National Education Conference 2020

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha chaired the Conference.

At Nghe An bridge, comrades Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Thai Van Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Director of the Department of Education and Training chaired the Conference.

Complete the tasks in a "special" school year

The conference took place in the context that Vietnam has just experienced a difficult school year due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic. Speaking at the opening of the conference, Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha said that this was a "special" school year, full of difficulties and challenges for the education sector.

Delegates at Nghe An bridge point. Photo: My Ha

However, with the efforts of the entire industry and localities, last school year the education sector successfully implemented the "dual" goal of ensuring safety in epidemic prevention and control and completing the school year plan, especially organizing nearly 4 months of remote teaching and learning well.High school graduation exam 2020.The conference also reviewed the industry's achievements in the 2016-2020 period.

At the conference to summarize the school year, Hanoi, Yen Bai provinces and many other localities had many opinions to effectively implement the tasks of the 2020-2021 school year such as reviewing and adjusting the staffing levels.teacherTo suit the reality and regional differences, it is necessary to review the criteria for recognizing national standard schools, especially for schools after mergers.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the online conference. Photo: My Ha

In addition, many opinions say that the Ministry needs to pay attention to opinions surrounding the implementation of the new textbook program for first graders to suit the program and the psychology of students. At the same time, it is necessary to pay attention to investing in school facilities and equipment to ensure conditions for "teachers to promote creativity and students to promote intelligence".

Speaking at the conference,Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trungagreed with the report of the Ministry of Education and Training on the results achieved in the past time. He affirmed that Nghe An always pays attention to leadership and direction; focuses all investment resources, giving priority to the development of education, training and human resources of the province.

In recent times, Nghe An has always paid attention to planning, arranging, merging schools, and satellite schools, ensuring students' rights and implementing educational innovation. Mobilizing many resources to invest in facilities and teaching equipment to gradually synchronize and standardize; focusing on schools in mountainous and disadvantaged areas. Regularly paying attention to supplementing sufficient quantity and improving the quality of teachers with good qualities, prestige, and capacity, meeting the requirements of the 2018 General Education Program.

In the 2019-2020 school year, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, Nghe An still successfully implemented many innovative programs in teaching and learning. In the photo: Stem class of students at Hung Dung 2 Primary School (Vinh city). Photo: MH.

Thanks to the efforts of the whole province, the quality of key education and comprehensive education has been affirmed. In particular, the results of excellent students at national, regional and international levels have continuously ranked among the top in the country. By the 2018-2019 school year, Nghe An was the province with the highest number of students winning prizes in all international excellent student competitions; every year the number of students with high scores in the high school graduation exam was among the top in the country. Recently, Vinh city is one of two cities in Vietnam recognized by UNESCO as a "global learning city".

To effectively implement the orientation for the 2021-2025 period and the tasks for the 2020-2021 school year of the industry, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province proposed 3 issues:

+ Add 7,843 preschool and general education teacher positions for Nghe An province; has been submitted by the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision.

+ Support Nghe An to strengthen the construction of facilities and supplement teaching equipment according to the requirements of the 2018 General Education Program.

+ Pay attention to supporting Nghe An to build a model of socialization of boarding and semi-boarding schools for ethnic minorities in mountainous districts and difficult areas.

Don't lose faith in the innovation process.

Concluding the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam acknowledged the results achieved in the past school year.

Regarding the shortcomings and negative aspects of the education sector that have been reported in recent times, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam suggested that we should look at them calmly. We must identify that innovation is a continuous process and the implementation process requires adjustments and recognition of each issue as right and wrong. Therefore, we should not lose faith in the process of educational innovation.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam delivered a concluding speech at the conference. Photo: My Ha.

The Deputy Prime Minister also requested that departments and branches pay attention to education work.

In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the concept of culture in education. Education must involve the whole population and everyone must participate in educational work, especially education outside of school. The Deputy Prime Minister reminded the whole industry to understand: When people are still interested in education, the country will be blessed. Therefore, praise and criticism mean that people are still interested in education.

In the coming time, education also needs to move towards international integration. The State is responsible for ensuring enough schools, enough classes, enough teachers for students. It is not because of streamlining the payroll that schools lack teachers. Moving towards diversifying general education, we must implement equality in education; not have too many specialized schools and selective classes; gradually eliminate cramming, passive learning, lack of critical thinking, formality, and inconvenience in education...

Students of Nam Can 1 Primary School (Ky Son) maintain many beautiful traditions in school. Photo: My Ha

The Deputy Prime Minister also emphasized that in the process of innovation, it is necessary to know how to be selective, there are "old but good" things that need to be preserved such as youth union work in schools, physical education movements...