The Ministry of Education and Training is seeking comments on the Draft Circular promulgating the Regulations on High School Graduation Exams in 2025. The Draft has many new points, including a notable change that no longer stipulates the addition of vocational training points in the high school graduation exam. There are currently two streams of opinions supporting and opposing this issue.
Some people think that if we remove extra points for vocational students, it will go against the promotion of vocational education and training; it will risk reducing the number of students registering for vocational training, making vocational education and training more difficult.
How does this actually work?
Learn a trade to get extra points
In fact, the current vocational training of students is not for the purpose of streamlining and career guidance to help them access the professions they have studied early, but the main purpose is to get extra points when considering high school graduation.
To convince public opinion, the Ministry of Education and Training needs to collect statistics on how many high school students continue to study a profession or apply the profession they have learned to their lives after graduating from high school to evaluate whether the vocational training goal has achieved the purpose of streamlining and approaching career orientation as set out or not? In reality, vocational training of students is not really as effective as expected.
Students only study occupations that are easy to get extra points for, while few or no students study other occupations because it is difficult to get high scores in vocational exams. In addition, students are not allowed to choose occupations based on their interests and abilities, but only study occupations that are taught in schools (vocational colleges).
Draft Circular promulgating the Regulations on High School Graduation Exams in 2025 no longer stipulates the addition of vocational training points in high school graduation consideration.
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Not to mention that both male and female students study the same profession while the needs and abilities of each student are different. Female students tend to be interested in making cakes, arranging flowers, cooking, sewing, etc., but many schools do not teach them. On the contrary, male students tend to be interested in IT, electricity, and repair, but schools do not teach them.
It is worth mentioning that after finishing the exam, students do not care about these jobs but only worry about continuing to study, reviewing cultural subjects to pass the high school graduation exam and have the opportunity to go to university. Very few students continue to study to develop the career they learned in high school because, as mentioned, they study a job mainly to get extra points.
No points added for fairness
Is the organization of vocational training and exams guaranteed to be of good quality, truly objective and serious?
In fact, many vocational schools today have limited facilities, and many vocational teachers do not have vocational certificates suitable for teaching. Therefore, it leads to a waste of money and time of students when participating in vocational training.
Meanwhile, students who do not study vocational training are at a disadvantage when considering high school graduation (because they do not have vocational points). Currently, parents do not want their children to study vocational training because it affects their cultural studies, but if they do not study, they will be at a disadvantage when considering high school graduation. So whether they want it or not, students "race" to study vocational training to get points and 100% of students who take vocational exams get extra points because very few students fail vocational exams.
With the above reality, the Ministry of Education and Training has a reason to remove the regulation of adding vocational points in the high school graduation exam. Knowing that vocational training is necessary in the current situation of "too many teachers and not enough workers", but is it necessary for students who are studying culture to learn a trade? While they are studying culture with a not-so-light program and following a combination of subjects oriented towards a career, adding vocational points is unnecessary.
Students who want to learn a trade should voluntarily register to study, only then can their vocational abilities be developed. In addition, vocational points are not added in the high school graduation exam to create fairness in the selection based on cultural knowledge, not allowing students to "fail" because they do not have vocational points.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/bo-quy-dinh-cong-diem-nghe-xet-tot-nghiep-thpt-vi-sao-185241027201511697.htm
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