Technical universities in South Vietnam are on the look out for
students as they are increasingly finding it difficult to motivate
students to study for any major in their university.
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| View of the electrical and electronic engineering faculty of the HCMC University of Technology (Photo:vietnamglobalteam.org) |
Departments of education and training in the country will complete
receiving university application forms for universities by tomorrow and
will transfer these forms to universities for the upcoming entrance
examinations.
Of the 29,000 applicants in the South representative office of the
Ministry of Education and Training, 20,300 students (70 percent) prefer
to study economics and technological subjects in universities, while
only 3 per cent wish to follow technical programmes.
From the 16,000 applicants for the Ho Chi Minh City University of
Industry received so far, 20 preferred to study Mechanical Engineering,
35 preferred Heat Engineering and Refrigeration and 30 preferred Garment
and Fashion Design while around 500 preferred Accounting and Business
Administration.
More worrisome is the fact that even a leading university like Ho Chi
Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) is not attracting students.
Of the 5,000 applications received only 10 are for Industrial
Maintenance, 20 for Garment and Textile courses and 12 for Material
Techniques.
Faculties like Industrial Technology and Automation Technology in the
University of Technical Education have received less than 10
applications.
The situation is the same in the Nong Lam University (University of
Agricultural Engineering) although it is one of the universities in the
country receiving many applications. A few students have registered for
agricultural engineering and automation engineering here.
Dr. Huynh Thanh Hung, deputy director, said students do not choose
these subjects, as they fear hard work while Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung, chief
of the Training Division, blamed the vocational courses as not being
good enough.
However, Hung said students from these faculties easily found jobs after graduation with high salaries.
Meanwhile, the departments of education and training in the North
said Option A students (those who opt to take an examination in math’s,
chemistry and physics) make up most of the majority. Hanoi received
53.12 percent of Option A students next only to Option D (foreign
language, literature and math’s) with 24.13 percent, Option B (math’s,
chemistry and biology) with 13.54 percent and Option C (literature,
history and geography) with 4.44 percent.
Students coming from the northern mountainous provinces of Bac Kan, Yen Bai, Son la, and Lao Cai preferred to choose Option C.
Resource: SGGP News
