Voters said that currently, each locality applies a separate set of textbooks, leading to the situation of changing textbooks many times, and textbooks of students in this locality cannot be purchased and used. in other localities and propose the Ministry of Education and Training to uniformly and synchronously issue textbooks nationwide.
Recently, responding to the petition of Long An voters sent before the 4th session, the 15th National Assembly, regarding the uniform and synchronous issuance of textbooks nationwide, the Ministry of Education and Training said, Resolution No. /2014/QH13 dated November 28, 2014 of the National Assembly on the renovation of general education programs and textbooks has stipulated: “Textbooks concretize the requirements of the general education program in terms of content education, requirements on student quality and capacity; orientation on educational methods and ways of testing and evaluating educational quality; implementing socialization of compiling textbooks; having a number of textbooks faculty for each subject”.
The Education Law 2019 stipulates: “Textbooks for the implementation of the general education program, specifying the requirements of the general education program in terms of educational goals, contents, requirements on the quality and capacity of the general education students. students; orientation on teaching methods and methods of testing and assessing education quality; content and form of textbooks without prejudices of ethnicity, religion, profession, gender, age and locality. social taste”.
Thus, the role of textbooks under the New General Education Program is different from that of existing textbooks.
Different textbooks are compiled with different materials, images and structures, but they all have the same goal of concretizing the program, in order to meet the requirements to be met for each prescribed educational content. in the program.
Textbooks that are issued and put into use are of guaranteed quality because they must be compiled and appraised in accordance with the provisions of Circular No. 33/2017/TT-BGDĐT dated December 22, 2017 of the Minister of Education and Training (Notice of Circular 33) and Circular No. 23/2020/TT-BGDĐT, Circular No. 05/2022/TT-BGDĐT amending and supplementing a number of articles of standard regulations, and the process of compiling and editing textbooks; standards of organizations and individuals compiling textbooks; organization and operation of the Textbook Appraisal Council issued together with Circular 33 of the Minister of Education and Training.
Implementing Resolution No. 88/2014/QH13 of the National Assembly and the Education Law 2019, the general education program is the legal basis for uniform use in all general education institutions nationwide. In each province/city, textbooks will be used stably and selected by the Provincial People’s Committee.
Therefore, according to the Ministry of Education and Training, students in any province/city will use textbooks according to the list of textbooks issued by the People’s Committee of that province/city. Only a few students who move from one locality to another may have to purchase other appropriate textbooks upon arrival.
