The HCMC University of Science & Technology

The news that thousands of students have been expelled from school is worrying educators.

An officer of the school’s training division said an average of 600 students are given warnings or forced to leave school each year, which accounts for 4-5 percent of total students.

In early October 2017, the HCM City Law University made public a list of 112 students forced to leave school and 66 other students who were given warnings about low marks.

The HCM City University of Science & Technology in the 2016-2017 expelled 500 students and gave warnings to 600 students.

In the first semester of the 2016-2017 academic year, the HCM City Transport University gave warnings to 1,888 students and forced 180 students to leave.

As for the HCM City Food Industry University, around 300 students have to leave each year most of them are first-year students.

Pham Thai Son, deputy director of the school’s enrollment center, said that many first-year students are not sure about decisions to follow registered training majors. Some of them want to quit and apply for other schools.

“The problem is that high-school students cannot receive good advice on their careers,” Son said.

Nguyen Truong Thinh from the HCM City University of Technique University agrees that most high school students cannot imagine what they will be in the future because they don’t know what they like and what their abilities are.

Also according to Thinh, many students spend most of their time on after-school jobs to earn money, so they don’t have time for studying. A female student at his school decided to drop out to devote herself to a pyramid selling network.

At the HCM City Open University, the number of students managing to graduate in time (in four years) is just 50 percent.

However, according to educators, in most cases, students have to stop learning because they cannot catch up with the curriculum. The problem lies in the difference between the teaching and study methods at grammar school and university. 

Meanwhile, some students blame the unreasonable curricula. “We have to study philosophy, national defence education and advanced mathematics. But I don’t think the subjects will be useful in the future,” Hoang Phuc Nhan, a student in Hanoi said.

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