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Comments on the draft political report of the 20th Provincial Party Congress, term 2025 - 2030:Modernizing general education – a strategic “push” for Nghe An to develop sustainably

Mai Hoa (written) • July 24, 2025 10:08

With nearly 40 years of experience in the Nghe An education sector, Meritorious Teacher Le Tien Hung - former member of the Provincial Party Committee, former Director of the Nghe An Department of Education and Training, has made in-depth analyses and specific proposals revolving around the content of human resource development, especially emphasizing the role of general education and the strategy of education modernization.

Plum Blossom(Note) • July 23, 2025

I am really impressed with the vision and aspiration expressed in the draft Political Report of the 20th Provincial Party Congress, term 2025 - 2030, especially the identification of three strategic breakthroughs: institutional breakthrough, infrastructure development breakthrough, and human resource development breakthrough. In particular, Nghe An has a special advantage to create a breakthrough in human resources; this is not only an urgent requirement in the next 5 years but also a long-term strategic problem for the next 10 years, 20 years, creating a foundation for Nghe An to "stand shoulder to shoulder" with the leading localities in the country.

To have quality human resources, the starting point must be education; in which, general education plays a fundamental role, deciding the stature and quality of future generations. The gratifying and encouraging results of Nghe An general education are that the key quality is always in the leading group nationwide, and the mass quality has also made steady progress. This is an issue that needs to continue to pay special attention to, in order to both maintain stability in achievements and promote further in the context of deep international integration and the requirement for fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training more strongly than today; therefore, the province needs a big "push" for general education.

To develop general education, I think it is necessary to modernize general education in terms of conditions; focus on building a team of managers and teachers with quality not only at the national level but also at the international level, on the basis of budget investment to select "elite" teachers and teachers from the talented people to study, research, approach and exchange with advanced and modern education systems in the region and in the world to go ahead and take the lead in developing modern education for the province. When this is done, it will spread and improve the quality of the entire teaching staff, contributing to promoting the development of education and training in Nghe An in the new period.

Along with taking care of the teaching staff, the province also needs to invest in modernizing general education, including school and classroom facilities and teaching equipment; associated with a strong focus on digital transformation, digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence and thinking about satellite coverage, cloud intelligence, etc., based on international core technologies, in order to "take shortcuts and get ahead" in comprehensive and equitable educational development between regions.

Regarding the field of higher education and vocational education; although Nghe An has many universities, vocational schools and professional schools, as frankly pointed out in the draft political report, it "has not kept up with the development requirements. Human resources, especially highly qualified human resources and qualified human resources with vocational skills, have not met the requirements of the labor market in both quantity and quality". Therefore, the province needs to research to have specific targets and strong enough solutions, breakthroughs and breakthroughs for this field in the draft political report as a basis for focused leadership and drastic direction.

In my opinion, the province needs to choose a number of industries and professions in which universities and vocational schools have strengths to focus on investing resources and conditions, ensuring that schools and Nghe An workers meet the needs of the labor market in the province and the whole country, while accessing and integrating with the regional and international labor market; at the same time, paying due attention to the goals and tasks of development, thoroughly promoting the strengths of Nghe An people.

Nghe An's education and training development is identified as a superior strength in the whole country; hopefully in the new term 2025 - 2030, on the basis of clearly identifying comparative advantages, the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee will have the leadership, direction, investment at the right level and resolute implementation, so that the province's human resource education and training will have a breakthrough development and mark the whole country, contributing to soon making Nghe An a fairly developed province by 2030.

In addition to my concerns and enthusiasm in contributing to the political report on the field of education and training, I think that by 2030, Nghe An will become a fairly developed province in the country, a national growth pole, so we need to pay attention to the comprehensive development of Western Nghe An.

To realize this task, the draft political report needs to dedicate a separate section to making the development of the Western region a very central and urgent task, from which to propose special leadership and direction solutions as well as comprehensive investment in infrastructure, economy, education, health, etc., to shorten the development gap, especially exploiting potentials and strengths, creating even development between urban areas, plains and mountainous areas, border areas, and ethnic minorities./.