“The
Ministry of Education and Training must give us the green light first,” they
said.
But the
ministry has told Tuoi Tre that it had earlier empowered these local education
and training departments to complete the certification.
It adds
that they have to announce the results of the certifying process within 15
days, after receiving the necessary documents from students.
Universities
are not allowed to reject applications from graduates of international high
schools if their academic records have been certified by local competent
agencies, Vice Minister of Education and Traing Bui Van Ga has emphasized.
In the
meantime, Anh’s mother, Doan Ngoc Thu, is very worried about her other son,
since he is studying at the same school as his brother.
“I need
to know whether they will recognize credits earned at international schools or
not, as my second son wants to gain admission to a technology university in
Hanoi next year,” Thu said.
“It is
absurd that they keep passing the buck to each other.”
TUOI
TRE
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