The Provincial Association for Promotion of Education surveyed over 6,000 students in difficult circumstances to call for support and award scholarships.

On the morning of August 4, the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education held a conference to continue to thoroughly implement the Prime Minister's decisions on promoting education, promoting talents, building a learning society in the period of 2021 - 2030, launching the emulation movement "Nghe An Promotion of Education Month" for the 21st time, 2023.

Up to this point, the organizational systemAssociation for Promotion of Educationhas been widely developed throughout the province with nearly 4,100 learning promotion associations of blocks, hamlets, villages, and communes; nearly 9,300 learning promotion committees of clans, hometown associations; over 2,300 learning promotion committees of agencies and units. The whole province has nearly 850,000 members, reaching a rate of over 23.75%. Of which, in the first 6 months of 2023 alone, there was an increase of 7,000 members compared to 2022.

In order to promote learning and talent, in the past time, the Provincial Association has coordinated with relevant sectors and agencies to advise the Provincial People's Committee to approve the plan "Promoting lifelong learning movement in families, clans, communities, and units" and the plan "Building a model of learning citizens"; organized working sessions and signed coordination programs with the Department of Education and Training, the Provincial Labor Federation and a number of sectors, branches, and organizations.

In addition, the Provincial Association has developed a plan to deploy pilot models in the districts; at the same time, it has coordinated and guided the District Associations to organize training courses to implement the plan "Promoting lifelong learning movements in families, clans, communities, and units in the period of 2021-2030" and "Building a model of learning citizens in the period of 2021-2030". Thanks to that, up to now, 15/21 districts, cities, and towns have organized training courses to thoroughly grasp the programs and plans and deploy software to evaluate learning citizens in the area.

The registration to build and develop learning models has been effectively implemented with 87% of families registering for Learning Families; 86% of clans registering for Learning Clans; 93% of communities registering for Learning Communities; 93% of units registering for Learning Units and 40% of citizens registering for Learning Citizens.

In recent times, the Association for the Promotion of Education at all levels has been active, proactive and creative in mobilizing funding sources for the Fund for the Promotion of Education. At the same time, many forms of support have been created for students in difficult circumstances, many rewards have been given to students and adults with academic achievements, and teachers in difficult circumstances have been supported to strive to complete their tasks well.

In particular, in 2023, the Provincial Association surveyed over 6,000 students in difficult circumstances who have excelled in their studies and those with high achievements in national and international exams to gradually call for support and long-term scholarships for students in especially difficult circumstances.

In the first 6 months of 2023, the Provincial Education Promotion Fund received nearly 3.5 billion VND in scholarships; of which more than 1.5 billion VND was awarded to students and teachers. The Education Promotion Fund at all levels mobilized over 72 billion VND, of which more than 52.2 billion VND was spent on scholarships and awards for more than 88,000 students.

At the conference, delegates from the District Associations shared their experiences in implementing activities from the grassroots level, mobilizing funds for education promotion, education promotion work, training for members to use software to evaluate citizen learning...

From now until the end of 2023, the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education will focus on organizing inspections of the replication and implementation of learning models across the province to gain experience and gradually improve the effectiveness of the plan's goals.

At the same time, continue to advise the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee to issue documents directing the work of promoting education in the new situation, advise on the development of the Project "Building and developing the Education Promotion Fund of Nghe An province for the period 2023-2030"; request the policy of mobilizing agencies, businesses, philanthropists, collectives and individuals to participate in supporting the Education Promotion Fund.

The Association will also continue to sign cooperation programs with departments, branches, and social organizations on education promotion, education socialization, and building a movement to promote education at the grassroots level.

On this occasion, the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education evaluated the results of the implementation of Decision 387/QD-TTg and Decision 677/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on approving the Program "Promoting lifelong learning movement in families, clans, communities, and units for the period 2021-2030"; "Building a model of Learning Citizens for the period 2021-2030".

The Provincial Association for Promotion of Education and the grassroots Associations for Promotion of Education have also officially launched and implemented the emulation movement "Nghe An Promotion of Education Month" for the 21st time. This is an annual activity, continued and strongly developed by the Associations for Promotion of Education at all levels, widely responded to by the people, social organizations, and businesses, bringing many good results and having a strong influence throughout the province.

The 21st "Nghe An Learning Promotion Month" will be launched from August 15 to the end of September 2023./.