VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of people, who have just graduated
universities, or finished schools many years ago, now rush to attend training
courses to obtain higher degrees before the State tightens the postgraduate
education management.
A university degree alone is not
enough for anyone to become outstanding candidates in recruitment campaigns.
Therefore, university graduates try to go back to school to obtain master
degrees or doctorates which would give them more advantage in the interviews
for jobs.
Tuyet decided to attend a
training course for a master degree, after she heard that she would receive
bonus marks in the civil service examination.
Though she is not good at English
enough to pass the postgraduate entrance exams, she still decided that she
needs to attend the exam right now. If her plan is delayed, she would meet a
lot of difficulties when the government tightens the control over the quality of
postgraduate training.
Under the current regulations,
one needs to have the English skills equivalent to A2 of the European standards
in order to be able to attend the training course for a master degree.
Tuyet is not alone. A lot of
people have the demand to attend postgraduate training courses for higher
degrees, which would help them get promotion in their jobs.
Understanding well the high
demand, the schools have opened a lot of training courses to satisfy the
increasingly high demand, which of course, can bring them fat money.
An official of the Ministry of
Education and Training has revealed that schools have repeatedly asked for more
quotas to enroll postgraduates. The Hanoi Transport University, for example,
enrolls up to 1000 learners for the first phase of the 2012 master training
program. The Hanoi University of Education enrolls 700 learners.
Meanwhile, the Hanoi National
University enrolled up to 4000 learners for master degree and 376 PhDs in 2011,
while the number of full time students of the school remains unchanged, at
5500.
A recent report shows that
Vietnam has 20,000-25,000 masters trained every year in Vietnam. Meanwhile,
experts have warned that since the training scale gets bigger, the training
quality has decreased.
Dr. Ngo Kim Thanh from the Hanoi
Economics University affirmed that it is now a growing tendency in Vietnam to
study to obtain master degree. A university lecturer with the doctor degree is
assigned to guide 10 postgraduates to write their master theses a year. This is
really a heavy workload, which cannot ensure the high training quality.
Since experts have voiced their
concern about the quality of postgraduate training, the Ministry of Education
and Training has stated that it would keep a tightened control over the
training.
The Hanoi University of
Technology, for example, has checked the postgraduate training courses of the
school and released the decision to stop two learners who were attending the
training courses for doctor degrees.
Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Quang from the
Hanoi Economics University has noted that a lot of people register for training
courses just to obtain degrees. Meanwhile, they do not attend the classes, do
not fulfill the exercises. Especially, some of them still can give 1000
teaching hours at a university or do their private business.
A senior official of the Hanoi
Economics University said the school is going to set up a set of standards to
be referred to when assessing the quality of master or doctor theses.
Nhu Ha
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