| |
During
the past 12 months, two more universities were licensed
to offer IT bachelor courses, raising the number of
universities that trained IT bachelors to 57 from 55.
Branches that offer training of IT undergraduates
increased to 72 in 2003 from 69 in 2002. If we include
branches run by universities, this number is 99 compared
to 89 in 2002. The list of these branches did not
include international universities like RMIT, unlicensed
joint programs (like VINAJUCO) or those that claimed
diploma as a college course (a number of international
cooperation projects).
Another
salient feature in the past year was that universities
and colleges did not stop at training future IT
teachers; they actively sought for licenses to train
future IT engineers, which is seen as an independent
training direction running parallel with training
teachers. Military schools also took the initiative to
launch civil IT training courses. So far two military
universities and one college have started to offer such
courses.
Formal IT
training targets was 2,000 in 1999, 4,000 in 2000, 6,000
in 2001, 9,000 in 2002 and an additional 4,000 in 2003.
Formal IT training targets have exceed the 10,000 mark,
but divided by the number of colleges and universities,
each was responsible for less than 100 students per
year.
Informal
training centers were raised to 56 from 35. More and
more foreign partners took part in IT training and
certification. Not counting foreign universities, the
number of informal foreign partners, according to
incomplete statistics has reached 15: |
|
| |
The United States: Ecommerce Council, Sun, Cisco,
Microsoft, Oracle, Autodesk, New Horizons, Cadena
India: Aptech, NIIT, Tata Infotech
Australia: Kent
Singapore: Informatics. Genetics
Japan: providing recognition of IT engineers |
|
| |
A number
of online IT training at various levels is being
implemented and is expected to develop strongly in the
next few years.
The
system of informal training continued to develop without
planning, with more and more complicated cooperative
relations.
The
system of formal training grew too fast in terms of
quantities besides social science institutes, almost
every institute opened IT engineers and bachelor
training courses. Such a training entails yearly
targets, enrollment and a large number of intakes.
Meanwhile, investment in curricula, facilities and
teaching staff is low and not appropriate. This is an
alarming trend.
Another
fact of life in 2003 was that a large number of students
wanted to follow graduate courses in IT. A lecturers of
HCMC National University remarked: It seems that we
have trained so many engineers and bachelors who find it
hard to land a job, a great percentage of graduates have
no other choice but to learn more and more... |
|
Country watch: Vietnam