VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of schools enroll students for
pedagogical training majors, but not all of them can produce qualified
teachers.
Dr. Hoang Van Can, Vice President
of the HCM City University of Education, has raised his concern about the
mushrooming of pedagogical schools and the low training quality of the schools.
“As far as I see, one and all
rush to provide pedagogical major training. I have to remind you that we are
training teachers, not doing water hyacinth in the wartime,” Can said.
“We must not allow all schools to
enroll students to train teachers. Schools must meet some certain requirements
to be able to provide training. It’s necessary to find out why so many
pedagogical schools have been set up,” he added.
The educator went on to say that
it’s necessary to clarify the functions of pedagogical schools. In many cases,
local junior colleges (3-year training) have been upgraded into
interdisciplinary schools, but they cannot enroll students for pedagogical
manors.
Therefore, it would be better to
assign tasks to every school. For example, central schools need to focus on
training teachers to provide to junior colleges, vocational schools or on high
quality training. Meanwhile, local pedagogical schools should focus on creating
the labor force for the localities.
Especially, Dr. Can emphasized
that schools need to be given the right to enroll students themselves. “Under
the current mechanism, it happened that a lot of students registered to study
literature, but they got only three or four marks for literature from the
university entrance exams. We have to accept the students, but we know it would
be very difficult to train them into good literature teachers,” he said.
Nguyen Xuan Ngoc, Director of the
Lam Dong provincial Education and Training Department, agrees with Dr. Can that
the existence of too many pedagogical schools cannot ensure the high quality of
graduates.
In principle, all the students
finishing pedagogical schools can apply for the jobs of teachers at local
schools. However, Ngoc said that the graduates from prestigious schools would
be preferable.
Phan Van Dung, Deputy Director of
the Khanh Hoa provincial Education and Training Department, also said he can
see the problems in the qualification of graduates.
He said that the education
department has received 600 applications for jobs, of which 100 candidates
showed the degrees at an “excellent” level.” However, the problem was that none
of them was from prestigious pedagogical schools.
“We sent some candidates who had
“excellent degrees” to the schools for the gifted, but they have met a lot of
difficulties over the last two years of teaching. We have informed them that if
they cannot do well, the education department would refuse to sign the labor
contracts with them,” he said.
Officials from local education
departments, as the employers, have complained about the pedagogical ability of
candidates.
Dung from Khanh Hoa said the
education department has requested to check the pedagogical ability of all
people applying for teaching jobs. Currently, one just needs to attend short
term training courses to obtain pedagogical certificates to be eligible for
teaching job. Especially, there have been the training courses which last only
one month, the time not long enough for learners to receive basic knowledge.
The Ministry of Education and
Training has recently stated that it would reconsider the program of training
teachers in the 2012-2013 academic year.
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