VietNamNet Bridge – Non-full time university education modes
have become more and more popular in the world, because they allow people to
follow studies in flexible way. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, non-full time training
has been filled with scorn.
It is estimated that more than 40
percent of students nowadays are following in-service training courses. That
explains why the decision by some provincial authorities to refuse in-service
training graduates has vexed so many people.
In the thoughts of Vietnamese
people, only those who fail the university entrance exams to follow full-time
training, would have to study at in-service training courses to obtain
university degrees. Therefore, the graduates of in-service training are
believed as having lower qualifications than full-time training graduates.
In principle, the degree granted
to in-service training graduates has the same value with the degree granted to
full-time training graduates. However, some provinces still have ignored the
current laws, stated that they will not recruit in-service graduates for their
state agencies.
Nguyen Van Khoat, Director of the
Ha Nam Education and Training Department, one of the localities that say “no”
to in-service graduates, explained that the department has to set up specific
requirements to ensure that it can find the best and most suitable officers for
the schools in the province.
However, Khoat has affirmed that
Nam Dinh does not say “no” to non-full time training, saying that it’s
necessary to find out reasonable recruitment methods, which allow to bring
opportunities to many candidates and find out the most capable ones.
In-service training goes the wrong way
According to Professor Lam Quang
Thiep, Vietnam should not follow the idea that it would be better to remove
non-full time training modes, because the modes can help people approach to
university education to have better knowledge.
Thiep said the problem of
in-service training now is that it has been going the wrong way. Therefore, the
thing that needs to be done is to choose a right way to follow, not to think of
removing the training mode from the national training system.
The blunder of the in-service
training, according to Thiep, is that the teaching technology applied for
full-time training has also been applied for in-service training as well, while
the latter needs a specific technology.
Non-full time training courses
mostly have special targeted students. The learners of the courses need to
spend time on self-learning. Therefore, the curriculums need to be designed to
fit the self-learners. However, the requirement has not been met so far.
Therefore, in order to improve
the quality of in-service training, it is necessary to design reasonable
curriculums, prepare good materials for students. It is also necessary to apply
a new method in assessing the students’ learning capability.
Commenting about open
universities, the main non-full time training service providers, Professor
Thiep said that the “open schools” are now operating as “closed schools.” In
Vietnam, the Hanoi and HCM City Open Universities are the biggest schools which
undertake the duties of providing distance training courses.
In principle, open universities
need to be equipped well with modern technologies to provide lessons to
learners who do not go to class every day. However, since the two schools do
not have necessary technical equipment and reasonable technologies fitting the
open education mode, they have become the “closed schools.”
Director of the University
Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Training Bui Anh Tuan has
said that a conference on education renovation would be organized in October or
November, where how to improve in-service training quality would be discussed.
Nguyen Huong
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