VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese universities fail to attract the most excellent and the richest students, because they choose to go studying abroad when feeling disappointed about the domestic university education.
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According to Open Doors 2011, the number of Vietnamese students studying at the universities in the US in the 2010-2011 academic year increased from 13, 112 to 14,888 students.
Vietnam now ranks the 8th among the countries which have the highest numbers of students studying in the US. Five years ago, it was at the 20th position.
Considering education as a “non-smoke economic branch”, the US has made its education become the dream of millions of students from all countries in the world. The number of students going to the US to attend training courses increased by five percent this year.
According to the US Department of Commerce, international students bring 21 billion dollars in turnover to the country. University education is considered the leading service export sector of the US.
Meanwhile, Singapore, the neighboring country, has also been trying to attract Vietnamese students to its schools.
Do Quoc Anh, Director of the Southern Representative Office of the Ministry of Education and Training, said at a recent workshop that nearly 10,000 Vietnamese students are studying in Singapore; 80 percent of whom are studying at universities. Every year, the Singaporean National University attracts 300-400 Vietnamese students from the schools for the gifted, the ones who are good at mathematics, physics and informatics.
According to Vo Anh Dung, Headmaster of the Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted in HCM City, 300 students of the school go studying abroad every year.
Vietnam will suffer if it does not renovate university education
In the US, Singapore and many other countries, university education is considered an important economic sector. Meanwhile, Vietnam seems to keep indifferent to the market.
In minds of Vietnamese educators, students need to go to their schools, while they do not need to attract students. Therefore, the Vietnamese clients – students have left Vietnam for other markets.
According to Anh, Vietnam has to spend a lot of money to train gifted students. Meanwhile, the excellent students tend to go abroad to study at universities instead of domestic schools.
Singaporean schools are trying to attract the excellent students, while offering very easy conditions. Vietnamese students can study at Singaporean schools with full scholarships, provided that the students stay working in Singapore or working for Singaporean companies in other countries for three years at least.
“We have found out that no student has returned to Vietnam after four years, except the ones with special conditions,” Anh said.
Judy Wong from Singaporean SIM told VietNamNet that 300 students out of the total 2500 international students at her school are from Vietnam. Vietnamese students choose SIM because they can obtain the degrees from 13 well known universities of the UK, US, Australia and Switzerland at the low costs, while they do not need to go that countries. While they study in Singapore, they can easily return to Vietnam on holiday, while it is easy for their parents to fly to Singapore to visit their children.
Tran Ngoc Son in Bien Hoa City of Dong Nai province said that he has spent one billion dong to fund his son’s studying overseas. The boy failed the entrance exams to a domestic university, and he had to study at a foreign school. “It seems that Vietnamese universities do not need to attract students, and Vietnam does not need money for development?” Son questioned.
An educator has said that Vietnam needs consider students as special clients. Vietnam should build the schools powerful and good enough to attract excellent and rich students. In order to do that, it is necessary to change the enrolment policies, to ensure that the people, who have demand, can follow university study.
Tu Uyen
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