Increase resources for the education sector to invest in facilities and eliminate satellite schools.

On the morning of August 16, the Provincial People's Committee held a conference to summarize the 2021-2022 school year and deploy tasks for the 2022-2023 school year.

The conference was chaired by comrades: Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Thai Van Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Department of Education and Training. The conference was organized online connecting 21 districts and cities with the participation of leaders, officials and teachers of high schools across the province. Also attending were comrade Vo Van Dung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department and representatives of a number of relevant departments, branches and sectors. Photo: My Ha

Quality of education is affirmed

In the 2021-2022 school year, Nghe An's education sector continues to face many difficulties due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic. However, with many solutions and flexibility in direction, teaching and learning are still effectively implemented at all levels of education in the province.

Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee gave a speech at the conference. Photo: My Ha

This is also the year that the Education and Training sector successfully piloted a model to ensure educational quality, contributing to sustainable development; maintaining its position in the top 5 provinces nationwide in terms of excellent students. Of which, there is 1 Silver Medal, 1 Bronze Medal and 1 Gold Medal at regional and international Olympic competitions. In addition, there are 97/148 national excellent students with 6 First prizes, 60 Second prizes and Third prizes.

The quality assurance model also contributed to creating positive changes in the 2022 high school graduation exam. Nghe An's average exam scores increased by 14 places compared to 2021. In addition, there was 1 student who won first prize in the contest "Youth studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style"; there was 1 project that won third prize at the national level "Students with startup ideas".

Nghe An also has breakthroughs in building and effectively implementing models to improve the quality of education: Model of coordination between family, school and community in caring for and educating preschool children; Model of high-quality key schools; advanced preschools and general schools following the trend of international integration; Model of schools helping schools, rooms helping rooms.

To effectively implement the 2018 general education program, last school year, Nghe An continued to implement many solutions such as arranging and consolidating schools to ensure the implementation of IT and Foreign Language teaching for primary school students; Directing the completion of the compilation of local educational materials and implementing the process of selecting textbooks for grades 3, 7 and 10, according to the 2018 General Education Program; teaching the enhanced program of Foreign Languages, IT, STEM Education. Organizing direct and online training for 100% of teachers teaching the new program; organizing capacity surveys for 2,500 English teachers in general education institutions. Prioritizing resource concentration, directing the rapid implementation of digital transformation in education, contributing to improving the quality of education, administrative reform and epidemic prevention and control.

Nghe An also completed the set targets for national standard schools; achieved universal preschool and secondary education standards and was the 25th province to achieve universal primary education level 3. Completed the targets and tasks for the 2021-2022 school year, organized exams to ensure safety, seriousness, honesty and compliance with regulations.

Need to focus resources on investing in education

At the conference, many presentations from localities also mentioned issues such as preparing facilities for the new general education program, building national standard schools, and replacing new textbooks. In addition, many opinions also suggested that the industry should pay attention to the problem of teacher shortage, pay attention to building facilities in difficult areas, and increase English teaching in schools.

Delegates speaking at the conference. Photo: My Ha

Speaking at the conference, comrade Bui Dinh Long congratulated the achievements of the education sector in the past school year.

In addition, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also frankly mentioned 3 existing problems of the current education sector, which are the problem of inappropriate school network planning, too many separate schools. Meanwhile, in the city, there is an overload of students and a lack of schools. This leads to difficulties in implementing new education programs, improving education quality and difficulty in arranging teachers. At the university and vocational levels, there are still many schools that have difficulty recruiting students and have not received investment.

Delegates attending the conference. Photo: My Ha

Besides, despite efforts and attempts, the lack of facilities, teaching equipment and especially the lack of teachers still occurs. In addition, there are many gaps between education in the mountainous and lowland areas, there are differences between general education and continuing education, between public and non-public education.

Comrade Bui Dinh Long presented the Excellent Emulation Flag of the Ministry of Education and Training and the flag of the Provincial People's Committee to the Department of Education and Training. Photo: My Ha

From the above shortcomings and difficulties, comrade Bui Dinh Long suggested that the Party committees and authorities need to review the school planning. In particular, for education in mountainous areas, solutions must be proposed to quickly reduce the number of schools. At present, localities need to prioritize investment resources for education and boarding schools. Vinh city must actively advise to expand educational and training facilities. To implement this content, the Education sector also needs to advise to build and propose appropriate policies and regimes.

The Department of Education and Training presents flowers to retired management staff and staff who have transferred jobs. Photo: My Ha

In the coming time, the education sector also needs to pay attention to the actual teaching in schools, pay attention to building a green, clean, beautiful, safe and healthy educational environment. Gradually move towards autonomy in schools, including schools in Vinh city...

On this occasion, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded the Excellent Emulation Flag of the Ministry of Education and Training and the Provincial People's Committee to the Nghe An Department of Education and Training for its outstanding achievements in 2021./.