VietNamNet Bridge – Universities continue enrolling students
for vocational training, ignoring the request by the Ministry of Education and
Training MOET to stop providing career training.
MOET has told universities to
gradually scale down the vocational training before they completely stop this
kind of training in 2017. However, a lot of schools do not intend to reduce the
number of students enrolled for vocational training, which is called the “bread
earner” of the schools.
Especially, a lot of schools have
even enrolled more students in 2012, ignoring the decision by the watchdog
agency, thus pushing vocational schools, which have been sitting idle due to
the lack of students, against the wall.
The movement of universities
enrolling students for vocational training was triggered some years ago. It was
simply because schools tried to enroll more students to obtain higher income.
However, universities have been
violently criticized by the educators and vocational schools, who believe that
universities should focus on providing university education, while vocational
training should be the job of vocational schools.
Pham Nhu Nghe, a senior official
of MOET, has also affirmed that a vocational school must not exist in a
university, while one must not use the name of the university to enroll
students for the schools belonging to the universities.
The current Education Law also
stipulates that universities are the schools that provide university (4-year)
and junior college (3-year) training, not vocational training.
There is one more reason that
makes vocational angry: Universities, with their advantages, can easily enroll
students for vocational training, thus leaving no more students for vocational
schools to enroll.
Students have been told that if
they follow vocational training at universities, they would be able to pass
credits and follow the university education at the same universities.
Therefore, applying for studying at vocational schools is not the choice of the
majority of students, who fail the university entrance exams.
MOET, who sides with vocational
schools, in December 2011 released the circular No. 57, stipulating that
universities cannot enroll students for vocational training.
The legal document then brought a
high hope to vocational schools that they would have many students to enroll.
However, MOET, in unexpected move, in June 2012 amended the circular dated in
December 2011, saying that universities would not have to stop vocational
training immediately. The schools can step by step reduce the number of
vocational training students before they completely stop the training by 2017.
The decision by MOET has raised
the strong opposition from people, who believe that the decision comes contrary
to the 2005 Education Law and the University Education Law which has just been
enacted. An educator has said that the inconsistency of MOET has put big
difficulties for vocational schools.
Meanwhile, universities do not
intend to scale down the vocational training. Three months after the Circular
No. 57 was released, the Ton Duc Thang University upgraded its vocational training
division into the vocational school belonging to Ton Duc Thang University.
Especially, the vocational school has been enrolling students under the name of
Ton Duc Thang University.
To date, the vocational school
has called on 1465 students and it would only finish the enrolment season until
the end of October 15. Meanwhile, it only got the quota of enrolling 1200
students for vocational training this year.
On the signboard of the Gia Dinh
Economics and Technology School, there is the logo of the Nguyen Tat Thanh
University, which shows that the school is a subsidiary of the university. The
school announced that it would enroll 4000 students this year.
Compiled by Thu Uyen
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