Illustrative image (Source: zing.vn)Hanoi (VNA) - Universities and educational institutesmust publicise their achievements, such as the rate of their graduates who havefound jobs, before the national high school entrance exam of 2018, experts saidat a recent conference.
Speaking at an online dialogue on the Government websitechinhphu.vn on Friday, Dr Mai Van Trinh, director of the Ministry of Educationand Training’s Department of Education Testing Accreditation, said making thequality of each university public would benefit school enrollment.
Many schools have well-equipped facilities and high-qualityteaching staff, but still encounter difficulties in enrollment due toinefficient communication. If publicizing their results is compulsory, theseschools would draw more students, he said.
Since 2009, the ministry has required all schools to publicizetheir performance in three areas - school facilities, teaching staff andfinancial revenue and expenditure. The data is posted on university websites,but their accuracy has not been confirmed, he added.
PhD Nguyen Quy Thanh, director of Hanoi National University’sCentre for Education Quality Accreditation, said there is a shortage ofindependent supervisors and evaluators of accreditation quality and nosanctions for those found to have announced inaccurate information.
Apart from the three criteria mentioned above, experts recommendedthat the ministry require schools to announce the rate of students getting jobsa year after graduation.
However, Thanh said some schools announce that up to 80 per centof their graduates have found jobs, but failed to show the originalquestionnaire filled by students and employers when they were audited. Otherscarried out a survey on a very small number of students – only 30 per cent oftotal graduates – and came up with a high rate of employment. But thatnumber was unreliable, he said.
Dr Nguyen Van Long, council chairman of the Hanoi-based Universityof Transportation, said that to conduct a survey of all graduates was animpossible task, but schools should select typical samples of students.
For example, he said, the University of Transportation would showthat 85 per cent of graduates got jobs if it only chose graduates from theTraffic Construction Work Department – a popular faculty. The school hadimposed sanctions to force graduates to report accurately on their careers, headded.
To get accurate and transparent information on the accreditationquality of universities and institutes, the director of the ministry’sDepartment of Education Testing Accreditation said that the ministry wasdrafting a circular setting out regulations on accreditation quality of highereducation.
The detailed circular would help evaluate the positions ofuniversities and colleges on the global map. The set of 111 criteria wasbased on the set of criteria of high-standard universities in the ASEAN region.The circular will be open for comments from the public.
Currently, centres of accreditation quality have been set up inHanoi, HCM City and Da Nang. The centres have examined the education quality of32 schools.-VNA
Speaking at an online dialogue on the Government websitechinhphu.vn on Friday, Dr Mai Van Trinh, director of the Ministry of Educationand Training’s Department of Education Testing Accreditation, said making thequality of each university public would benefit school enrollment.
Many schools have well-equipped facilities and high-qualityteaching staff, but still encounter difficulties in enrollment due toinefficient communication. If publicizing their results is compulsory, theseschools would draw more students, he said.
Since 2009, the ministry has required all schools to publicizetheir performance in three areas - school facilities, teaching staff andfinancial revenue and expenditure. The data is posted on university websites,but their accuracy has not been confirmed, he added.
PhD Nguyen Quy Thanh, director of Hanoi National University’sCentre for Education Quality Accreditation, said there is a shortage ofindependent supervisors and evaluators of accreditation quality and nosanctions for those found to have announced inaccurate information.
Apart from the three criteria mentioned above, experts recommendedthat the ministry require schools to announce the rate of students getting jobsa year after graduation.
However, Thanh said some schools announce that up to 80 per centof their graduates have found jobs, but failed to show the originalquestionnaire filled by students and employers when they were audited. Otherscarried out a survey on a very small number of students – only 30 per cent oftotal graduates – and came up with a high rate of employment. But thatnumber was unreliable, he said.
Dr Nguyen Van Long, council chairman of the Hanoi-based Universityof Transportation, said that to conduct a survey of all graduates was animpossible task, but schools should select typical samples of students.
For example, he said, the University of Transportation would showthat 85 per cent of graduates got jobs if it only chose graduates from theTraffic Construction Work Department – a popular faculty. The school hadimposed sanctions to force graduates to report accurately on their careers, headded.
To get accurate and transparent information on the accreditationquality of universities and institutes, the director of the ministry’sDepartment of Education Testing Accreditation said that the ministry wasdrafting a circular setting out regulations on accreditation quality of highereducation.
The detailed circular would help evaluate the positions ofuniversities and colleges on the global map. The set of 111 criteria wasbased on the set of criteria of high-standard universities in the ASEAN region.The circular will be open for comments from the public.
Currently, centres of accreditation quality have been set up inHanoi, HCM City and Da Nang. The centres have examined the education quality of32 schools.-VNA
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