Difficulties in eliminating vocational training points for students entering grade 10

Comrade Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting. Photo: Minh Chi

Speaking at the meeting, Ms. Truong Thi Thanh Huong - Director of Nghe An General Technical and Vocational Guidance Center said that one of the functions and tasks of the unit is to open classes to teach technology, engineering, general vocational training and career counseling for students, including vocational training for secondary school students.

Recently, thanks to the policy of adding points for vocational secondary school students when taking the 10th grade entrance exam, the number of vocational secondary school students has increased; however, starting from the 2018-2019 school year, the additional points will be removed, which will certainly cause difficulties in performing the functions and tasks of the center.

Ms. Huong affirmed that vocational training for secondary school students aims to provide career guidance and vocational counseling to students, thereby streamlining students. This is an activity with an important role and meaning, contributing to reducing waste in training work, and at the same time overcoming the current situation of "too many teachers, not enough workers".

Therefore, the Director of the Nghe An General Technical - Vocational Guidance Center requested the Provincial People's Committee and the Department of Education and Training to pay attention to developing vocational education and in-depth career counseling for high school students; thereby rearranging the organization and restructuring the team to operate effectively.

Ms. Truong Thi Thanh Huong - Director of Nghe An General Technical and Vocational Guidance Center said that the province needs to pay attention to developing vocational education and in-depth career counseling for high school students. Photo: Minh Chi

Through research, the working group assessed that the Provincial Center for Continuing Education and the Nghe An Center for General Technical and Vocational Guidance have paid attention to arranging the internal organization of the unit, such as the Nghe An Center for General Technical and Vocational Guidance has reduced from 8 to 6 departments, professional and technical groups; the Provincial Center for Continuing Education currently has 5 departments, professional groups.

The management and use of staff in the units are ensured in accordance with regulations, with 41 staff at the Provincial Continuing Education Center and 31 staff at the Nghe An General Technical - Vocational Guidance Center. Therefore, the human resources at the 2 centers are multi-functional, 1 person performs many tasks or exceeds the teaching quota.

At the meeting, members of the monitoring delegation were concerned with many issues, including clarifying whether the functions, tasks and recruitment were linked to the functions and tasks of each unit; training and fostering of staff; autonomy in public service units; proactive arrangement and readiness to merge units with similar functions and tasks in the spirit of Resolution 6 of the Central Committee (12th term).

Mr. Tran Lam Son - Director of the Provincial Center for Continuing Education affirmed that the unit's organizational structure has been streamlined and operates effectively. Photo: Minh Chi

Deputy Chief of the Provincial People's Council Office Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa raised a number of suggestive issues for the units: Nghe An General Technical - Vocational Guidance Center is enjoying 100% of the budget and needs to research to implement autonomy, while the Provincial Continuing Education Center needs to increase the autonomy rate, thereby reducing expenditure sources and reducing the number of people receiving salaries from the budget.

Along with that, according to Ms. Hoa, units also need to research and expand fields and subjects to promote the socialization of professional activities and operate more effectively.

Concluding the meeting, in addition to acknowledging the seriousness in the arrangement of organizational apparatus, management and use of payroll and contracts of the units, Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council Cao Thi Hien affirmed that the requirement to arrange and merge units with similar functions and tasks is a common policy to ensure more effective operations. Therefore, the units need to be proactive and pay attention to doing a good job of ideological work among the staff and workers.

Comrade Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council concluded the meeting. Photo: Minh Chi

At the same time, units need to proactively research, calculate, and develop their own projects to continue to arrange and reduce at least 1 department and professional team according to the province's policy.

At the same time, units need to re-screen their teams, select capable and dedicated people to arrange and assign appropriately, and identify those who do not meet the requirements to gradually streamline, ensuring a 10% reduction in staff in each unit.