This morning (November 12), the Hanoi Department of Education and Training held a ceremony to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the capital's education and training sector (1954 - 2024) and the 42nd anniversary of Vietnamese Teachers' Day.

Mr. Tran The Cuong - Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, emphasized that over the past 70 years, the capital's education sector has made remarkable progress in both scale and quality. In the coming time, the entire sector will focus on continuing to innovate education towards approaching the advanced level of the region and the world; building Hanoi into a global learning city...

Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son acknowledged and praised the achievements that the Hanoi education sector has achieved and affirmed that, after 70 years of development, Hanoi has always been one of the pioneering units, leading in all tasks of the entire sector.

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Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son. Photo: Hoang Thanh.

However, the capital's education sector, as a pillar of the country's education sector, is also facing common challenges and opportunities.

According to the Minister, the capital's education needs to aim higher than the general requirements of the whole country, aiming to educate and create elegant capital citizens with cultural awareness, social responsibility and knowing how to live happily for themselves and for the community.

They are citizens with high cultural qualities, scientific and technological skills, civilized and elegant citizens of the digital age, good at expertise and good at foreign languages.

The Minister believes that to achieve the above goal, the capital's education system must aim for an elegant education system. In which, schools must be elegant schools, teachers and students must be elegant.

There, schools must be places where students are guaranteed safety, no school violence, no swearing, no forced extra classes. There, social evils are avoided and there, there exists a typical cultural school environment. Most importantly, people treat each other with love and responsibility.

To have an elegant education system, it is necessary to implement well the culture of education and cultural education. The elegance of education can be completely built on the foundation of the good achievements that we have.

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Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son presented the title to People's Teacher Nguyen Trong Vinh at the ceremony. Photo: Hoang Thanh.

Primary education needs to focus on solving urgent issues such as: Reducing the gap in educational quality between regions and schools; reducing the gap between the results of key education and mass education so that students in any region, school, or class can access the best educational environment and quality...

This is to create an educational environment with proper discipline, where the quality of education is guaranteed, the dignity of the teaching profession is respected. Only with an elegant education towards international standards, can we create civilized and elegant people of the capital in the new era.

"Being a teacher is a noble and honorable job, and being a teacher in the capital is even more honorable and proud. I wish you all to always find joy in your work and always be happy with your career," said Minister Nguyen Kim Son.

Also at the ceremony, on behalf of the President, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Bui Thi Minh Hoai awarded the First Class Labor Medal to the Hanoi Department of Education and Training; and awarded the titles of People's Teacher and Meritorious Teacher to 56 teachers.

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