Nghe An: Highlights September 16

*On the morning of September 16, at the regular meeting of August 2022,The Provincial Party Standing Committee listened and gave opinions.Results of implementing education - training and vocational education tasks in the 2021 - 2022 school year; tasks for the 2022 - 2023 school year.

In the past time, Nghe An Education sector has achieved 10 outstanding results in preschool and general education; 5 results in vocational education and 5 results in higher education in the 2021-2022 school year; in particular, some results are outstanding compared to the North Central provinces and the whole country.

In particular, Nghe An continues to maintain its position in the top 5 provinces nationwide in terms of excellent students. The quality of comprehensive education has been gradually improved, with the results of the 2022 high school graduation exam ranking 20th nationwide, up 14 places compared to 2021. The province has also prepared the best conditions to ensure the effective implementation of the 2018 General Education Program.

Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy highly appreciated the proactiveness and flexibility of the Education and Training sector, Party committees and authorities at all levels in the difficult context caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, thereby successfully completing the tasks of the 2021-2022 school year.

The Provincial Party Secretary suggested reviewing the education network, because the planning has been in place for a long time while the development process has seen changes in students, teaching staff, and local socio-economic infrastructure. On that basis, research should be done to see if the arrangement options are still suitable in order to calculate and implement them specifically and systematically, avoiding bureaucracy.

At the meeting, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee also agreed to build a model for 6 mountainous districts in Nghe An with 18 schools to pilot the new model of primary and secondary boarding schools for ethnic minorities; pilot boarding schools for ethnic minorities at Ky Son and Que Phong High Schools; discuss solutions to mobilize resources to build a new facility for Phan Boi Chau Specialized High School to ensure the creation of high-quality human resources for the North Central region and international integration.

Overview of the meeting of the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

*Related to the issueRecruiting contract preschool teachers into the payrollAlso at the above meeting, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy requested the Department of Home Affairs to develop a set of recruitment criteria to ensure fairness and objectivity; absolutely no negativity must occur during the recruitment process.

According to the allocation, in the 2022-2023 school year, Nghe An will have 2,820 additional positions, of which 2,164 are for preschool, 498 are for primary, 142 are for secondary and 16 are for high school.

As of May 31, 2022, the entire Nghe An Education sector has a total of 44,005 people, including 3,441 managers, 36,698 teachers and 3,866 employees. However, this is one of the provinces with the highest teacher shortage in the country with over 7,800 positions, of which the highest shortage is at the preschool level.

According to data from the Nghe An Department of Education and Training, as of May 31, 2022, there were 10,870 public preschool teachers at the preschool level, including 8,458 civil servants, 1,777 contract teachers transferred from Decree 06, 44 contract teachers signed by the District People's Committee and 591 short-term preschool teachers signed by the school.

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy concluded the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

*InConference to summarize the work of the School Youth Union - PioneersIn the 2021-2022 school year, the Central Council of the Young Pioneers, the Provincial Department of Education and Training, the Provincial Youth Union, and the Young Pioneers Council of Nghe An province commended and rewarded collectives and individuals with outstanding contributions to the work of the Youth Union - Young Pioneers and the children's movement in the past school year.

The Central Council of the Young Pioneers has decided to reward 28 individuals of Nghe An province with outstanding achievements in the work of the Young Pioneers and children's movement in the 2021-2022 school year.

Representatives of the Department of Education and Training of Nghe An province awarded Certificates of Merit to individuals and groups with outstanding achievements in the Youth Union - Young Pioneers work in the 2021 - 2022 school year. Photo: Thanh Quynh

*On September 16, the Inspector of Nghe An Department of Industry and Trade said that this unit had just fined Binh Tu Private Enterprise (Hamlet 3, Nghia Dong Commune, Tan Ky District) 15 million VND forclose gas stationThis move came after the force conducted a surprise inspection of gasoline trading activities and other related regulations at a number of gas stations in Nghe An province.

Binh Tu gas station closed. Photo: TH

*On September 15, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of the province issued a document on the matter.Mining blasts affect householdsat Pha Danh commune, Ky Son district sent to Nghe An Provincial People's Committee.

This document stated that the Department of Natural Resources and Environment received information about Hong Truong Company Limited's blasting of mineral exploitation affecting households in Kim Da village, Pha Danh commune, Ky Son district, Nghe An province. On September 14, 2022, Nghe An Newspaper published an article "A quarry in Ky Son exploded another blast, damaging a house, a 1-year-old girl had to be hospitalized".

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment requested the Provincial People's Committee to assign the Department of Industry and Trade to preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies to inspect documents related to the use of industrial explosives by Hong Truong Company Limited in general and the explosion at 11:00 a.m. on September 14 in particular.

The quarry is located quite close to Kim Da village's houses. Photo: Tien Hung

*Through the inspection and supervision work from September 12 to present, the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Department, the Police of districts, cities and towns have paid special attention toFire exits at karaoke establishments.

Along with timely inspections to detect violations and problems at karaoke and bar businesses, the authorities have supervised the correction, paying special attention to emergency exits.

Checking fire exits at karaoke establishments. Photo: D.C.

*Due to the impact of floods and rains in recent days, manySummer-autumn rice acreage in the mountainous district of Ky Sonsuffered quite serious damage. Many areas were completely lost, many rice-growing households were at risk of crop failure.

According to data from the Department of Agriculture of Ky Son district, during the two floods from September 4 to 12, in the mountainous district of Ky Son, more than 50 hectares of summer-autumn rice were severely damaged, mainly concentrated in the communes of Chieu Luu, Huu Lap and Pha Danh. Many rice fields were buried under many layers of rock and soil, making it difficult to restore. People in the flooded areas have already faced many difficulties, now the risk of crop failure and hunger is imminent.

Many areas of rice fields were leveled due to recent floods. Photo: Lu Phu