Education
Under-enrolled university faculties face closure
  • | VNN | October 04, 2010 12:48 PM

Many faculties at colleges and universities are at risk of having to close their doors due to a serious shortage of students, according to university and college representatives.

The deadline for the schools to receive student applications was September 30, but many faculties are short of applicants.

According to initial reports from universities and colleges nationwide, some faculties will not offer courses this year.

Nguyen Quoc Hop, head of Van Hien University’s Training Office in Ho Chi Minh City, said the faculties of Vietnamese Studies and Cultural Studies would be closed because they had each received only 15 applicants.

The university’s management board would ask the students to apply to other university faculties, he added.

At Tay Nguyen University, which is responsible for training human resources for the Central Highlands, its faculties of agricultural products preservation and process, plant protection, plant science, environmental technology and animal breeding studies received only a few applicants.

Only a few have applied for enrolment in the faculties of French, environmental sciences, society studies, Orientology studies, agriculture and rural works at universities which are members of Hue University.

Other schools like Tra Vinh University, Dong Thap University and Thu Dau Mot University are faced with the same shortage.

They have received about100 applicants, which is only one-fifth of the total number of the enrollment quota.

In addition, Dong Thap University has decided to cease operation of the faculties of computer, industrial and agricultural technology, and three other faculties at the college level: fine arts education, graphic design and school equipment technology.

An Giang University has also announced that it will close the door of five faculties. Eleven faculties of Da Nang University will not operate because of a shortage of applicants.

Dr Nguyen Tan Vui, vice principal of Tay Nguyen University, said it was important to have policies that correspond to the localities’ needs for human resource development and training.

If the situation at college and university faculties continued, many localities would be faced with a shortage of human resources, he said.

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