VietNamNet Bridge – The latest survey on the employment of university graduates conducted by the Ministry of Education and Training shows that only 50% of graduates can find jobs, and only 30% of these have jobs in the fields in which they received training.
Explaining the “modest” figure, Dr Nguyen Si Dung, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly’s Office, said that universities and colleges in Vietnam were still teaching “the art of killing dragons”.
Mr Dung said that the lives of Vietnamese people had changed a lot in recent years, but old curricula were still being applied.
Vietnam is now facing an excess of untrained labourers, and lack of qualified staffs. It is because Vietnam’s national economy has shifted to a market-oriented one, while the educational system has not been changed yet to adapt to the new conditions. There is no close link between enterprises and the educational and training system.
Xuan Thinh, a student from the Hanoi University of Technologies, said: “Dragons do not exist in reality. We don’t want to learn the ‘art of killing dragons’ only.”
Mr Dung said that universities provide ‘products’ for society based on demand; policy makers need to listen to businessmen in order to draw up suitable educational policies.
“Educators, policy makers and enterprises should sit together to discuss what to teach to produce labourers useful to society,” Mr Dung said, adding that if the “art of killing dragons” continued to be taught at universities Vietnam would not be able to improve the quality of its labour force.
Nguyen Thien Nhan, Minister of Education and Training, just after taking his post in July 2006, realised the need to “make products on demand”, putting forth 10 groups of solutions to this problem.
The top priority solution is to set up a national steering committee in charge of “educating on society’s demand”, which will comprise representatives from the Ministries of Education and Training, Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Planning and Investment, and other relevant ministries. A national centre for forecasting labour force demand will be set up, which, in the first period, will give forecasts about the demand for labourers in big cities like Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang.
(Source: TBKTVN)
Mr Dung said that the lives of Vietnamese people had changed a lot in recent years, but old curricula were still being applied.
Vietnam is now facing an excess of untrained labourers, and lack of qualified staffs. It is because Vietnam’s national economy has shifted to a market-oriented one, while the educational system has not been changed yet to adapt to the new conditions. There is no close link between enterprises and the educational and training system.
Xuan Thinh, a student from the Hanoi University of Technologies, said: “Dragons do not exist in reality. We don’t want to learn the ‘art of killing dragons’ only.”
Mr Dung said that universities provide ‘products’ for society based on demand; policy makers need to listen to businessmen in order to draw up suitable educational policies.
“Educators, policy makers and enterprises should sit together to discuss what to teach to produce labourers useful to society,” Mr Dung said, adding that if the “art of killing dragons” continued to be taught at universities Vietnam would not be able to improve the quality of its labour force.
Nguyen Thien Nhan, Minister of Education and Training, just after taking his post in July 2006, realised the need to “make products on demand”, putting forth 10 groups of solutions to this problem.
The top priority solution is to set up a national steering committee in charge of “educating on society’s demand”, which will comprise representatives from the Ministries of Education and Training, Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Planning and Investment, and other relevant ministries. A national centre for forecasting labour force demand will be set up, which, in the first period, will give forecasts about the demand for labourers in big cities like Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang.
(Source: TBKTVN)
