May 21, 2012

Vietnam - Unlicensed graduate courses flourish in Vietnam


Graduate courses have been offered at myriad universities across Vietnam without having been approved by the Ministry of Education and Training, a Tuoi Tre reporter has found.

Thang Long University in Hanoi has just finished enrolling for its master’s degree courses in business administration and international management, which will be jointly run with Nice University from France.

Students will study the courses at the Vietnamese school while the French partner will confer the degrees, according to a Thang Long enrolling notice.

But Thang Long president Le Van Mot failed to present a license from the education ministry for these courses when your correspondent asked for it.

Mot said he would later check with ministry officials if their license application had been approved.

Meanwhile, another Hanoi-based school, Electric Power University, was once found recruiting students for some graduate programs to be illicitly run in cooperation with several Vietnamese and Chinese universities.

School president Dam Xuan Hiep explained the university simply did the enrolling work as a “service” for those schools.

A training center under the Vietnam National University – Hanoi has also been discovered seeking students for multiple unapproved graduate programs, which will be taught at its Hanoi campus or Thu Dau Mot University, based in the southern province of Binh Duong.

In another case, the Ho Chi Minh City-based University of Finance and Marketing was found starting to enroll for its master’s degree courses in banking and finance last January while it was only allowed to do so 6 months later.

Many others have had to scrap their programs following orders by the ministry, leaving their students emotionally and economically hurt.

TUOI TRE



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