VietNamNet Bridge – Dormitories of many universities and junior colleges refuse to allow students to use Internet services, ignoring their petitions.
Students using Internet for chatting?
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“I can only use a computer to make documents or listen to music, because there is no Internet connection in the dormitory. If I have to use the Internet, I have to go to an Internet café,” said Huong, a student of the Business Administration Faculty.
In fact, there is one room in every building of the dormitory with 30 Internet connected computers. However, the figure proves to be too small, and cannot meet the requirements of the several hundred students in every building.
“The Internet speed of the computers is very slow. Meanwhile, the persons in charge of the rooms are not always there. They only come when they want,” Huong said.
She added that the Internet rooms have been closed recently. Most students have to go to Internet cafés to access the Internet. Those who have laptops often bring their laptops to building 5’s vicinity to catch wifi specifically equipped for the building.
Students have many times asked the university’s leadership to allow them to use the Internet in dormitories, offering to spend their own money to use Internet services. However, they have not been allowed to do that.
The students living in the dormitory of Hanoi Construction Junior College No 1 are facing the same situation.
Vi, a 2nd year student of the Civil Engineering Faculty under the college, said: “I have a high demand for using the Internet because the information available on the Internet proves to be very useful. Besides, I’m now the administrator of several forums, and I have to use the Internet regularly.” He related that he has several times contacted Internet service providers himself, but the college then did not allow him to use the service.
“We have been told simply that the college still cannot have Internet at this moment. Moreover, teachers think that we use the Internet just to play games, and chat with friends, while we don’t use Internet for studying,” he added.
Because of no Internet, many students of the college have left the dormitory for boarding houses, where they can use Internet services.
No Internet because of difficulties in management
Explaining the absence of Internet connection, Trinh Quang Vinh, Headmaster of the Construction Junior College, said: “It is not because we don’t want to have an Internet connection for students in the dormitory. The Internet cable didn’t reach the Trung Van area, where the college is located, until 2008.”
Vinh added that the college is considering connecting to the Internet, but this will take more time. The plan will be implemented when answers can be found for a lot of questions: Who will spend money on the investment, the university or students? How many students will use Internet services? How will the students be managed? Which service provider will be chosen?
Meanwhile, Le Anh Tuan, Head of the Student Management Division under the Hanoi National Economics University, said that it is not difficult to have the Internet connected, but he is worried about the management work, when there are several thousand students in the dormitory.
When asked why the university does not allow students to sign contracts directly with Internet service providers, Tuan said that the Internet cable may affect the existing cable system. Moreover, the university would not be able to manage them if students brought outsiders to the dormitory to fix Internet problems.
When asked why the university still did not allow its students to have Internet connected, when other universities had done this already, Tuan said: “They have their viewpoints, and we hold our viewpoints.”
He added that the solution is that the university will increase the number of public Internet access points in the dormitory.
Cam Quyen
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