VietNamNet Bridge – While rural areas are seriously lacking
qualified workers, university bachelors are abundant in big cities. The current
policies do not offer the preferences attractive enough to encourage bachelors
to return to home villages after the graduation.
Under the current regulations,
students from rural or remote areas would get the “bonus marks” when they
attend the university entrance exams. A student in the inner city of Hanoi, for
example, needs to acquire 18 marks from the exams to be enrolled in a
university, while a student in the suburbs just obtain 17.5 marks to pass the
entrance exams, since he has the bonus mark of 0.5.
Meanwhile, the students from
farer and more difficult areas would get higher bonus marks.
The policy aims to create equal
opportunities for all students, including the ones from rural areas with
difficult learning conditions, to access university education. This is also
believed to encourage the students to return to work in their home provinces
after they finish school to ensure that workers with university education level
can help develop the local economies.
In the latest move, the Ministry
of Education and Training MOET has released a decision, saying that the
students from the three difficult areas in the country would be able to enroll in
universities, if they have the exam marks lower by one mark than the floor
marks stipulated by MOET.
The floor marks are the minimum
marks students must have in order to be eligible for registering study at any
universities in Vietnam.
As such, with the decision, MOET
has lowered the required standards to create more opportunities for students
from difficult areas to follow university education.
While experts have expressed
their worry that the low-quality input students would produce low-quality
graduates, educators have affirmed that this would not be a big problem.
The educators have cited a lot of
examples to prove that the students with low entrance exams marks still could
become the graduates with high qualification, provided that they make efforts
in learning.
Dang Kim Vui, President of the
Thai Nguyen University, applauding the ministry’s new policy, said that the
ministry has made a right decision to lower the required standards, because
this would help push up the training to provide high quality labor force to
rural and mountainous areas.
Phan Huy Phu, Deputy President of
the Thang Long People-founded University, also thinks that the new policy would
be good for the schools in difficult areas.
However, analysts have warned
that the policy may not bring the desired effects, which means that the
students, who enjoy preferences today to follow university education, would not
return to work in the home provinces as they were expected to do.
Once obtaining the university
degrees, they would stay in big cities to look for good jobs instead of
returning to the home provinces, where there are fewer job opportunities.
Explaining this, a student from
Kon Tum said that his major is graphic design, which is unfamiliar in his home
village. Therefore, even if he wants to work in the province, he would not be
recruited, and that he would be better to stay in HCM City to look for the jobs
suitable to his training major.
Meanwhile, Dang Kim Vui from the
Thai Nguyen University said that the state needs to offer the policies
attractive enough to persuade university graduates to work in rural or remote
areas.
“It would be impossible to look
for a good agriculture expert, if we pay him 2 million dong a month only for
his hard work, and if he has to walk or ride bicycle to the remote area,” Vui
said.
Tien Phong
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