MOET said it will take a series of measures in the time to come. It will reinforce the campaigns to heighten students’ awareness of what they should do to choose careers suitable to their abilities and the labor market’s demand. 

It will organize more activities to help students learn better about their future jobs. It will strengthen surveying of the labor market to figure out reasonable training plans. 

However, education experts commented that the solutions suggested by MOET will help settle the problem because they are unspecific. Meanwhile, the strengthening of supervision over training, and the punishing of establishments that commit violations, which they believe are the most important measures, have not been mentioned by MOET.

In fact, MOET recently conducted many inspection tours to schools and asked the schools that could not satisfy the requirements to stop enrolling students. However, after a short time, the schools were allowed to resume enrolment.

In December 2011, MOET told Van Hien and Dong Do universities and HCM City Information Technology College to stop enrolling students. The other four schools, including Chu Van An, Luong The Vinh, Nguyen Trai and Da Nang Architecture, were also told to stop enrolling students in 12 training majors.

Later, in April 2012, MOET released a decision prohibiting Tay Ha Polytechnic College, Quang Ngai Technique & Industry College, Phu Xuan, Yersin Da Lat and Thanh Tay universities to stop enrolling students for six training majors, because the schools could not satisfy the requirements on facilities and the ratio of students to permanent teachers.

However, just one year later, MOET allowed these schools to resume enrolment.

In January 2014, more than 70 universities were told to stop enrolling students in 207 training majors because the schools did not have enough permanent lecturers. But just two months later, the schools resumed enrolment in nearly 100 majors.

Analysts doubt that the schools could upgrade their facilities and recruit more lecturers within such a short time.

Experts said education accreditation should be seen as the top priority to upgrade training quality.

MOET, in its instruction on education quality, said 80 percent of universities and 50 percent of colleges must be accredited by 2010.

However, by the end of 2013, only 40 universities and 18 training curricula had been assessed in accordance with standards set by MOET.

NLD