The movement to encourage learning and talent contributes to arousing the tradition of studiousness of Nghe An people.

On the occasion of Vietnam Education Promotion Day (October 2), Nghe An Newspaper had an interview with Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hien - Chairman of the Provincial Education Promotion Association.

PV:Sir, in 2023, Nghe An Provincial Association for Promotion of Education has gone through 25 years of establishment and development. During the past period of operation, could you please tell us what outstanding results the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education has achieved?

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hien:Nghe An Provincial Association for Promotion of Education was established by the Provincial People's Committee under Decision No. 1173/QD-UB dated June 26, 1998. Up to now, the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education has gone through 5 congresses and by 2023, Nghe An Provincial Association for Promotion of Education will have completed 25 years of establishment and development.

Looking back at 25 years of operation, the Nghe An Provincial Association for Promotion of Education has made positive developments and is operating more and more effectively. Up to now, the association has covered 100% of communes, wards, towns, villages, hamlets, residential groups, agencies, units, schools, with thousands of branches, study promotion committees and hundreds of thousands of members; the movement to build families, clans, communities, and learning units has had many positive changes; thousands of clans, village communities, hamlets, blocks, and neighborhoods have achieved the title of "Learning Clan", "Learning Community", hundreds of thousands of families have achieved the title of "Learning Family", many agencies, units, and schools have achieved the title of "Learning Unit".

In particular, in 2020, Vinh city was recognized by UNESCO as a member of the "Global Network of Learning Cities". Promoting its role, the association at all levels has actively mobilized resources to support and improve facilities for schools and classrooms, support scholarships for students in difficult circumstances, and excel in their studies, with a total amount of hundreds of billions of VND and many other artifacts, which have aroused and promoted the tradition of studiousness, building a widespread learning society in all communities.

Many families, thanks to the support of the Education Promotion Fund, have been able to ensure their children and grandchildren's education... These meaningful, practical and humane activities have made an important contribution to improving the quality of education and training in the province in recent times.

PV:During the process of building and developing, the Association for Promotion of Education from the provincial to the grassroots levels has implemented many movements to promote education, especially the two emulation movements "Month of Promotion of Education" and "Tet of Promotion of Education" which have been carried out annually since 2003. Could you share more about these two meaningful movements?

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hien:Since 2003, drawing on experience in the process of building and developing emulation movements to encourage learning and the need to create highlights and climaxes in emulation movements to encourage learning, the Provincial Association for Promoting Learning has issued a resolution to continue promoting emulation movements to encourage learning, launching the first emulation movements "Month of Promoting Learning" and "Tet of Promoting Learning" in Nghe An. The emulation movement "Month of Promoting Learning in Nghe An" takes place annually from mid-August to the end of September. The emulation movement "Tet of Promoting Learning in Nghe An" takes place annually from mid-December to January.

The main purpose of the two movements "Month of Learning Promotion" and "Tet of Learning Promotion" is to create a widespread learning promotion movement throughout the province to compete to achieve many achievements to celebrate important historical events of the country, of the Vietnam Association for Learning Promotion, on the occasion of preparing for the new school year every year and on the occasion of the traditional national New Year.

Over 25 years of construction and development, the movements have taken place widely at all levels of the association in the whole province, contributing significantly to the overall results of the movement to encourage learning, encourage talents, and build a learning society. Currently, the association organization and members continue to be consolidated and developed in both quantity and quality. The emulation titles of studious families, studious clans, and learning promotion communities are increasing.

In particular, the work of building and mobilizingScholarship Fundis focused and developed, the average fund amount of the following year is higher than the previous year. Accordingly, if in 2003, we mobilized 9.5 billion VND, by 2022 it will be 68.2 billion VND. In the period 2004-2022, the whole province mobilized over 742.5 billion VND and organized the awarding of over 2.88 million scholarships to poor students who overcome difficulties, rewarded students who study well and have talents in various fields; encouraged, supported, and helped teachers overcome difficulties with over 564.4 billion VND.

Another noteworthy thing is that from 2 movements, 2 emulation themes"Month of Encouragement of Learning", "Tet to Encourage Learning", all levels of the association have had specific and vivid movements such as "Banana Garden to Encourage Learning", "Drum to Encourage Learning", "Warm Tet in the Highlands"...

PV:In addition to the results achieved in the past time, to meet the work of promoting learning, promoting talents, and building a learning society in the new period, what are the upcoming directions, solutions, and key tasks that the association has put forward?

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hien:In the coming time, to successfully implement Conclusion No. 49/KL-TW of the Secretariat on continuing to implement Directive No. 11/CT-TW of the Politburo (10th tenure); Decision No. 489/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on the Plan to implement Conclusion No. 49/KL-TW; Decision No. 1373/QD-TTg, dated July 30, 2021 of the Prime Minister on approving the Project on Building a Learning Society for the period 2021 - 2030; Association work and the movement to promote learning, encourage talents, and build a learning society in the province will focus on the following contents:

That is, the associations at all levels continue to improve the effectiveness of advising the Party Committee and the authorities on activities to encourage learning, encourage talents, and build a learning society on the basis of implementing specific policies of the Party, the State, and the Central Association appropriately in the locality. In addition, continue to focus on building and developing the association organization and members in a synchronous manner, on the basis of continuing to build the association organization system according to Decision 68/2010/QD-TTg and Decision 2039/QD-UBND dated June 9, 2011 of the People's Committee of Nghe An province on regulations on associations with special characteristics. The work of developing associations and members needs to be developed comprehensively, striving for each Party member to be a member of the association to encourage learning, each family to have at least one member of the association to encourage learning, each agency, unit, armed force, school... to be an organization to encourage learning.

At the same time, continue to promote annual emulation movements to encourage learning such as "Tet to Encourage Learning", "Month to Encourage Learning"... on the basis of innovating organizational methods, taking advantage of the leadership and direction of Party committees, authorities, and effective coordination of the Fatherland Front and departments, branches and organizations so that the movement is a widespread political activity that has the power to spread to all classes of people.

During the operation, we also determined that the work of mobilizing, building and developing the Scholarship Fund is extremely important to meet the requirements of scholarship, talent promotion, and building a learning society in the new period, requiring the participation of the entire political system.

Therefore, the association at all levels needs to diversify the forms of fund mobilization based on organizing movements suitable to the local socio-economic situation, honoring sponsors, businesses, agencies, and units that contribute to fund sponsorship, developing forms of fund creation such as: Receiving sponsorship for scholarships during the study period...

At the same time, the use of the fund must be public and transparent based on the consultation and approval of the fund's charter and operating regulations. Supported subjects need to be surveyed, the situation grasped, and supported in many forms such as: Community support (building bookcases, building facilities, equipment, etc. to serve learning), individual support (teachers, students, adults participating in learning) ...

Organize well the survey, inspection and evaluation of the development of learning models such as "Learning Family", "Learning Clan", "Learning Community", "Learning Unit", "Learning Citizen" through studying and thoroughly understanding the policies of the Politburo, the Secretariat, programs, plans and directions of the Prime Minister.

The annual inspection, assessment and recognition of learning models ensures consistency and comprehensiveness from the grassroots to the district, town, city, and the whole province, especially learning models at the grassroots level. Annually and periodically, summarize, commend and replicate typical learning models, promoting the increasingly high quality and effective learning of adults.

PV:Thanks for joining the conversation!