MOLISA plans to spend VND1.3 trillion by 2025 to export 54,000 university graduates to Japan, South Korea, Germany and countries that need trained workers.
Duong Van Chin from Loc Troi Group said he is afraid that the workers, though having higher education level, will have to undertake manual works overseas. If so, this will be a big waste of human resources for Vietnam.
The scenario is likely to happen, because Vietnamese workers’ skills still cannot satisfy the requirements of the countries which need workers, especially foreign language skills.
“I believe that labor import countries will only choose the ones who have good foreign language skills. Don’t you think the export laborers will need interpreters to escort them?” he said.
Vietnam has many highly qualified experts in many different fields and they can be invited to work in other countries. In these cases, it is not Vietnam, but it is the import countries which have to cover expenses to invite specialists.
“When other countries invite Vietnamese specialists, this means they appreciate Vietnamese wisdom,” he said. “It would be better not to bring new university graduates who don’t have experience and foreign language skills.”
Chin believes that the plan to export bachelor’s degree graduates drawn up by MOLISA won’t bring benefits, while it will waste the state’s money.
Nguyen Van My, president of Lua Viet Travel, a visiting lecturer at some universities, also said he has doubts about the feasibility of MOLISA’s plan, commenting the plan ‘is too unrealistic’.
“When we export bachelor’s degree graduates, we expect that they will receive the salaries offered to bachelor’s degree graduates. But I am afraid that import countries would refuse to do that, because they don’t recognize Vietnam’s degree,” he said.
“I know many university graduates who put their bachelor’s degree into drawers and spend big money to obtain the seats to go abroad to work at factories,” My said.
“It is a big waste of time and money of society and students. If you just want to work as factory workers overseas, you don’t need to spend four years at university,” he said.
He said private businesses in Vietnam don’t care much about candidates’ degrees when recruiting workers. They just want workers who can fulfill their tasks.
“What Vietnam is lacking is the workers with real intelligence,” he said.
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