Professor Thai Van Thanh: High-quality human resources must start from the foundation of general education.

That was the exchange of Prof. Dr. Thai Van Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Nghe An, member of the delegation of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee attending the Congress with reporters of Nghe An Newspaper about the orientation to continue to make breakthroughs in fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education - training, and human resource development on the sidelines of the 13th National Party Congress.

Prof. Dr. Thai Van Thanh talks to the press on the sidelines of the 13th National Party Congress. Photo: Nhat Le

PV:Dear Professor, Dr. Thai Van Thanh, as a delegate from the Education and Training sector attending the Congress, what expectations of the provincial Education sector do you bring to the 13th National Party Congress?

Prof. Dr. Thai Van Thanh:Coming to the 13th National Party Congress, Nghe An Education and Training sector hopes that the Congress Resolution will have policies to build autonomous public schools, form advanced schools following the trend of international integration, contribute to comprehensive education for students, and improve the quality of human resources.

Along with that, we continue to pay attention to the team of teachers and managers, especially the team of teachers working in mountainous areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas, islands...

On the other hand, how can we have a mechanism to socialize work in a oriented and reasonable way, improve and enhance facilities and teaching equipment for ethnic minority and mountainous areas, contributing to promoting education in mountainous areas as well as contributing to improving the quality of comprehensive education.

PV:In the next stage, our Party identifies one of the major orientations as continuing tocreate a breakthrough in fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training, develop high-quality human resources and make good use of talents. What is the Professor's opinion on this issue?

Prof. Dr. Thai Van Thanh:With the Resolution of this Congress, we are very excited and confident in the policies and mechanisms; there will be innovations, deepening, creating favorable conditions for the Education and Training sector to develop further in the coming time.

As General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said: Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position and international prestige as today. This is an extremely favorable condition for the sector to continue to make breakthroughs in fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education - training, human resource development, and human development. In particular, it is to perfect the institution and mechanism of socialization of education to mobilize resources - an important condition in the context of international integration and the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Prof. Dr. Thai Van Thanh: "We need to understand that high-quality human resources are not only in university education, but to meet the needs of the labor market and regional and international integration, we must have a very basic foundation in general education training." Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition, mechanisms and policies for the development of Vietnam's education in the context of developing a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration will be issued. Through the 13th Congress, there will also be mechanisms and policies to promote scientific research associated with training, technology transfer and the use of human resources after training. It becomes a "triangle" between research - training and use, linked together. This will create the driving force to promote research, invention, innovation and creative start-ups among students.

The Education and Training sector is also very pleased that the Resolution affirms that the State will continue to increase investment in education and training; perfect policy mechanisms to affirm the view that education and training together with science and technology are the top national policies, creating favorable conditions for the education sector to develop, creating conditions for international integration, meeting the requirements of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, contributing to improving the quality of human resources, especially high-quality human resources and being able to select a number of industries and fields in which Vietnam has strengths to focus on investment, so that these industries can achieve international standards, be on par with the region and reach out to the world.

PV:How will Nghe An Education sector absorb the spirit of the Congress to be able to well implement the above orientation, worthy of the tradition of the land of learning, Professor Thai Van Thanh?

Prof. Dr. Thai Van Thanh:We need to understand that high-quality human resources are not only in university education, but to meet the needs of the labor market and regional and international integration, there must be a very basic foundation in general education training.

Prof. Dr. Thai Van Thanh talks with Nghe An Newspaper reporters on the sidelines of the 13th National Party Congress. Photo: Nhat Le

Therefore, we must plan and organize the system and network - that is the first step. The second step, in the current context of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, we must apply digital technology and digital transformation to improve the quality of education management and school management. At the same time, we must strengthen the connection between local education programs and national programs to comprehensively develop students' personalities.

With such a foundation, when streamlining after junior high school or training at university and college level, it will contribute to improving the quality of training high-quality human resources, meeting the requirements of socio-economic development of the province.

For Nghe An, we need to pay attention to high-quality vocational schools, meaning that if workers want to have quality, they must be trained. The Party Congress Resolution has determined that at least 75% of workers must be trained, so it is necessary to form a plan for a system of high-quality vocational schools that meet regional standards.

The province's planning selection is based on economic restructuring and priority industry selection, focusing on mobilizing investment resources to train industries that meet the province's socio-economic development requirements, achieving ASEAN regional standards and in the future can reach out to the world; contributing to promoting the province's socio-economic development, while creating favorable conditions and opportunities for Nghe An's children to reach out to the world.

PV:Thank you Professor Thai Van Thanh!