Innovating coordination methods to build a safe and healthy educational environment

On the afternoon of October 9, the Department of Education and Training held a conference to review the coordination work to build a safe and healthy educational environment, prevent accidents, injuries, and social evils.

For many years, the Department of Education and Training has signed a cooperation program with the Provincial Police, Provincial Youth Union, and associations at all levels such as the Women's Union, Veterans Association, Education Promotion Association, Former Teachers' Association, Association of Psychology and Education Science, Nghe An Newspaper, Nghe An Radio and Television Station in many fields.

Director of the Department of Education and Training Thai Van Thanh speaks at the conference. Photo: MH

Particularly, the program of coordination to build a safe and healthy educational environment, prevent accidents, injuries, and social evils has been implemented for over a year with many practical contents.

In particular, attention has been paid to propaganda and moral and lifestyle education with topics on preventing and combating school violence, improving communication and behavioral culture, propaganda on traffic safety, use of social networks, and drug prevention and combat.

Nghi Loc District Police disseminate the Road Traffic Law to students of Nguyen Duy Trinh High School. Photo: PV

In addition, promptly coordinate to grasp and handle information and incidents arising from violations by students and teachers, establish interdisciplinary inspection teams at facilities to contribute to ensuring security and order at educational facilities, creating an environmenteducationsafe, healthy, friendly both inside and outside school.

At the preliminary conference, representatives of the units also pointed out the difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process. In particular, they analyzed the shortcomings and limitations in the implementation of building a safe and healthy educational environment, preventing and combating accidents, injuries, and social evils.

Currently, the number of students who die in accidents every year,drowningin the area is still quite high. In 2 years alone (2019, 2020), there were 147 student deaths, most in Yen Thanh, Quynh Luu, Thanh Chuong districts.

Besides, school violence has decreased but still occurs, in some cases students film video clips and post them online, causing outrage in society.

In addition, there is still a state of insecurity in schools. Meanwhile, the coordination of education between schools and families still faces many difficulties. Some localities and units have not attached importance to propaganda and education on popularizing laws related to children and students...

The Department of Education and Training inspects the safety of trees at schools in Nghia Dan district. Photo: MH

Speaking at the conference, Director of the Department of Education and Training Thai Van Thanh acknowledged and highly appreciated the coordination role of agencies and units, which helped the education sector complete its assigned tasks. Based on the achieved results, in the coming time, we will continue to innovate propaganda methods and content; strengthen the organization of exchange activities and competitions on culture, arts, physical education and sports. The implementation of activities will be associated with emulation movements and school year tasks to improve efficiency and coordination programs./.