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A lecturer and students at HCM City National University. Low salaries have made it difficult for universities in the southern city to recruit young lecturers. —VNA/VNS Photo Hoang Hai |
The HCM City University of Law, for example, is still looking for 35 new lecturers to meet the target of a total of 235 for the university.
Rector Mai Hong Quy said applications for the position of lecturers with master's or doctoral degrees had been received year-round to ensure a large pool of candidates.
He added that many candidates had shifted to private educational institutes or companies, where salaries are higher.
The University of Technical Education in HCM City has also failed to meet its recruitment target of 60, and has been able to hire only 35 candidates, including 25 lecturers late last month.
In addition, the University of Finance and Marketing said it selected only six qualified applicants after holding its recruitment exams.
Dinh Trung Chanh, head of Nong Lam University in HCM City's Personnel Office, said the university hoped to employ an additional 46 lecturers and four engineers.
The university continued to receive applications, but graduates with good academic results preferred to work for companies that offered higher salaries.
In the past few years, only a few graduates with good academic results have applied to the university, according to Chanh.
Nguyen Ngoc Thu, an official at the University of Technical Education's Personnel Office, said newly hired lecturers must have one year of probation and their average monthly income would be around VND3 million (US$157), including an allowance of VND500,000 offered by the university.
"Some graduates accept the positions, hoping to get a scholarship to study abroad," Chanh said, adding that many lecturers who received a master's or doctorate abroad then quit and began working for private educational institutions or companies.
The number of university students has increased by 13 times between 1987 and 2009, while the number of lecturers has only tripled, according to a report by the Ministry of Education and Training.
The report said the student-lecturer ratio at universities was higher than the ministry's minimum of 28 students to each lecturer.
In many universities, there are 40 students to each lecturer, according to a survey conducted by the Monitoring Group of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.
The HCM City University of Foreign Languages-Information Technology topped the listing, with a student-lecturer ratio of 47.3-1, followed by HCM City Open University, with 41.2-1, and Hong Bang University in HCM City, with 40.2-1. — VNS
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