A dash for university seats has begun among both failed candidates and
enrolled students following the Ministry of Education and Training’s announcement
of new admission regulations that give advantages to specific applicants.
Vietnamese universities annually
enroll candidates based on their performance on a set of three particular MoET
standardized tests, which vary from discipline to discipline.
They are often banned from
recruiting applicants who score below the so-called ‘pass threshold’ the
ministry sets, ranging from 13 to 14.5 (out of a total 30 points) this year,
depending on each major.
But MoET issued a ruling last
week that allows higher learning institutions in three designated areas –
namely the Northwestern, Central Highlands, and Mekong Delta regions – to
accept local candidates who meet certain residency requirements and scored at
most 1 point below the threshold on the tests administered by MoET in July.
Phan Cam Tu, one of the
beneficiaries of this policy, said it came to her as a great surprise at a time
when she was ready to go to cram school for next year’s tests after failing the
most recent ones.
Tu added that her application has
just been accepted by Tien Giang University, located in the Delta, through this
positive discrimination.
“So I don’t have to wait until
next year,” she said.
Another candidate, Huynh Thanh
Liem, who could have lost a place at university thanks to his poor test
results, said he has recently managed to get into the same school in the wake
of the ministry’s ruling.
Those who are already enrolled in
vocational and junior college courses have also joined the race to university.
Hundreds of students who are
following occupational courses at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Food
Industry have asked for their personal portfolios back to apply to universities
in the designated regions, according to Pham Thai Son, the university’s deputy
chief of academic affairs.
“We have given the documents to a
score of them so far,” Son said.
A large number of applicants
eligible for the affirmative action plan have eyed places in six degree courses
at Tien Giang University, Dr Ngo Tan Luc, the school’s president, said.
Most of the students who are now
enrolled in junior college programs at Tien Giang would like to move to
university courses as they are all qualified for the new admission scheme,
Huynh Tan Loi, director of the education quality assessment center, said.
“We have received a dozen
applications from them,” Loi said. “Seventy candidates outside the university
are seeking acceptance as well.”
Local universities are allowed to
recruit new students until the end of November.
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