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Vietnan: Vocational education needs reform

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Vietnan / 14 de septiembre de 2016 / Fuente: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/

Vietnam’s vocational education system must undergo reform to produce workers who can compete with their counterparts in other countries, the head of Institute of Vocational Education Studies has said.

Speaking at a conference held in HCM City on September 11, Dr Vu Xuan Hung said that only 38.5 percent of labourers had been trained at vocational schools.

“Vietnam’s labourers are not ready for the ASEAN Economic Community,” Hung said.

The number of unemployed students has increased quarter by quarter, he said, adding that workers’ English skills were lower than those in Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia.

He said that vocational training would be necessary to close the gap with workers in other countries.

Dr Huynh Thanh Dien, who is working on a support industry project, said many workers were not qualified to work in standard manufacturing.

This was partly due to lack of cooperation in training between enterprises and schools. The city, for instance, had not created models for cooperation and vocational school training had not been based on enterprises’ need, he said.

Associations that represent businesses should establish links between schools and companies, he said.

HCM City will need 270,000 employees each year from now to 2025, and of that amount, 85 percent should be trained labour, according to the Centre for Human Resource Forecast and Labour Information.

Since 2011, the southeastern region has lacked sufficient human resources for the construction and industrial sector, while there are more than enough workers for the service sector.

Each year, the number of working-age people from 15 years old and above in the city increases by 100,000.

Of this number, 70 percent continue to study at high school or university and the remaining seek jobs or attend vocational training schools.

Fuente noticia: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/education/163590/vocational-education-needs-reform.html

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Vietnan: General school students fed up with vocational training

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Vietnan / 07 de septiembre de 2016 / Fuente: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite low tuition and the 100-period (one period of 45 minutes) curriculum, the majority of general school students are not interested in vocational training programs. They attend the vocational classes just to receive bonus marks. 

Nguyen Ha V, a 10th grader at Kim Lien High School in Hanoi, said that she spent 1.5 years to attend training when she was at secondary school and plans to continue attending another training course at high school.

“I learned how to make flowers from paper,” V said, adding that after attending the course, she received 1.5 bonus points, which were added to the secondary-school finals’ result.

“Making paper flowers is easy so we chose it,” she explained.

However, the student admitted that though students attended the training course, they did not come to class regularly because the lessons were boring.

“My friends could not make flowers. They bought flowers in the market and submitted them to the teacher,” she said.

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh, a 12th grader in Hanoi, admitted that she was not interested in vocational training, but she still registered to attend a course to learn how to make paper flowers.

“We don’t think we can improve our skills or get something from the course. We registered for the course just because we hoped we could receive bonus marks when sitting the high-school finals,” Anh said.

“Someone surfs the internet, and the others sleep or do math exercises,” Anh said when asked what students do at vocational lessons.

There are 213 9th graders at the Khuong Dinh Secondary School, and 100 percent of them choose to study informatics for vocational training.

Do Viet Hien, the headmaster of Khuong Dinh, said in fact, only 90 percent of students initially wanted to study informatics. However, the school advised the other 10 percent to change their mind, because it would be easier to control students if all of them attend the same training course.

Nguyen Thi Van Hong, headmaster of Le Loi Secondary School in Hoan Kiem district, admitted that she was not sure about the efficiency of the vocational training, because many students follow training not because they want to improve their skills, but to receive preferences.

Under current regulations, vocational training at secondary school is implemented with financial support from local authorities. Therefore, each student pays only VND40,000 for a training course which lasts 1.5 years.

Fuente noticia: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/education/163003/general-school-students-fed-up-with-vocational-training.html

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