VietNamNet Bridge - Many of Da Nang University’s lecturers sent abroad for training courses have not returned as promised. Six lecturers have been dismissed.

 

Da Nang University now seriously lacks lecturers. In 2008-2015, the university sent 428 lecturers to refresher training courses each year, 90 percent of whom were sent abroad. 

In 2014, the school received 52 PhDs who returned after finishing training courses, including 46 PhDs who finished training overseas. The new PhDs have helped increase the proportion of lecturers with doctorates to 22 percent.

Most of the lecturers studied overseas with scholarships granted either by the government (under Programs No 322, 911 and 599), by foreign partners, or under the cooperation programs between Da Nang University and foreign schools.

While the lecturers were away from school, they still received 40 percent of their salaries.

However, many lecturers, who studied with the state’s money, did not come back after finishing training courses.

Lecturer NPXN from the Information Technology Faculty of the Da Nang University of Education, a member school of the Da Nang University, for example, has not returned, though she was scheduled to finish the training course in April 2013.

Da Nang University released two documents requesting NPXN to return and report about her study. In October 2013, she submitted her letter of resignation.

The school once again asked the lecturer to continue the job at the school as she promised before leaving for studying. However, she has not returned.

Da Nang University has four times asked NNN, a lecturer at Da Nang University of Technology, who finished the two-year training course in the UK and Germany in September 2013, to resume his work. But NNN has not turned up.

In other cases, lecturers returned after they finished studying, but later left the school. 

NQM, for example, after obtaining a doctorate in the UK, came back and worked as a Mechanical Engineering Dean. But later he and his wife, also a lecturer at Da Nang University, resigned from their posts and went to the UK again.

“We really want to sue them for breaking commitments and ask for compensation. However, it is really difficult to do this if they are still abroad,” said Prof Dr Tran Van Nam, director of Da Nang University. 

Also according to Nam, the tuition is relatively high in the UK and US. On average, every lecturer received $27,000 a year for a 3-year training course.

Dat Viet