The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee gives opinions on the orientation for the 2020 - 2021 school year

Also attending were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrades in the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, leaders of the Provincial People's Committee, Department of Education and Training. Photo: Thanh Duy

NEED TO CONTINUE IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF MASS EDUCATION

In the 2019-2020 school year, Nghe An education sector has proactively and seriously implemented and achieved outstanding and encouraging results. Accordingly, it has focused on activities to build educational and training innovation models in the province, initially effectively implementing the pilot construction of 14 key, high-quality secondary schools in the 2019-2023 period.

The industry has also stepped up investment and strengthened the Stem Education program in local high schools; cooperated with IIG Vietnam Education Organization, and developed a project to establish an International Testing and Training Center in Vinh city.

Director of the Department of Education and Training Thai Van Thanh presented a report on the implementation of tasks for the 2019-2020 school year and orientations for the 2020-2021 school year. Photo: Thanh Duy

The 2018 general education program was implemented on schedule. In the 2019-2020 school year, the entire sector merged, reducing 22 public schools, reducing 42 school locations, and adding 5 private kindergartens; organized 59 training and fostering classes with 678 managers and 2,365 teachers teaching grade 1 in the 2020-2021 school year.

During the past school year, the Education sector also implemented the construction, organized inspections and recognized 137 standard schools, including 43 newly recognized schools; continued to advise on including the content of building national standard schools in the targets and resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels for the 2020-2025 term.

In particular, the sector has continued to maintain and improve the quality of comprehensive education, with a top position nationwide in terms of national, regional and international excellent student results and competitions.

Nghe An students won 1 Gold Medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad, 1 student participated in the team participating in the Asian Informatics Competition; 82/102 students won the national excellent student award; 1 First Prize (Champion) of the 19th Road to Olympia Finals; 1 First Prize in the Youth Competition for Studying and Following Ho Chi Minh's Thought, Morality and Style in 2019 jointly organized by the Ministry of Education and Training; 1 project won First Prize and 1 project won Third Prize in the national science and technology competition.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Nghe An's average score in the 2019-2020 high school graduation exam ranked 32nd nationwide, up 4 places compared to 2019 (ranked 36th) and 10 places compared to 2018 (ranked 42nd).

At the meeting, comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee acknowledged and highly appreciated the results of the education sector in the past school year, especially in the context of being affected by the Covid-19 epidemic; at the same time, raised a number of issues such as: the model of merging schools at the commune level; having more solutions for the next school year in the coordination work to educate ethics and skills for students; management of vocational education institutions; improving the quality of mass education;...

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Son assessed that in the past school year, the quality of mass, spearhead, and comprehensive education has been improved. However, the sector needs to clarify more solutions for coordination between schools, localities, families, and related sectors to ensure security and order in schools, career guidance for students; moral education, life skills, as well as socialization work.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung speaks at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung assessed that, in Nghe An's conditions, the results of the Education and Training sector were extremely positive. Besides, the province also recognized the remaining limitations and is actively implementing solutions to overcome them.

It is a matter of improving and enhancing the status of mass education, foreign language training; equipping students with skills; policies for teachers; relationships between family, school, society, locality;...

SCHOOL MERGER PLAN MUST ENSURE CONVENIENCE FOR STUDENTS

Concluding this content, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy expressed his confidence in the consultation process of the Department of Education and Training for the province.

Going into details, the head of the Provincial Party Committee noted a number of contents, especially the issue of improving foreign language skills for students. Although there is a Project to improve the quality of teaching and learning foreign languages, it is necessary to affirm that the Project is only a push, creating a foundation, and the ultimate goal is to mobilize the political system to participate in creating a widespread foreign language learning movement, deeply penetrating into each family. This is an issue that the industry needs to pay attention to in order to implement.

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy delivered a concluding speech on the implementation of tasks for the 2019-2020 school year and orientations for the 2020-2021 school year.

For the socialization of education, it is necessary to promote it flexibly in places with conditions with a clear and transparent implementation motto. Accordingly, not only socializing the facilities but also taking into account the factor of equipping students with skills and adequate luggage. Implementing well the socialization of education and training so that the province can allocate limited resources for teachers and students, and invest in facilities in mountainous areas; thereby improving mass education in the whole province.

The Provincial Party Secretary also noted that the assignment of teacher recruitment and transfer targets should be avoided at the beginning of the new school year, but should be implemented immediately after the end of the old school year, to have time to stabilize the apparatus and teachers for the new school year.

Sharing with the Education sector about the school network in the province's conditions, comrade Thai Thanh Quy suggested that the sector should boldly research new and suitable directions that both ensure compliance with the conditions and standards prescribed by the Ministry of Education and Training; and are convenient for learners such as the model of inter-level schools in communes... The Department of Education and Training also needs to be proactive in closely coordinating between schools, families, sectors and levels to carry out educational work.

Regarding the management of educational and vocational training institutions such as colleges, universities, and vocational training centers under its authority, the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee needs to have solutions and mechanisms for annual monitoring, management, and evaluation.

Accordingly, the Provincial Party Standing Committee agreed that the report on the implementation of tasks for the 2020-2021 school year should include an assessment of these schools.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee gave his opinion on the Project to foster practical knowledge for cadres and lecturers of the Provincial Political School and District-level Political Center. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Provincial Party Secretary also pointed out the direction to resolve the recommendations of the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee related to the field of Education and Training with the following contents: overcoming the shortage of teachers at the two levels of preschool and primary education; arranging enough teachers to organize teaching 2 sessions/day at primary school level from the 2020-2021 school year; arranging civil servants and public employees to work at the Department of Education and Training to ensure the quantity and job positions;...

Also at this morning's working session, the Provincial Party Standing Committee listened to and gave opinions on the following contents: Plan to use the increased provincial budget revenue in 2019 and the site clearance fund in 2020; Project to foster practical knowledge for cadres and lecturers of the Provincial Political School and District-level Political Center.

The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee gave its opinion on the Regional Planning Project of Nam Dan district until 2035.

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of August 31, at the regular August meeting, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee listened to and gave opinions on the Construction Planning Project of Nam Dan district until 2035. Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired the meeting.