LookAtVietnam – The facilities and study materials necessary for university stduents to allow for productive study time, however, are unavailable.

Students are getting into the library of the HCM City University of Polytechnique Education

Nguoi Lao Dong reporters revealed that they witnessed university students sitting in large numbers along the corridor of the first floor of a newly-constructed building.

“Here we can use wi-fi. The libraries make us leave our laptops outside. Therefore, we would rather sit here and study than in the libraries, a student explained.

Students of HCM City University of Education were also seen studying in unused classrooms that were hot, narrow and dusty, completely unfit for learning.

When one student was asked why he studied in such poor conditions, he replied that he really wanted to be in the library, but must arrive very early to get a seat.

HCM City University of Polytechnic Education students also admitted that they prefer sitting in the school yard rather than the library, which is very hot and only has a few seats.

They noted that the library is only open from 7am to 4:30pm, with no evening hours, while most students need to use the library at night.

Nguyen Van Long Giang, Head of the Training Division, admitted that the school’s library cannot meet student demands. It can only provide documents for the most basic of needs and not for advanced study.

Meanwhile, the library can serve only 200 students.

At Van Hien University, reporters also saw a security guard ordering students out of idle rooms to save money on electricity.

A student of HCM City Agriculture and Forestry University, showed the reporters her book, explaining that she has to purchase her document from bookstores in the city, because she cannot learn with those provided by the university.

She said that books are always in short supply and then students have to use photocopied documents that are poorly printed and missing words

The schools have also acknowledged that they still do not have enough materials for their students. Only 40-60 percent of teaching and learning materials have been compiled by the universities, while remaining texts have been “borrowed” from other universities.

VietNamNet/NLD