Re-planning the school network to implement the new general education program in Tuong Duong

On March 18, continuing the working program, comrade Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee inspected and worked at the district.Xiangyangon the implementation of educational development network planning, arrangement of facilities and teaching equipment at schools, school locations, facilities and implementation of policies in the area.

Also attending were comrades: Thai Van Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Director of the Department of Education and Training; Phan Duc Son - Chairman of the People's Committee of Tuong Duong district, representatives of the Department of Finance, Department of Planning and Investment and related departments and branches.

Teaching is difficult due to many separate schools.

Before working with the District People's Committee, Comrade Bui Dinh Long visited some remote schools in Yen Tinh and Yen Thang communes. Due to the characteristics of these two communes being in remote, isolated areas, in recent years, schools in the area have maintained these locations.single school. Of which, Yen Tinh Primary School has 4 campuses, Yen Thang Primary School has 6 campuses.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long visited a class at a satellite school of Yen Tinh Primary School. Photo: MH

The implementation of satellite schools has contributed significantly to creating conditions for local children to study near their homes. However, this model also has many shortcomings such as students may have to study in combined classes, with small numbers of students but many teachers.

In particular, due to the arrangement of too many schools and the distance between them, students in schools far from the center cannot study subjects such as Information Technology, Foreign Languages ​​and participate in collective and extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, this is one of the requirements of the program.general education

The working group inspected the implementation of boarding at Yen Thang Primary School. Photo: MH

Directly inspecting the schools and learning about the arrangement and organization of the schools, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee pointed out the shortcomings in the process.

In addition, Yen Thang Primary School is currently organizing boarding for 97 primary school students from grades 3 to 5. However, this model is facing many difficulties because living conditions are not guaranteed. The school implements a boarding model but it is still spontaneous, teachers do not enjoy the same benefits as other boarding schools.

The dormitory area of ​​Yen Tinh Secondary School for Ethnic Minorities has been nearly completed and put into use, spacious and modern. Photo: MH

Also in the working program, comrade Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee inspected teaching and learning at Yen Tinh Secondary School for Ethnic Minorities and Tuong Duong Secondary School for Ethnic Minorities.

These are two boarding school models that have been in operation for quite a long time and have proven effective. Thereby, they have contributed practically to improving the quality of teaching and learning, maintaining student numbers and training resources for children in the area.

Although teaching equipment is available, because it has been equipped for nearly 10 years, most of them find it difficult to meet the requirements of teaching according to the new program. Photo: MH

Putting the primary boarding school model into development planning

In recent years, the school network in Tuong Duong district has been planned and rearranged scientifically and reasonably in a streamlined manner, suitable for reality and meeting the learning needs of the people.

Thanks to that, 7 schools and centers, 38 separate schools at all levels have been reduced. Corresponding to a 10.9% reduction in the number of schools and 19.9% ​​reduction in the number of school locations. At the same time, 106 classes have been merged to increase the number of students per class compared to 2015.

Comrade Bui Dinh Long chaired the meeting. Photo: MH

In Tuong Duong, there are still 152 separate schools, including 71 primary schools. The whole district has 7 primary schools (10 schools) organizing boarding for 273 students. However, all schools have not been recognized as boarding schools.

At the working session with the People's Committee of Tuong Duong district and related departments, agencies and offices, representatives of the units also frankly pointed out the shortcomings and inadequacies in education work.

Specifically, although the quality of education has changed, there has been no breakthrough, it is uneven between schools and school locations; the quality is still lower than the average level of the province. Every year, many middle and high school students still drop out of school. Although the number of education staff is not excessive compared to the province's assignment, there is a surplus or shortage locally (by subject and level of education).

The delegation visited the Tuong Duong District Ethnic Minority Boarding Secondary School. Photo: MH

In particular, the rate of schools organizing foreign language and IT teaching at primary level is still low compared to the general level of the whole province (12/19 schools teach foreign languages, reaching 63.2%; 4/19 schools teach IT, reaching 21.1%). The number of teachers teaching foreign languages ​​and IT is still lacking compared to the requirements.

In addition, although school facilities have been invested in and built, due to the widespread and fragmented network of schools, many items have now degraded, and many construction items such as functional rooms, toilets, kitchens, boarding houses, etc. are still lacking; many teaching equipment are old, outdated, and damaged, not meeting the requirements of innovation.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee talks with students studying at Tuong Duong District Ethnic Minority Secondary School. Photo: MH

Concluding the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long affirmed: To implement the new general education program, merging separate schools is very necessary. To prepare the teaching program, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that Tuong Duong district needs to ensure sufficient conditions, build a friendly, green, clean, beautiful educational environment, and move towards building open libraries in schools.

The district needs to review the detailed planning of the school network based on specific levels of education and determine which schools can build boarding schools to arrange them appropriately for each locality, and not maintain boarding schools at separate locations. When building boarding schools, there must be enough accommodation and living space for students. The review of boarding school construction locations must be completed before September 2021. The district also needs to soon complete the project to build boarding schools throughout the district.

The delegation presented money to support the construction of a school library in Tuong Duong district. Photo: MH

The construction of the network in the district will be the basis for the Department of Education and Training to synthesize and develop a network planning project in the province in the coming period, in accordance with the socio-economic development planning of the province.

On this occasion, the delegation donated 100 million VND to Tuong Duong district to build libraries for schools in the area./.