5 North Central provinces attend conference on education promotion work

Attending the conference were comrade Nguyen Hong Son - Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education, leaders of provincial Associations for Promoting Education in the provinces of the North Central region.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Vo Van Dung - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, representatives of a number of relevant departments, branches and sectors.

In 2023, despite difficulties due to the impact of natural disasters and floods, with the attention and direction of the Central GovernmentAssociation for Promotion of EducationThanks to the support of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Committees of the provinces, the coordination of the Fatherland Front Committee and departments, branches, and organizations, the support of the people, and the efforts of the learning promotion associations at all levels, the work of promoting learning, promoting talents, and building a learning society is still being carried out according to the plan and content set out. In addition, the organization of the association at all levels is being consolidated and stabilized, and operating in an orderly manner.

The work of promoting learning and talent to build a learning society has been given much attention and promoted. Thanks to that, the awareness and responsibility of cadres, party members, association members and people in the work of promoting learning and talent and building a learning society has been significantly raised.

With many new approaches based on diversifying fund mobilization forms, in 2023, the Education Promotion Fund of the provinces in the cluster mobilized 709.7 billion VND (an increase of 46.3 billion VND compared to 2022); support expenditure was 443.4 billion VND.

In Nghe An, in 2023, the Associations at all levels from the province to the grassroots level mobilized over 115 billion VND (an increase of 28.1 billion VND compared to 2022), of which the Provincial Education Promotion Fund mobilized nearly 14.5 billion VND from organizations and individuals. In particular, the Education Promotion Funds at all levels from the province to the grassroots level have paid out scholarships and awards to more than 144,300 students with over 72.1 billion VND; the Provincial Education Promotion Fund has also coordinated with relevant agencies to award scholarships and awards to students and teachers worth over 6.2 billion VND.

At the meeting, representatives of the Education Promotion Associations of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Ha Tinh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An provinces shared many experiences in mobilizing the Education Promotion Fund. At the same time, they discussed solutions to overcome existing problems and difficulties in the implementation process, such as policies for part-time education promotion officers, grassroots education promotion officers, fund mobilization forms that are not yet diverse, difficulties in building a learning society, lifelong learning, reward criteria, etc.

Speaking at the conference, Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education Nguyen Hong Son acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of the Association for Promoting Education Cluster 4 of the North Central provinces. At the same time, he affirmed that the emulation cluster 4 is one of the leading clusters in the country in promoting education.

Entering 2024, the leaders of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education suggested that provinces continue to strengthen and develop the association and its members; organize training and professional development on education promotion for association officials at all levels, especially continuing to train the toolkit for evaluating the Learning Citizen model to meet the progress according to the planned roadmap.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen coordination with socio-political organizations; professional societies and social organizations, press agencies and relevant authorities to do a good job of propaganda, promote the movement to encourage learning, and build a learning society in localities.

At the same time, strengthen the mobilization, construction and development of the Scholarship Fund from all resources. Improve the quality and value of scholarships. Use the fund publicly, transparently and for the right subjects.