Ministry of Education and Training "rejects" Hanoi Medical University's request
To "save" candidates who scored 9 points per subject but still failed, Hanoi Medical University sent a dispatch to the Ministry of Education and Training requesting to train in a non-budget system. However, in the meeting on the evening of August 7, the leader of the Ministry of Education and Training affirmed: "There is no quota for the non-budget system".
With this move by the Ministry of Education and Training, the opportunity for candidates who took the entrance exam to Hanoi Medical University and scored 26 - 27.5 points but registered for the General Practitioner program has almost closed. The final chance for candidates depends on the decision of the Hanoi Medical University's Admissions Board.
In a quick exchange with Dan Tri reporters right after the meeting ended, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga emphasized: “The viewpoint of the Ministry of Education and Training is that there are no quotas for non-budget training systems. How to set the benchmark to ensure reasonableness is the responsibility of Hanoi Medical University. However, no matter how it is implemented, it must be ensured that it does not exceed the total assigned quota.”
According to Dan Tri's private source, right after the Ministry of Education and Training announces the floor score tomorrow (8/8), the Admissions Council of Hanoi Medical University will meet to decide the admission score. A leader of the Ministry of Education and Training said: "The information that you need 28.0 points to enter the General Practitioner program at Hanoi Medical University is just an unofficial information channel. Only when Hanoi Medical University has a document confirming the admission score and reports to the Ministry will it be official."
Immediately after learning about the Ministry's policy on how to solve the problem of 9 points/subject but still failing the university entrance exam, the deputy director of a large hospital in Hanoi shared: "This is a very regrettable thing because as we know, the medical sector is in need of good doctors. Meanwhile, with a long-standing training tradition, Hanoi Medical University has a reputation both domestically and internationally. The Ministry of Education and Training's refusal to allow Hanoi Medical University to recruit additional non-budgetary students will lead to many consequences of "brain drain" as well as "foreign currency drain".
This deputy director analyzed: “As we know, with a score of 26-27.5, Hanoi Medical University will have hundreds of qualified candidates, but the school only decided to request an additional 150 quotas because when deciding to study in this system, the cost will "increase" a lot and not every family can afford to let their children participate. Families whose children fail the General Practitioner program and have the means will choose to send their children to study medicine abroad in some neighboring countries. Thus, this may have "pushed" potential students to study abroad and of course they can completely stay in their country to work after graduation. More importantly, the cost of studying abroad is much higher than the tuition fee for the non-budget system. Thus, once again, we do not know how to take advantage of this source of cost for domestic training while there is a social need.”
Some other admissions experts believe that the training capacity of Hanoi Medical University is much higher than the total quota this year. This is not difficult to verify when in fact many new schools opening medical training majors have quotas that are not much lower than Hanoi Medical University. The question is whether Hanoi Medical University does not increase its quota to focus on improving quality or because of the lack of mechanisms, they are not "interested"?
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