In the 2025-2026 school year, the education sector is facing an unprecedented opportunity when Resolution 71 on breakthroughs in education and training development is issued with great expectations but also many great incentive policies. This is the information shared by Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son with the press before the new school year.
Great opportunity to break out
- Dear Minister, in recent times, the Party and State have had a series of preferential policies for education , many of which will be implemented in the 2025-2026 school year, especially Resolution 71-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in education and training development of the Politburo . Could the Minister share about the opportunities and challenges of the industry in the coming school year?
Minister Nguyen Kim Son: This school year, the education sector is facing unprecedented opportunities. Never before have the Party and State paid as much attention and expectation to education and training as they do today. The most important of these is the Politburo's recent issuance of Resolution 71-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in education and training development. This is an important political foundation to further promote the fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training that was established in Resolution 29-NQ/TW (2013) and continued to be emphasized in Conclusion 91-KL/TW (2024).
The Resolution demonstrates the Party's new vision and strategy for the future education system, when the world context is undergoing profound and comprehensive changes, especially digital technology and artificial intelligence are reshaping education on a global scale. In addition, the Resolution has identified major goals along with tasks and solutions of a strong breakthrough nature to innovate and improve Vietnamese education.
This school year, the education sector is facing unprecedented opportunities. Never before has education and training received as much attention and expectation from the Party and State as it does today.
For the entire education sector, this is a great opportunity to make a breakthrough, to affirm the decisive position of education in the country's development. Aware of this, the Ministry of Education and Training is urgently developing and submitting to the Government a draft of the Government's Action Program to implement Resolution 71 and will concretize it with the Ministry of Education and Training's Action Plan to implement it right from the beginning of this school year.
Along with that, a national target program on education and training development is being built. Four important laws on education (Law on Teachers, Law on Education, Law on Higher Education and Law on Vocational Education) have been and are expected to be issued this year, creating a solid foundation for operating a modern, synchronous and effective education system. Digital transformation, application of artificial intelligence and STEM education are also opening up opportunities for education to enter a stage of quality improvement and comprehensive innovation.
Besides opportunities, the education sector also faces many challenges. The operation of a two-tier local government model, especially at the commune level, places high demands on managing changes in organization, personnel and apparatus. The issues of educational equity; extra teaching and learning; teacher recruitment and rotation; and universalization are also challenges that the sector must resolutely address. In addition, absorbing huge investment resources in the coming time, ensuring efficiency and compliance with regulations also requires great efforts and hard work.
Adapting to two-tier government
- The 2025-2026 school year will be the first year the education sector operates under a two-tier local government model. What solutions has the Ministry of Education and Training had to implement management work in the new model?
Minister Nguyen Kim Son : To ensure that educational activities are not disrupted in the context of two-level local government, the Ministry of Education and Training has implemented many synchronous solutions.
The Ministry has developed and issued 2 decrees and 6 circulars regulating decentralization, delegation of authority, and assignment of state management authority in the field of education. The Ministry has also organized seminars, established hotlines, received information, and resolved difficulties and problems of localities.
Regarding capacity building, the Ministry has developed documents, organized training courses, and published handbooks to support commune-level education managers and education and training departments in accessing complete, systematic, concise, and easy-to-understand information. In addition, the Ministry has also organized 6 inspection teams in 15 provinces on this issue.
In the coming time, the Ministry of Education and Training will continue to review legal documents; strengthen professional guidance; complete the industry data system, ensure connectivity and synchronization... and continue to accompany and support localities in implementing decentralized and delegated tasks.
To effectively implement educational tasks in the coming school year, People's Committees at all levels need to effectively implement solutions to inspect and remove difficulties at the commune level; have solutions to mobilize and second specialized staff from the Department of Education and Training or educational institutions to support the commune level, especially in places where commune-level staff do not have expertise. In addition, it is necessary to strongly apply information technology and digital transformation to ensure smooth and timely communication between levels.
