Persistently pursuing the goal of fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training

On the morning of August 19, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the conference to summarize the 2023-2024 school year and deploy tasks for the 2024-2025 school year, organized by the Ministry of Education and Training online between the main bridge in Hanoi and 63 provinces and centrally-run cities.

Comrade Tran Duc Thang, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired the meeting at the Hai Duong provincial bridge. Also attending were Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh Hung and representatives of leaders of departments, branches, localities, and educational institutions.

Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh acknowledged and highly appreciated the participation of the entire political system, the consensus and support of the people nationwide, especially the efforts of the entire education sector in implementing Resolution 29-NQ/TW on fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training, achieving many important and quite comprehensive results, creating breakthroughs.

According to the Prime Minister, the 2024-2025 school year ends the term of implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Congress, and at the same time begins to implement Conclusion 91 of the Politburo on continuing to innovate education and training. Therefore, the Prime Minister requested the education and training sector, ministries, branches and localities to carry out 9 key tasks.

The Prime Minister requested to carefully prepare conditions for the new school year and organize the Opening Ceremony on September 5 well, creating a joyful and exciting atmosphere for the new school year; focus on implementing Conclusion 91-KL/TW of the Politburo, ensuring effectiveness and practicality; continue to review, amend and promptly supplement institutions, mechanisms and policies on education and training innovation, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of education; summarize and comprehensively evaluate the implementation of innovation in general education programs and textbooks.

2025 is the first year to organize the high school graduation exam according to the new general education program. The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Education and Training to preside over and, together with ministries, agencies and localities, prepare carefully to organize the exam to ensure quality, safety, seriousness, efficiency, practicality, compactness, reduce pressure, and create the most favorable conditions for students.

The Prime Minister also requested to promote autonomy in conjunction with improving the quality of university training in a practical and in-depth manner, linked with accountability, publicity and transparency; continue to create a favorable environment to attract investment resources for education and training development, ensuring fairness and equality between the public and private sectors; promote public-private cooperation; and promote non-profit education and training at the university level.

Develop, review, amend and supplement appropriate policies and remuneration regimes for the teaching staff; recruit and restructure the teaching staff according to the assigned payroll, overcome the surplus and shortage of teachers in educational institutions, ensure the principle of "where there are students, there must be teachers in the classroom" and be suitable for practice.

Along with that, continue to review and plan the network of preschool, general education, continuing education, education for the disabled, higher education and pedagogical colleges. The Ministry of Education and Training, ministries, branches and localities should pay attention to construction planning, ensuring suitable land funds to build schools and classrooms, meeting learning needs associated with urbanization trends and population shifts.

Emphasizing that education and training need to be given due attention to create a driving force for rapid and sustainable national development, the Prime Minister reiterated the teachings of President Ho Chi Minh: “Universities need to combine scientific theory with practice...; secondary schools need to ensure students have solid, practical general knowledge...; primary schools need to educate children: Love the Fatherland, love the people, love labor, love science, respect public property..., and pay special attention to maintaining the health of children”; “Families should closely contact schools, help schools educate and encourage children to study hard, live healthily and enthusiastically help the people”.

The Prime Minister analyzed and requested the effective implementation of the motto: "Taking students as the center and subject; teachers as the driving force; schools as the support; families as the fulcrum; society as the foundation," the Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Education and Training, ministries, branches, and localities according to their functions, tasks, and authority to focus on effectively implementing the above motto; prioritize resource allocation, upgrading facilities, ensuring hygiene, security, and school safety; clearly evaluate annual results to learn from experience and continue to do better in the coming time.

On the eve of the new school year 2024-2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh wished all management staff, teachers and lecturers to always promote their sense of responsibility and enthusiasm for the profession, overcome all difficulties and challenges, persevere in the goal of fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training, meet the expectations of the Party, State and people, and turn the Vietnamese people into a wise nation, as beloved President Ho Chi Minh always wished.

The Prime Minister wished the new school year 2024-2025 great success; good health and happiness for teachers, contributing more to the cause of "cultivating people"; students always being good children, good students, successfully realizing their dreams and ambitions, contributing to building the homeland and country to become more and more prosperous.

After the end of the national conference summarizing the 2023-2024 school year, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Tran Duc Thang requested the education and training sector of Hai Duong and localities to absorb the direction of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Education and Training, the Central Government's report and comments at the conference, from which to know where Hai Duong province is in the country in terms of education and training.

The Provincial Party Secretary affirmed that the provincial leaders always consider education as the main driving force for development, in which the role of human resources is very important. Therefore, departments, branches and localities need to pay attention to and participate in specific tasks so that each semester and each school year has better results. The province will always pay special attention and allocate funds to meet the legitimate needs of the education and training sector.

In the 2023-2024 school year, the education and training sector of Hai Duong province continues to achieve positive results. The work of universalizing preschool education, primary education, and secondary education continues to be effectively implemented. The entire sector has made efforts to effectively implement the new 2018 general education program, promoting the qualities and abilities of students...