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IT training lags behind
The nation's universities and colleges have stepped up IT departments over the past decade, but the quality of training is still limited due to educators' inadequate foreign language abilities and professional knowledge, says Quach Tuan Ngoc, Director of the Department of Information Technology of the Ministry of Education and Training.
After finishing from university IT programmes, students must still take part in professional training courses and pass examinations to receive IT certifications from such software companies as Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco before meeting their employment requirements, Ngoc noted.
Domestic universities trained at a common level and based on general theory, agreed a Former Deputy Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Mai Liem Truc.
The universities failed to focus on the specific requirements of enterprises, and students took too much time to accommodate to the work after graduating, said Nguyen Ngoc Long, assistant dean of Ton Duc Thang University in HCM City.
Most employers reported that graduates took three to six months to gain new skills before employers could assign them to regular duties, Long said.
For instance, the Viet Nam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has trained about 5,000 employees and expected to spend about VND500 billion (US$25 million) on human resources training over the next 5-10 years.
Some companies hesitated to invest in Viet Nam because of the poor human resource quality, said the chairman of a foreign-invested technology corporation who asked to remain unnamed.
The General Director of domestic software giant FPT, Truong Gia Binh, said member enterprises of the Viet Nam Software Association should invest directly in human resources training.
Universities are drawing on the State budget to increase training quality and help students improve their skills.
"Universities and colleges have recognised the working requirements of society, software and telecommunications companies. They will train students according to those requirments to meet demand," said Ngoc.
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