VietNamNet Bridge – Talking about the university education in
the time to come, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) said that
Vietnam strives to upgrade the training quality, while it does not intend to
expand the network scale.
Deputy Minister of MOET Bui Van
Ga, in the interview given to Tien phong newspaper, said MOET has asked for the
permission from the Prime Minister to stop granting licenses to open more
universities. The ministry is adjusting the program on developing the network
of universities and junior colleges to be submitted to the Prime Minister for
approval.
“The main principle to be pursued
is that we need to focus on improving the training quality, while we do not try
to develop the scale rapidly,” Ga said.
He went on to say that no new
school would be set up in the localities with a high density of schools
already. In Hanoi and HCM City, where local authorities plan to relocate
universities to the suburbs, it’s obvious that there’s no need to establish
more schools in the inner city.
Ga has denied the fact the
existence of too many schools has forced schools to scramble for students,
because there are too few students to enroll.
Ga said that MOET always tries to
set up the floor marks low enough for schools to have enough students to
enroll. The floor marks are the minimum marks examinees must have from the
university entrance exam to be eligible for applying for study at universities
and junior colleges. The students, who fail the exams to some schools, may
register to study at other schools, if their exam marks are equal to the floor
marks or higher.
As such, according to Ga, the
supply of students is very profuse: 700,000-800,000 students reportedly can
satisfy the requirements on the minimum marks.
Especially, MOET has “helped”
schools seek students by allowing the students from 62 poor districts in the
country to enroll in universities without having to sit the entrance exams.
However, this does not mean that
schools would be able to find students. The schools located far from the
central areas or not well equipped, or the schools which set overly high
tuitions, for example, would be refused by the students.
In principle, state owned schools
would be the top priority choice for Vietnamese students. Those, who cannot
satisfy the requirements to study at state owned schools, would go to
people-founded schools. Therefore, non-state owned schools always have to offer
attractive preferences to attract students.
Tien phong has reported that a
people-founded university promised a high commission of 25 percent to those who
bring students to the school. The special marketing method has been applied
after it could enroll only tens of students a year in the last few years.
The Ha Hoa Tien people-founded
school has made a wise move which helped it increase the number of students.
Since 2011, it has been enrolling students for vocational training and junior
college training as well. More students have registered to study at the school,
because they can transfer credits to continue studying at higher levels at the
same school.
MOET has been criticized
violently in recent years for the overly high number of universities licensed.
With easy conditions for school establishment, a lot of people-founded schools
have been set up, which have been left idle because they cannot enroll
students.
A people-founded school, which
reportedly can enroll tens of students only a year, has declined to show the
figures about the enrolment this year. In 2011, the student, who came first at
the university entrance exam to the school only got 14/30 marks.
Compiled by Thu Uyen
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