Remove the priority points for the high school graduation exam or re-enroll the enrollment?

Quit or not, the controversy has no end

Assoc. Moreover, the priority point is also aimed at training staff for remote areas and solving the problem of economic development for disadvantaged areas.

Mr. Dung analyzed that, thanks to the priority policy, the number of students in rural areas, mountainous and central provinces, has been admitted to university more. After graduation, they return to serve the locality or even stay in the big cities to work and send money back to their hometown to help their families. Thanks to the priority policy in recent years, it has helped reduce the number of lottery ticket sellers from poor provinces.

According to Mr. Dung, the complaint that because of the policy of prioritizing the points, there are high pilots who fail university and low score candidates pass because of the consulting work. Admissions weak, not by priority. In fact, for hot industries, candidates with high test scores are not those with high admission scores, Mr. Dung considers this to be normal. Currently, the regional priority score has been halved since 2018, so there is no disadvantage here, maybe it’s because of candidates when applying for admission. When registering, you have to put many wishes, but if you have high scores, you will fail, of course, and this is the candidate’s fault.

Former Rector of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, said that only when people in all parts of the country have equal economic conditions will they give up regional priorities, and leave now to create conditions for people. Rich people and city dwellers go to university.

According to Assoc. Prof. Bui Hoai Thang, Head of Training Department, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, the essence of priority plus is to create fairness for subjects/regions due to uneven access to general education. . And the fact that candidates who need support and priority when receiving priority points in universities and colleges still have the ability to develop as well as students who have a good level of education in places with general education conditions. better communication.

Candidates with this priority when graduating will contribute to changing political and economic life in disadvantaged areas, and contribute to creating human resources to serve the locality, so the policy is right.

Meanwhile, Master Pham Thai Son, admission director of the University of Food Industry in Ho Chi Minh City, said that no priority should be taken into account because currently students have no learning difficulties. And if there are difficulties, there is a training system such as intermediate, college or university transfer (if there is a need) and a step into university must be equally fair.

Mr. Son said that if keeping priority points because of policies to improve qualifications for mountainous areas and difficult areas, it must be recognized that many human resources such as doctors and engineers are insufficient but redundant. The reason is that in the mountains, wages are too low and private establishments in urban areas have attracted people to work, so there is a local redundancy. So in order to attract and implement the saying that returning to work, you should pay a high salary, have a clear regime for human resources, for example, in mountainous areas, the salary must be from 20 to 30 million, stay and work. It takes 5 years to return to urban areas. Otherwise, whether they go to school or send them to school, learners will tend to stay in urban areas.

How to prioritize candidates so that they are not disadvantaged?

In fact, at many universities, due to the preferential policy of adding points, the candidate with the highest admission score to the school is not the candidate with the highest test score. The reason is that many candidates are given priority points for areas and subjects… Especially this happens in hot industries such as Medicine, Odonto-Stomatology, Computer Technology, Computer Science, Automotive, etc. Korean studies, and military and police schools…

At Pham Ngoc Thach Medical University, Assoc. Prof. Ngo Minh Xuan, Chairman of the School Council, previously the school only recruited candidates with Ho Chi Minh City household registration to meet the human resource needs of the city, so the priority should be near like evenly. Since 2017 until now, the school has expanded to recruit candidates from outside the province, so there are also two benchmarks, that is, the benchmark for candidates with a household registration in Ho Chi Minh City and the benchmark for candidates from outside the province. Following the benchmark scores in recent years, Mr. Xuan said that the benchmark for candidates from outside the province is usually about half a point higher than that of candidates in Ho Chi Minh City, partly because candidates from outside the province are crowded, on the other hand, if points are deducted. If the candidate’s regional preference is given to candidates from outside the province, the benchmark scores at these two levels are the same, so there is no difference in the quality of the input.

Dr. Le Truong Tung, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FPT University, said that due to the differences between regions, priority should be given to developing resources for more difficult areas, reducing the gap between them. disadvantaged students in areas where there are no conditions to study. Therefore, the priority policy is a general policy that cannot be abandoned, the important thing is how the priority is implemented.

According to Mr. Tung, prioritizing by adding points to problematic exams is a situation where many students have extremely high scores, even the valedictorian still fails, while candidates have lower scores due to being added. Prioritizing should have a higher admission score and being admitted is very absurd in terms of expertise.

Therefore, in order not to have this absurdity, it is necessary to “rectify” from universities and admissions units. The “fixing” is very simple to do it in two rows, one with priority, one without priority. Specifically, depending on the training plan, schools will divide percentages of total targets for candidates with priority points and candidates without priority. Thus, the candidates with priority will be in the priority group, and the candidates who do not have the priority will be in the non-priority group, not interrupting and occupying the current position.

Mr. Tung also said that when giving priority to adding points, it is acceptable to reduce input for some specific subjects. Therefore, the school must have a plan to improve the quality of the candidates in the priority row by having a plan of tutoring and supplementing so that the candidates recruited in this row have the same quality as the candidates without priority, Avoid arising problems such as subject debt, not keeping up with the program, dropping out, dropping out of school…

According to Associate Professor Bui Hoai Thang, there is only one way to add priority points currently, which is to add priority points (the ratio is quite high – max 2.75/30 ~ 9.17%), so the convincing power is not high. Whether this can be improved by setting a separate target for each school, not lower than a certain percentage, but the input must still meet the quality assurance standards of the school/sector; Or should only give preferential treatment for the first time to contribute to the training of human resources for the region. In the next time to get a degree, the next time the student enrolls, the adult student should no longer be prioritized.

Le Huyen