Provincial Political School opens the 2018-2019 school year

Attending the opening ceremony were comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; Cao Thi Hien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council. Representatives of the Party Committees of the Provincial Party Committee; departments, branches and sectors at the provincial level also attended.

On behalf of the Provincial Political School, there were comrade Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Principal of the Provincial Political School; more than 200 students of the 2018-2019 course attended the opening ceremony.

Delegates attending the ceremony. Photo: Thanh Le

Every year, the School cooperates with the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics to open 1-2 advanced political theory classes at the school; coordinates with Party committees, affiliated Party committees, and localities to open 42-45 intermediate political theory classes and refresher courses at the school and intermediate political refresher classes in districts, cities, and towns.

In the 2017-2018 school year, the Political School directly and jointly trained, opened and taught, and managed 64 classes with 5,684 students with many types of training and education (advanced, intermediate political theory, training for specialists, senior specialists, training for group 4, training in grassroots mass mobilization skills, training for commune-level secretaries, etc.). Actively innovating teaching methods, increasingly improving the quality of teaching and learning.

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Son spoke at the ceremony. Photo: Thanh Le

The highlight was the successful hosting of the 6th National Competition for Excellent Lecturers of Provincial Political Schools, Ministries, Branches and Central Organizations (2017). The Standing Staff of the Provincial Party Committee worked with the Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics to evaluate the results of 10 years of implementing Decision No. 184-QD/TW dated September 3, 2008 of the Central Party Secretariat and some contents on training and fostering of cadres.

In addition, the school has paid attention to promoting scientific research and summarizing practices and achieved encouraging results, in which the highlight is chairing and coordinating to advise the province to successfully organize the International Conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of patriot Phan Boi Chau and the Provincial Conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son presented flowers to congratulate the Provincial Political School. Photo: Thanh Le

Organize professional activities, thematic reports, and implement school-level scientific topics to serve teaching and research and contribute to the economic and social development of localities.

Pay attention to building an organizational structure and a team of highly qualified, capable, politically steadfast, and professionally conscious civil servants, with 100% of the lecturers being standardized. The school's infrastructure system has been invested in, upgraded, renovated, and newly built, gradually meeting the requirements of teaching, research, study, and living for staff, lecturers, and students.

Speaking at the ceremony, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Son commended, acknowledged and congratulated the outstanding results in the 2017-2018 school year that all staff, lecturers and students of the School have united and strived to overcome difficulties to achieve.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa read the opening speech of the 2018-2019 school year. Photo: Thanh Le

Emphasizing that the 2018-2019 school year began in the context that the entire provincial political system has been focusing on evaluating the results of 2.5 years of implementing the Resolution of the 18th Provincial Party Congress, 5 years of implementingResolution 26-NQ/TW dated July 30, 2013 of the Politburo on directions and tasks for developing Nghe An province until 2020, in which there are still many targets that must continue to be achieved. Along with that, we have implemented Resolution 6 and Resolution 7 of the 12th Central Committee.

Therefore, in order to contribute to the successful implementation of the set goals, the Provincial Political School is responsible for continuing to innovate and improve the quality of training and fostering political theory for leaders and managers, actively contributing to the completion of the targets on training and fostering cadres identified in the Resolution and socio-economic development plan for the period 2016 - 2020, creating momentum to strive for Nghe An to develop more and more strongly.

The Provincial Political School needs to continue to do a good job of advising the Provincial Party Standing Committee and the Provincial People's Committee on training and fostering cadres, civil servants and public employees; effectively organize and implement the contents of Project No. 12-DA/TU dated July 30, 2015 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on "Building and developing Nghe An Provincial Political School for the period 2015-2020, vision 2030", Plan No. 81-KH/TU, dated July 20, 2017 "on studying to improve compulsory political theory level" and Directive No. 14-CT/TU, dated August 21, 2017 "on strengthening leadership and management of training and fostering of cadres, civil servants and public employees in Nghe An province" in conjunction with focusing on effectively implementing training and fostering of cadres in the spirit of the Resolution of the 18th Provincial Party Congress and documents of the Central Committee.

Representative of lecturers from the Provincial Political School speaking. Photo by Thanh Le

At the same time, the School needs to continue to innovate, reorganize the apparatus, streamline the staff and effectively implement solutions to build and develop a team of qualified lecturers, leaders and managers with high political qualities, ethics, lifestyle and qualifications, good skills, methods, and strong political will to meet the requirements of performing the school's political tasks in the new period.

At the same time, strongly innovate training and fostering activities towards improving quality, linking theory with practice; increase investment in facilities and equipment towards modernization, ensuring necessary conditions for creative activities of lecturers and students, serving well for teaching, learning and research.

The Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee requested that trainees must thoroughly grasp the sense of discipline, spirit, and attitude towards learning, seriously determine the right motivation for learning, actively research to expand and improve understanding and awareness of political theory, management and leadership methods and skills to reap useful and practical results, on that basis to work better and better complete assigned tasks.