Issuing a set of criteria for recognizing families and learning communities

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam requested the Ministry of Education and Training to preside over and coordinate with the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education to issue a set of criteria for evaluating and recognizing the models of "Learning Families", "Learning Clans", "Learning Communities" and "Learning Units" in the form of appropriate documents with the right authority.

The Deputy Prime Minister assigned the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to direct specialized agencies and lower-level People's Committees to carry out the tasks assigned in Decision No. 281/QD-TTg dated February 20, 2014 of the Prime Minister approving the Project "Promoting lifelong learning movement in families, clans, and communities until 2020"; including presiding over and coordinating with the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education and the Ministry of Education and Training to organize the recognition of the titles "Learning Family", "Learning Clan", "Learning Community", "Learning Unit".

Previously, the Prime Minister approved the Project "Promoting lifelong learning movements in families, clans and communities by 2020" with the general goal of promoting regular learning activities and lifelong learning in families, clans and communities through the development and implementation of models of "Learning families", "Learning clans", "Learning communities" and "Learning units", contributing to building a learning society.

The project also clearly states that the models of "Learning Family", "Learning Clan", "Learning Community" and "Learning Unit" will be built and piloted to be widely deployed from 2016 nationwide; striving by 2020: 100% of cadres and members of the Vietnam Association for Promotion of Education will be trained to raise awareness of learning society and lifelong learning models in families, clans and communities; 70% of families will be recognized as "Learning Family"; 50% of clans will be recognized as "Learning Clan"; 60% of communities (villages, hamlets, villages, residential groups and equivalent) will achieve the title of "Learning Community".

For mountainous areas, remote areas, and areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, these rates are 60%, 40% and 50% respectively; 50% of organizations, agencies, schools, units and enterprises achieve the title of "Learning Unit".

Source: Government Office