Promoting advantages and promoting training of high-quality human resources

(Baonghean) - On average, Nghe An has more than 22,000 students passing university and college entrance exams every year, with many students achieving high scores, among the top in the country. The quality of education and training is guaranteed to bring Nghe An a great advantage in terms of highly qualified human resources, increasing the province's competitiveness in the integration period.

In the past two years, more than 50% of high schools in the province have been in the top schools with students passing the exam with high scores, an increase of more than 30 schools compared to the period of 2010 - 2011. The quality and education system are increasingly uniform, shortening the gap between regions. In mass education, many high schools in rural and mountainous districts have a high rate of 12th grade students passing the university, college, and university preparatory schools such as Thanh Chuong 1 High School, Quynh Luu 1, Quy Hop 1... with many classes having 100% of students passing the university entrance exam. Nguyen Thi Minh Chi - who achieved the second highest score in the country in block A in 2015 - is a student from Nguyen Xuan On High School, Dien Chau district.

Math lesson of 10th grade A1 students, Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted.

In key education, many students were discovered and nurtured to participate in national and international competitions for excellent students of the province, discovered and nurtured from district-level schools such as Nguyen Tat Nghia (Ly Nhat Quang Secondary School, Do Luong), Cao Ngoc Thai (Cao Xuan Huy Secondary School), Nguyen Ngoc Khanh (Nghi Trung Secondary School), etc. These are also students who have won many high awards in national and international competitions, bringing honor to their home province.

In addition to the distribution and attention to improving the quality of education comprehensively and evenly, the key spearheads of Nghe An education sector continue to promote the long tradition of quality teaching and learning. Typically, two of the "flags" of Nghe An education are Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted and Vinh University High School for the Gifted.

With a long history of being a school that preserves the tradition of learning in Nghe An, Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted is always among the top in the country in terms of teaching and learning quality. In the 2015 national high school exam, the school had over 80 students with high scores and were commended by the Provincial People's Committee. In the past 5 years, the school has maintained its position in the top 5 in the country in terms of national and international excellent student exam results. In the past 10 years, the school has had 30 students participating in regional and international excellent student competitions, winning 4 Gold Medals, 6 Silver Medals, 8 Bronze Medals in subjects such as Mathematics, Physics, etc.

Looking back at the overall key education results of the entire education sector, in the past 5 years, Nghe An has won 474 national excellent student awards, 13 international and Asian Olympic medals. These are impressive results, affirming that Nghe An education has good quality and a solid foundation.

Paying attention to the quality of key education is not only to discover and nurture valuable “seeds”, creating conditions for students to develop their abilities and talents to the maximum, but also giving them the opportunity to interact with the regional and international environment. More than knowledge in books and classrooms, these are extremely important skills for students - the future owners of the country - in the integration period.

Teacher Le Xuan Son, Vice Principal of Vinh University High School for the Gifted, said: “In addition to academic exams, we strongly encourage and create conditions for students to participate in extracurricular activities combined with subjects, such as Math summer camps. There, students not only learn a lot about their favorite subjects but also meet, exchange, and live in an environment with friends who share the same passion, coming from other regions and countries. Thereby, giving them a new perspective on their own passion as well as accumulating experience in communication, teamwork, and learning new things…”.

Another activity that the school regularly organizes is to invite experts and scientists to talk and lecture to students. Most recently, the school organized a summer school program on Mathematics for high school students in the North Central region in 2015 - with the participation of nearly 100 excellent students in Mathematics from specialized schools, students from the teams participating in the Mathematics Olympiad from Thanh Hoa to Thua Thien Hue. Here, the students met many leading Vietnamese Mathematics professors such as Professor Ha Huy Khoi, former Director of the Vietnam Institute of Mathematics; Dr. Le Ba Khanh Trinh, the first candidate to achieve the maximum score and also the only candidate from Vietnam to date to win the special prize for the best solution at the International Mathematics Olympiad...

Comrade Vo Van Mai, Head of Secondary Education Department, Department of Education and Training said: “Uniform and comprehensive quality of teaching and learning has always been an important goal of the province's education sector, especially at the high school level. Because this is an important stepping stone, laying the foundation for training a direct workforce to serve the development of the province in particular and the country in general. Determining the role of high school education, in recent years, Nghe An's education sector has focused on investing and innovating in management and teaching methods in high schools in the area. Currently, high school is the level with the highest rate of solid and spacious schools with a rate of over 90%, 100% of schools have a team of qualified and above-standard teachers".

Currently, in Nghe An province, there are 17 universities, colleges and 70 vocational training schools. With a solid educational foundation from high school level, this is a reliable guarantee for the quality of Nghe An's labor force - one of the criteria that investors are most interested in when coming to the locality. When Nghe An is oriented to develop into an industrial - economic - cultural and social center of the region in the long term, education and training is the first step to get closer to that goal.

Article and photos:My Ha