The National Assembly questions Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son.

Panorama of the question-and-answer session on the morning of November 11 at Dien Hong Hall, National Assembly House. Photo: Quang Khanh

Accordingly, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son answered questions about ensuring the quality of teaching and learning, continuing to fundamentally innovate education and training in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Online teaching and learning ensures efficiency and fairness in accessing educational and learning conditions among students from different regions.

Reducing the curriculum load for students; narrowing the educational gap between urban and rural areas, especially in remote areas, ethnic minority and mountainous areas. School safety and school health work so that students can return to school; plans to organize the national high school exam in the context of the epidemic.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue chaired the question-and-answer session. Photo: Quang Khanh

Speaking before the question and answer session, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that in the past 2 years, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, education and training has been a very heavily affected sector; nearly 20 million students have not been able to go to school for a very long time, over 70,000 students have not been able to graduate on time. Organizing online learning and learning via television in conditions of many difficulties and shortages in infrastructure has caused many negative consequences and impacts.

Thoroughly implementing the Government's directive of "stop going to class, don't stop learning", the entire industry has proactively changed its state, trying to limit the negative impacts of the epidemic on education, and persistently pursuing the goal of quality in education.

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son speaks before the question and answer session. Photo: Quang Khanh

The Covid-19 epidemic is gradually being controlled, however, according to Minister Nguyen Kim Son, the consequences will be long-term and the solution will not be overnight. Currently, the industry has implemented an assessment of the impact of the epidemic, initially there are numbers and indicators of negative impacts, some impacts have been seen but there are still long-term impacts that have not been measured, especially gaps in knowledge, psychological and spiritual impacts, etc. of students.

At the question and answer session, delegates focused on questioning the above contents, especially those related to online teaching and learning, organizing students to return to school; viewpoints and approaches to extra teaching and learning; overcoming the shortage of teachers in mountainous provinces; staffing and streamlining staffing in the education sector; arranging medical and accounting staff in schools;...

According to the program, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and ministers of several ministries will participate in answering questions and explaining related issues.

The National Assembly delegation of Nghe An province led by comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council attended the question-and-answer session at Dien Hong Hall, National Assembly House on the morning of November 11. Photo: Quang Khanh

Previously, at the beginning of the working program on the morning of November 11, Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and related Government members continued to answer questions on a group of issues in the field of labor, war invalids and social affairs, including the following contents: The implementation of support packages for those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure progress, target the right subjects and effectiveness; The work of protecting children's rights, especially children orphaned by the pandemic; The current situation and reasons why workers left Ho Chi Minh City and key economic provinces in the South in many waves. Solutions to remove difficulties in the labor market according to the development of the pandemic; Policies to attract the workforce to return to work and solutions to support job creation for the unemployed workforce; The chairing and coordination with related ministries and branches to monitor and inspect the implementation of relief and volunteering to ensure compliance with policies and regulations./.