On the followingnoon of February 15, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha worked with the Ministry of Education and Training on the situation of education and training.
At the meeting, leaders Ministry of Education and Training together with representatives of a number of units reported on the activities of the industry; difficulties and obstacles in the process of implementing fundamental and comprehensive renovation of education and training, especially the implementation of the 2018 General Education Program; policy regime and salary of teachers; the problem of solidifying schools and public houses for teachers in remote areas; university autonomy…
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that the education and training sector is currently in the process of radical and comprehensive renovation. The reform strategy has been fully, deeply and comprehensively expressed by the Central Committee with Resolution 29/NQ-TW. Up to now, the implementation of this innovation scenario has been nearly 10 years and many things are still being implemented.
The sector is consistently paid special attention by the Party and State, considering education as one of the three strategic breakthroughs, the leading national policy for national development, with great expectations and high entrustment. People expect the results of the education and training sector. The future of the country depends a lot on the human factor. Therefore, the development of the industry becomes even more important.
Minister Nguyen Kim Son expressed full awareness of that mission, the whole industry has made every effort to strive, overcome difficulties, gradually innovate and rise. However, in the transition period, the amount of work, challenges, problems, opinions and problems arises. Many policies have been and are continuing to be promulgated and directed to be removed. Therefore, the Ministry of Education and Training hopes that the Deputy Prime Minister in directing shares the problems posed with the industry.
[Bộ GD-ĐT phản hồi về sử dụng sách giáo khoa giáo dục phổ thông 2018]
From the current situation, the Ministry of Education and Training proposes to the Government to consider having a policy on salary and preferential allowances for teachers and education administrators. In the immediate future, in 2023, promulgate a Decree stipulating the preferential allowance regime for teachers who are directly teaching in public educational institutions.
The Government and the Prime Minister direct the ministries and branches assigned to chair the National Target Programs for the period 2021-2025 and 2021-2030 to consider including projects and tasks related to the education sector into the group. the first priority when formulating principles and criteria for allocation of capital plan limits. In which, priority is given to procurement of teaching equipment, renovation and upgrading of facilities, solidification of schools, essential ancillary works serving teaching and learning conditions to ensure basic conditions. material implementation General Education Program 2018.
The Government and the Prime Minister shall direct the ministries, branches and localities to develop and perfect mechanisms and policies to give incentives, support and encourage investment and funding for higher education and educational socialization. universities, including implementing public-private cooperation mechanisms, especially tax incentives and land use policies. Increase the initiative for public higher education institutions in using non-state budget revenues for infrastructure investment and capacity building in education and training activities, scientific research and transfer. Knowledge.
In addition, directing the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities to assess the needs of teacher training in the area, coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training to grant teacher training quotas to the schools. teacher training establishments according to the provisions of Decree No. 116/2020/ND-CP, ensuring timely training and supplying the local shortage of teachers according to practical requirements.
After listening to comments and suggestions from the Ministry of Education and Training, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha affirmed that the education and training sector is an industry with an important mission – the cause of “growing people.” This is an important stage in the socio-economic development of the country. If we don’t pay enough attention to education today, there will be consequences 50-100 years from now.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha concluding the meeting with the Ministry of Education and Training on the education and training situation. (Photo: Thanh Tung/VNA)The Deputy Prime Minister acknowledged the achievements and achievements of the whole industry, especially in the process of implementing the renovation work and over the past two years, the COVID-19 epidemic directly impacted the teaching and learning activities. and study. In difficult times, the industry still maintains safe learning conditions, ensures quality, creative teaching, and promotes faster digital transformation.
However, besides the achieved results, there are still things that the industry has not met the expectations and goals set out. Therefore, difficulties, shortcomings, and weaknesses need to be clearly identified with subjective and objective causes in order to find immediate and long-term solutions, which need to be overcome specifically at which stage and level.
The Deputy Prime Minister asked the education and training sector to focus on solving current outstanding issues such as the implementation of reforming programs and general education textbooks, which are still a bit confusing; Market mechanism somewhere also crept into some policies. The Ministry should propose solutions to promote the socialization of education more in areas with development conditions so that State resources can be focused on investing in remote and disadvantaged areas. Many policies are now just slogans on paper. It is important for the Education and Training sector to propose solutions to realize and implement effectively in practice.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha emphasized that education and training must always have the spirit of innovation and lead innovation. Therefore, the Ministry needs to coordinate with sectors, localities and businesses to make forecasts on science and technology development to have appropriate training objectives and create valuable educational products. keep pace with the needs of the market.
Universities must be associated with research, bringing to market the products that society needs, according to the orders of businesses. The Ministry of Education and Training needs to complete the assessment frameworks, come up with criteria and standards to monitor the outputs, and properly assess the true capabilities of students.
With the recommendations and proposals of the Ministry of Education and Training, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said that he will continue to work more deeply with the industry on each issue to soon issue appropriate policies and strategies for the Ministry of Education and Training. education and training in the future.
Viet Ha (VNA/Vietnam+)
