Le Thi My Hanh, a trainee lecturer at A junior college in central Since May this rule has been in effect at Fresh graduates who Duc Tri has recruited as trainee teachers are required to work as factory workers if they were enrolled in a technical program in college, and as office workers if they have a degree in such areas as accounting, finance, and tourism, Hung elaborated. The trainee lecturers are paid a small salary in addition to the income they earn at their companies, the president added. “But they have to submit to us a monthly report of what they are doing at their workplaces,” Hung said. One of such trainee lecturers, Nguyen Thi Hung, has been employed as an assembly line worker at MBCMT, a producer of electronic parts at an industrial park, for almost a month. Hung applied to be a lecturer in electrical engineering at Duc Tri after she earned a degree from the Da Nang University of Technology in June. “I was shocked when the school asked me to work as a factory worker at a company before I can teach,” she said. “But they presented a convincing argument: lecturers should gain hands-on experience of what they will teach to their students.” Hung has realized what is out there in real life is far different from what she was taught at university after working for a while at the company. “I can imagine now what my future students will have to do after they graduate,” the trainee teacher said. Another trainee teacher, Le Thi My Hanh, is working as a receptionist at a hotel in Lien Chieu District as required by Duc Tri. Hanh had asked to teach tourism at the junior college upon graduating from the Da Nang University of Economics, and been told to find a job in hospitality to get practical experience. “This a novel and good idea, as fresh graduates like me have little experience, so working in the industry related to what they will lecture is going to make them more confident in the lecture hall later,” Hanh said. Right before Hanh’s case was Nguyen Thi Thu, who is both a trainee tourism lecturers at Duc Tri and a tour guide at a travel agency in “Currently many businesses have to provide re-training to new recruits,” Hung, the president, said, “so we expect our lecturers to teach what is needed in reality to their students by requesting them to work for enterprises in the very first place.” Local educators have long complained that TUOI TRE |
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