Mountainous district ranks 3rd in the province in building national standard schools

(Baonghean) - The mountainous district of Quy Chau is ranked 3rd in the whole province in building national standard schools. This result is thanks to the determination, leadership and close direction of Party committees and authorities at all levels, the consensus of all classes of people and the efforts of schools.

Performance by students of Chau Nga Primary School. Photo: Dang Cuong

Chau Hoi 1 Primary School is the first school in Quy Chau district to be recognized as meeting national standards level II in the 2013-2014 school year. Up to now, not only does it have modern facilities and solid classrooms, but the school has enough standard desks and chairs, cooling fans and lighting equipment are also invested synchronously... 100% of the school's teachers have above-standard training qualifications, the rate of excellent teachers at all levels is increased every year, the rate of students completing the class program is 99%, completing the primary school program is 100%; capacity and quality are 100%, students are awarded at the end of the year 70.8%.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Huyen - Principal of the school said: With 100% of the population being ethnic minority children, with many difficulties in life, being able to study in a spacious, fully equipped, and quality school environment not only satisfies the wishes of parents and students, but also motivates the school's teachers to continue to strive and contribute more.

Up to now, Quy Chau district has 31/37 schools meeting national standards, reaching a rate of 83.7%. Accordingly, it is the third-ranked unit in the whole province in building schools meeting national standards. Up to now, the team of teachers and staff has 100% of qualified qualifications, the rate of qualifications above the training standard is 89.3%; the average annual graduation rate of students at all levels is over 97%; the rate of excellent students at all levels increases annually by 10-15%. In the provincial excellent student competitions, Quy Chau is the unit that always maintains and promotes the quality of the excellent student team (high school level ranked first, middle school level ranked second in group B). In the period 2013-2016, there were 7 students who won national prizes in the subjects of Information Technology, English, and Physical Education.

To achieve the above results, Quy Chau district determined that the construction of national standard schools determines the quality of education and human resource development. Since then, every year, the Department of Education and Training has advised local authorities at all levels to include the task of building national standard schools in the socio-economic development resolution; have plans to invest in building facilities, repairing and upgrading classrooms through integrating from project programs in the area, using educational career funds and resources mobilized from socialization to invest in building facilities and teaching equipment, prioritizing investment in schools in the roadmap for building national standard schools according to the motto of not spreading investment...

The total investment cost in the period 2006 - 2010 is 109 billion VND, the period 2010 - 2015 is 75 billion VND. At the same time, the People's Council - People's Committee of the district issued policies and mechanisms to support schools when completing the roadmap to build standard schools... In particular, regularly doing a good job of propaganda and mobilizing socialized education, mobilizing resources from social organizations and people (total mobilized cost in the period 2006 - 2016 reached 18 billion VND).

Class time of students at Chau Nga Kindergarten. Photo: Dang Cuong

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Chau - Head of the Department of Education and Training of Quy Chau district, among the criteria for recognizing national standard schools, the most difficult is still the infrastructure conditions, because it requires a large source of funding. While the district's budget is still limited, the economic conditions of the people are still difficult, and the resources mobilized from the socialization of education to build national standard schools are still modest.

Besides, the mobilization and maintenance of student numbers in schools in difficult areas, especially for middle and high school students, is an issue that schools and localities always have to pay attention to... With the participation and facilitation of the District Party Committee, District People's Committee and the attention and support of the province and all levels and sectors, the difficulties have been gradually resolved and overcome.

The goal of Quy Chau district is to continue to build 3 more national standard schools level 1 by 2020; have 2 primary schools meeting national standard level 2. For schools that have been recognized as meeting standards, the district will annually review and evaluate the criteria according to the roadmap to have a plan to supplement, complete and improve the quality of the criteria; direct schools to continue to strengthen management, innovate teaching and learning methods, be creative, actively respond to emulation movements; focus on improving the quality of comprehensive education to continue to maintain the title of national standard school./.

Quang An