The Department of Education and Training needs to coordinate with relevant departments, agencies and sectors to develop documents, organize training and in-depth training, and improve the professional capacity of commune-level officials and civil servants in charge of education. In addition, it is necessary to guide the establishment of inter-school and inter-commune professional clusters to organize professional activities and professional training for teachers, replacing the previous direct role of the Department of Education and Training.
Continue to "tighten" extra teaching and learning
- One of the issues that many students and parents are concerned about is the management of extra teaching and learning in the coming school year, especially when implementing 2-session teaching/day in both primary and secondary schools. Can the Minister share about this issue?
Minister Nguyen Kim Son : Regarding the management of extra teaching and learning, the Ministry of Education and Training continues to adhere to the viewpoint that "extra learning can bring about the consolidation of knowledge, but brings little value to human development." The profound consequences of the widespread situation of extra teaching and learning require continued drastic rectification.
The Ministry of Education and Training continues to maintain the view that “extra classes can bring about the consolidation of knowledge, but bring little value to human development.”
Therefore, in the 2025-2026 school year, the Ministry will continue to direct and urge localities to issue regulations on managing extra teaching and learning to enhance the responsibility of the government, while requiring educational institutions to effectively implement the general education program.
Implementing Directive No. 17/CT-TTg dated June 6, 2025 of the Prime Minister on teaching 2 sessions/day, the Ministry has directed schools to develop an education plan that clearly shows the plan to mobilize and use resources for implementation in qualified places. The plan must specify the content, duration, and target students, and at the same time assign teachers reasonably and in accordance with regulations; focus on differentiating subjects, nurturing excellent students, reviewing for final year students and supporting students who have not met the requirements according to Circular 29.
At the same time, the Ministry emphasized the need to innovate management work, strengthen inspection and supervision of the implementation of the General Education Program as well as management of extra teaching and learning, ensuring strict implementation of policies and laws.
The organization of the second session, including additional teaching for 3 subjects as prescribed, is carried out in accordance with Directive 17. Funding for the second session is mainly guaranteed from the state budget under the direction of the Prime Minister. Socialized sources are implemented according to current regulations. In the coming time, the Ministry of Education and Training will coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and localities to develop specific mechanisms and policies on mobilizing funds for the implementation of teaching 2 sessions/day.
- This year's opening ceremony was held in a special way, connecting online nationwide for the first time at all levels of education, from kindergarten to university. Could the Minister share his message for the new school year?
Minister Nguyen Kim Son: The opening ceremony of the 2025-2026 school year takes place in a special context: The whole country celebrates the 80th anniversary of National Day; carries out the historical "rearrangement of the country"; organizes Party Congresses at all levels...
For the Education sector, the beginning of the new school year is also an occasion to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Education sector. This is not only an opportunity for us to look back on the 80-year journey of education to develop the country, but also an opportunity to be more aware of the mission and responsibility of education in creating people, building and developing the country, and striving to integrate into the new era.
The meaning of the opening ceremony became even more profound when 52,000 educational institutions across the country connected online and broadcast live, with the presence of the highest leaders of the Party and State, to spread the belief, spirit, and determination to bring Vietnamese education to new heights.
The 2025-2026 school year is a very important school year with many important tasks to be done and many opportunities for innovation. The keyword of this school year is "implementation". That is to focus on implementing well the Party's policies and guidelines, the State's laws on education as well as the 10 key tasks and solutions of the 2025-2026 school year of the education sector. That is the way for the whole sector to inherit and promote the achievements of the past 80 years, overcome existing shortcomings and limitations, and open up new paths for Vietnamese education in the coming time.
Education is a career of a hundred years, requiring vision, perseverance, a spirit of fairness and the highest responsibility. I call on the entire industry, from managers to teachers, staff, and all students to prepare the best mindset, spirit and conditions, to unite and join forces, so that the new school year becomes a busy but joyful and successful year.
- Thank you very much, Minister!./.
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