The Prime Minister has signed a decision to transfer and appoint Mr. Le Tan Dung, Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, to hold the position of Deputy Minister of Education and Training.

According to the assigned tasks, Deputy Minister Le Tan Dung is in charge of the following areas: Planning - finance, public investment; school facilities and equipment; socialization of education; sectoral and local planning; flood and storm prevention, natural disasters and climate change; digital transformation, application of information technology in the assigned fields.

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Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son presents decisions to officials who have been transferred, accepted, and appointed to hold the positions of department head, bureau head, and unit manager. Photo: Tran Hiep

Also at the ceremony, the Ministry of Education and Training announced decisions on job transfers; appointment and reappointment of civil servants to leadership positions; and announced decisions on Party committee personnel.

Information on new personnel appointments of the Ministry of Education and Training:

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Sending his expectations to the heads and deputy heads of units receiving decisions on transfer, new appointment, and reappointment, Minister Nguyen Kim Son shared about the important, heavy, and honorable tasks and missions of education and training in the current period and in the development of the country.

Accordingly, from March 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training will take on the additional work of vocational education. At the same time, the education sector will also begin implementing the Education Development Strategy to 2030, with a vision to 2045; begin implementing two major plans: the Plan for the network of higher education and pedagogical institutions for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050 and the Plan for the system of specialized educational institutions for people with disabilities and the system of centers supporting the development of inclusive education for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050. This is also the time to arrange and restructure the entire education system...

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Minister Nguyen Kim Son presented decisions to officials who were transferred, received, and appointed to the positions of deputy department heads and deputy department heads.

“We cannot think, act, and work with old habits, otherwise we will not be able to fulfill our responsibilities in the new period,” Minister Son noted. He also hoped that each head and deputy head of the Ministry of Education and Training in their new positions at a time of many new demands will renew themselves, quickly adapt, fulfill their responsibilities well, and contribute to the overall innovation.

According to Decree No. 37/2025/ND-CP, the organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training includes:

1. Department of Preschool Education (remain unchanged)

2. Department of General Education (on the basis of merging the Department of Primary Education and the Department of Secondary Education).

3. Department of Higher Education (remain unchanged).

4. Department of National Defense and Security Education (remain unchanged).

5. Department of Students (on the basis of merging the Department of Physical Education and the Department of Political Education and Student Affairs).

6. Legal Department (remain unchanged).

7. Department of Organization and Personnel (remain unchanged).

8. Department of Planning and Finance (on the basis of merging the Department of Planning and Finance and the Department of Facilities).

9. Office (remains the same).

10. Inspector (remain unchanged).

11. Department of Teachers and Education Managers (remains the same).

12. Department of Quality Management (remains the same).

13. Department of Science, Technology and Information (on the basis of merging the Department of Science, Technology and Environment and the Department of Information Technology).

14. Department of International Cooperation (remain unchanged).

15. Department of Vocational Education and Continuing Education (on the basis of reorganizing the General Department of Vocational Education and the Department of Continuing Education).

16. Education and Times Newspaper (remains the same).

17. Education Magazine (remains the same).

18. Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences (remains the same).

In addition, end the operation of the Department of Ethnic Education, transfer functions and tasks to appropriate units under the Ministry.

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