Prime Minister directs breakthrough tasks of the education sector in the new school year

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the Party and State always consider education and training as a top national policy with a particularly important role, creating the foundation for forming and developing the personality and capacity of each person.

Speaking at the conference to summarize the 2024-2025 school year and deploy tasks for the 2025-2026 school year at the Government Office on August 22, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed: “Education and training form the “Virtue - Intelligence - Body - Beauty” of people; is the most important factor ensuring success in the breakthrough in human resource development, especially high-quality human resources serving the cause of industrialization, modernization and sustainable development”.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long and Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son chaired the Conference. (Source: Ministry of Education and Training)

He acknowledged, appreciated, commended and congratulated the important results that the education sector had achieved in the past school year and highlighted the "36 words, 9 groups of tasks that need attention in education" including: Perfecting institutions; streamlined apparatus; improving quality; professional exams; upgrading teachers; expanding integration; spacious facilities; developing science; early blooming talents.

Besides the achieved results, the Prime Minister said that education still has many limitations, shortcomings, difficulties and challenges such as: "Inadequate programs, fragmented scale, unbalanced professions, low ethics, lack of skills, insufficient teachers, unconnected network, passive funding".

From the results achieved and practical experience in directing and operating in the past time, the Prime Minister requested the whole industry to continue to focus on thoroughly grasping and effectively implementing the main orientation: "Taking students as the center and subject - Teachers as the driving force - School as the support - Family as the fulcrum - Society as the foundation".

Regarding regular tasks , the Prime Minister requested the Education sector:

- Focus on carefully preparing the necessary conditions for the new school year, including the nationwide online opening ceremony down to the commune level, especially in the context of the first school year implementing the merger of administrative units and local government organizations at 2 levels.

- Continue to improve institutions, enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of education. Focus on effectively implementing the Law on Teachers; urgently complete and submit to the National Assembly amendments to the Laws on education, higher education, and vocational education; prepare to develop the Law on lifelong learning.

- Prioritize investment resources in facilities and teaching equipment for preschool and general education institutions to meet the needs of the 2018 Preschool Education Program and General Education Program; focus on implementing the National Target Program on modernization and improving the quality of education and training.

- Building and developing a team of teachers with adequate qualities and capacities, equal to the tasks; focusing on overcoming the surplus and shortage of teachers, ensuring the principle of "where there are students, there must be teachers in the classroom"

- Pay attention to developing education for children and students in areas with difficult socio-economic conditions, ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, and islands.

Regarding the breakthrough task , the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Education and Training to prepare to thoroughly grasp and synchronously, resolutely and effectively implement the Resolution of the Politburo on breakthrough in education and training development as soon as the Resolution is issued.

- Continue to review and plan the network of preschool, general education, continuing education, education for the disabled, higher education and pedagogical colleges, and vocational education; ensure suitable land funds for building schools and classrooms, especially adding schools and classrooms to implement universal preschool education for children from 3 to 5 years old; build primary and secondary boarding schools in 248 land border communes, initially piloting investment in building new or renovating 100 schools in 2025.

- Improve the quality of preschool and general education; implement universal preschool education for children from 3 to 5 years old; ensure safety for children; adjust and perfect the general education program to suit reality; improve the quality of digital capacity development and artificial intelligence (AI); gradually make English the second language in schools.

- Improve the quality of human resource training, especially high-quality human resources associated with scientific research and innovation.

- Promote digital transformation, enhance the application of information technology; encourage the development and exploitation of big data, application and development of appropriate artificial intelligence.

- Promote international cooperation and integration. Expand, diversify and deepen international cooperation mechanisms; promote negotiations and signing of agreements and treaties on educational and training cooperation.

Regarding specific tasks , the Prime Minister requested ministries, departments, branches and localities to carry out tasks in the spirit of assigning "6 clear tasks: clear people, clear work, clear time, clear responsibility, clear products, clear authority".

In particular, the Ministry of Education and Training presides over and coordinates with ministries and local branches to continue implementing Conclusion 91 of the Politburo; especially focusing on developing a draft Resolution of the National Assembly on specific mechanisms and policies and the Government's Action Plan to implement the Resolution of the Politburo on breakthroughs in education and training development.

At the Conference, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son expressed his gratitude to the Prime Minister, Party and State leaders for always paying attention and closely directing the field of education and training.

On the threshold of the new school year 2025-2026, the education sector will focus on making breakthroughs, changing status, and at the same time doing well specific groups of tasks along with many other key tasks.

On September 5, the whole country will hold the opening ceremony in an exciting atmosphere, associated with the 80th anniversary of the tradition of the Education sector.

With a clear awareness of the glorious mission, understanding the responsibilities and challenges ahead, including the challenge of surpassing oneself, the Minister called on the entire industry to uphold the spirit of self-education, self-renewal, and determination to successfully complete the tasks assigned by the Party, State and People.

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