Many university graduates admit that they have had take jobs as workers at factories.v

A professor at a leading university in HCM City was so worried he may lose his job and he took to Facebook to share his concerns.

Times Higher Education (THE) has released the ranking of the leading universities in Asia, which includes 350 schools from 25 countries and territories. Vietnam was not on the list. 

The rector of the HCM City Agriculture & Forestry University last year signed 946 decisions to expel 946 students after they received three warnings from the board of management.

VietNamNet Bridge - A representative of a school says the accreditation of higher education establishments in Vietnam is unconvincing as many bad schools can meet the standards.

Many bachelor’s degree graduates don’t have basic skills to undertake their works if they don’t receive retraining. Many of them cannot even fill out applications for jobs or compile official dispatches in an acceptable manner.

The question about whether Vietnam should remove the floor-mark mechanism has once again been raised after British media warned about the decrease in quality of university students.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has set stricter requirements for doctorates, hoping that changes in the new regulations will shift the quality of PhDs to the regional level.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Universities should reduce the minimum enrollment quotas to focus on improving training quality, .

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), in a report to the government, has described 15 solutions to settle the high unemployment rate of university graduates. However, the solutions have been described as “vague” and “unclear”.

VietNamNet Bridge – The high percentage of unemployed university graduates is attributed to their low qualifications, which is a result of poor training at the post-secondary level.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts doubt that Vietnam can export specialists on a large scale, claiming they are not qualified to work in an international environment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 150 polled businesses in Hanoi gave 3.05 points when asked to assess the university graduates’ capability to adapt to the works. One is the lowest and five is the highest in the marking scheme.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The municipal Department of Education and Training is compiling a new set of standards that will strengthen its assessment of training quality at international high schools in the city.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) applies a decentralization scheme, allowing local education and training departments to appraise the schools’ capability for licensing. This is the fatal mistake that leads to problems in training.

Universities have been mushrooming. But most of them have low quality training and poor material facilities, the report on supervising the implementation of the National Assembly’s resolutions on university education reads.

A mathematics master works as a simcard seller, a business administration bachelor works as home maid, or a pedagogical school graduate works as a waiter at a café. The Vietnamese high qualification labor force has become so cheap.