Strengthening the Party's leadership role and the responsibility of leaders in promoting learning and talent

Realizing the goal of improving the quality of human resources

PV:Dear Sir, The Provincial Party Standing Committee has issued Directive No. 26 on promoting the work of encouraging learning, encouraging talents, and building a learning society in the period of 2023 - 2030. In your opinion, how important is the directive in the new period?

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hien:During the renovation period, imbued with President Ho Chi Minh's ideology on education, the Party and the State have always paid attention to improving people's knowledge, training human resources and nurturing talents. In addition to the formal education system in schools, the Party and the State have also paid attention to mobilizing social forces to participate in educational activities with the policy of establishing the Association for Promotion of Education in 1998 and have issued many documents to lead and direct the activities of the Association for Promotion of Education.

Such as Directive No. 50, dated August 24, 1999 of the Politburo on Strengthening the Party's leadership over the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education; Directive No. 11, dated April 13, 2007 of the Politburo on strengthening the Party's leadership over the work of promoting education, promoting talents, and building a learning society; Conclusion No. 49 of the Secretariat on continuing to implement Directive No. 11 of the Politburo.

For Nghe An, implementing the directives and conclusions of the Politburo and the Secretariat, the work of promoting learning has achieved many results and gradually developed. To improve the effectiveness of the work of promoting learning in the province, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee issued Directive No. 26, dated December 20, 2023 on promoting the work of promoting learning, promoting talents, and building a learning society in the period of 2023 - 2030.

The directive is issued to promote the work of encouraging learning and talent, building a learning society in the spirit of Conclusion No. 49 of the Secretariat, Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress of Nghe An, term 2020 - 2025 and effectively build learning models according to the Project "Building a learning society for the period 2021 - 2030" of the Government. Thereby, it aims to realize the goal of improving the quality of human resources, meeting development requirements and contributing to improving the province's competitiveness in the new context.

Responsibility of the entire political system

PV:Can you tell us about the important, core issues according to Directive No. 26 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee?

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hien:Directive 26 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee determined: Maintaining and improving the quality and effectiveness of the work of promoting learning, promoting talents, and building a learning society is an important and regular task of the entire political system, which requires promoting the role of leaders in carrying out this task.

Therefore, Party committees, Party organizations, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations continue to promote dissemination, raise awareness and effectively implement Conclusion 49 of the Secretariat and Directive No. 14 of the Prime Minister on promoting the work of promoting learning, promoting talents, and building a learning society; at the same time, integrate and include the content of promoting learning, promoting talents, and building a learning society into the training programs of the Provincial Political School, district-level political centers and other educational and training institutions.

The Provincial Party Standing Committee also pointed out the task of the Provincial People's Committee to direct provincial departments, branches, and sectors and district People's Committees to concretize documents of the Central and the province on the work of promoting learning, promoting talents, and building a learning society, in conjunction with the implementation of political tasks of sectors, localities, agencies, and units.

The Provincial People's Committee needs to review and improve the quality of activities of community learning centers; review and propose additional policies related to the work of promoting learning, promoting talents, and building a learning society; gradually organize and build models of "Learning Citizens", "Learning Communities at commune and district levels", towards achieving "Learning Province"; link the criteria for recognizing learning models with the recognition of cultural models and emulation titles.

Along with that, effectively direct the implementation of the Project "Building a learning society for the period 2021 - 2030" and the Plan "Promoting lifelong learning movement in families, clans, communities, and units for the period 2021 - 2030" in the province.

For the Provincial Military Command Party Committee, the Provincial Police Party Committee, the Provincial Border Guard Command Party Committee coordinate with the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education and local authorities to promote the movement to promote education and talents among the armed forces and people in the stationed areas.

The Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies Bloc and the Party Committee of the Provincial Enterprises Bloc established the bloc's learning promotion organization and directed the consolidation, improvement, and establishment of new learning promotion organizations in agencies and units; encouraged cadres, party members, civil servants, public employees, and workers to voluntarily and regularly study and improve their qualifications to serve their work, contributing to promoting the development of agencies and enterprises.

Regarding the responsibilities of the Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations from the provincial to grassroots levels have also clearly defined tasks and responsibilities to closely coordinate with the Association for Promotion of Education at all levels to organize propaganda, mobilize, and promote lifelong learning for union members, association members and people; identifying this as an important content in the movement to build new rural areas and civilized urban areas.

Take care of education promotion work for long-term care

PV:According to you, how should all levels and sectors participate so that Directive No. 26 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee can be effective in practice?

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hien:In order for Directive No. 26 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee to be effectively implemented in practice, it requires each Party committee, Party organization, agency, unit, and enterprise to grasp the content and requirements of the Directive; when fully grasped and well aware, there will be parallel actions.

Each level, each sector, agency and unit needs to develop a specific plan to implement the directive; organize for cadres, party members and people to register to build "Learning Citizens"; each agency, unit and enterprise registers to build "Learning Units" at the commune and district levels and move towards "Learning Provinces".

The Provincial Association for Promotion of Education has been actively coordinating with Party Committees at all levels to disseminate and bring the contents of the directive to cadres, Party members and people. Currently, the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education has directed and guided Associations for Promotion of Education at all levels to proactively coordinate and advise Party Committees, authorities, agencies and units to implement the policy of promoting education and talents, especially the lifelong learning movement and building a learning society.

Nghe An is a province with a scholarship fund developed from the province to the commune and in each clan and family; annually mobilizing about 130 - 150 billion VND.

Recently, in the province, there were nearly 300 students who got high scores in universities, but without the support of organizations and communities, they would have had to drop out of school. At the same time, through screening, there were also nearly 6,000 poor but good high school students, who would have had difficulty completing high school without the support of organizations and communities.

With the view that promoting education is a long-term concern, the Association for Promoting Education at all levels in the province is striving to mobilize maximum resources to support individuals in difficult circumstances to strive to study well, contributing to building a learning society.

The Association for Promotion of Education at all levels in the province also hopes that the Party Committee, government, political system and social community will continue to pay attention to mobilizing social resources to serve the work of promoting education, promoting talents, and building a learning society.

PV:Thank you for this conversation!