Dan Tri: What are do you think are the biggest problems for Vietnamese universities?

Pham Minh Hac: State owned universities have been funded by state budgets, but many have not developed well. One university only finished building its school headquarters after 15 years

Tuoi tre newspaper has reported that the Phan Thiet University, which has just been established and still does not have adequate material facilities, still can enroll students and it is going to start training with 750 students in the first year.

I cannot understand why the government management agency allows such a thing to happen.

Dan tri: What should we do to solve the problems?

Pham Minh Hac: The most worrying thing now is that state owned universities are spontaneously providing a lot of new training programmes, including in-service training courses. Higher education should mean training a high quality intelligent labour force.

I talked about the problem one month ago at the meeting of the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children.

The Government now decides to open universities, while the Ministry of Education and Training decides the number of students, the opening of new options and curriculums. Meanwhile, people are the sufferers. Only the Government can settle the current problem.