Speaking at the 25th Session of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, on behalf of the education sector, expressed his joy that what the education sector has done in recent times has been recognized with the moderate, cautious and considerate assessments of the monitoring delegation.

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son speaks.

“The most valuable thing is that after this monitoring session, many members of the Monitoring Team also expressed that they have adjusted their perspective on the education sector and have a more optimistic, warm and bright feeling about schools and education,” the commander of the education sector expressed.

Minister Nguyen Kim Son said that the general education reform according to the 2018 general education program is the most in-depth, comprehensive and thorough reform compared to previous reforms implemented since the mid-20th century.

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, countries are just trying to keep education activities normal. But Vietnam is still fighting the pandemic, maintaining education activities, and at the same time, still carrying out education reforms at that critical time of life and death.

“In the dual goals and dual tasks, achieving what the report has recorded is an extraordinary effort of millions of teachers and students. It is the effort of the Government, ministries, branches, 63 provinces and cities across the country, and the attention of the National Assembly in promptly deciding policies for education and training during the past time,” said Minister Nguyen Kim Son.

The Commander of the Education Sector thanked the Monitoring Delegation for acknowledging the results of educational innovation.

Emphasizing that program implementation is a flexible process, a program development rather than just implementation, Minister Nguyen Kim Son said that the Ministry of Education and Training is adjusting the circular on book selection; improving the control of the book compilation and testing process, the quality of book appraisal, and teacher guidance has also been gradually adjusted. The publishing and distribution activities of textbooks of the Education Publishing House have been strongly adjusted in recent years, towards increasing product quality, reducing book prices and increasing student support measures.

The head of the education sector made an “urgent” recommendation: As assessed in the first part of the monitoring report, the implementation has achieved important and noteworthy results, creating positive changes. That proves that the policy is correct, the path is correct, the way of doing is correct, correct in the big and fundamental aspects.

“Currently, we are in the middle of the journey, initial difficulties and obstacles are inevitable, but they are being overcome and improved and getting better. The big issue now is to carry out in-depth innovation, innovate teaching, learning, testing and evaluation methods, increase the quality of innovation, strengthen the conditions for successful innovation, try to stabilize policies until the end of the innovation cycle, after 2025 when there are real outputs of the new program, then consider major policy adjustments if any,” Minister Nguyen Kim Son emphasized.

Session view.

Minister Nguyen Kim Son proposed that the National Assembly Standing Committee draft a resolution assigning the Ministry of Education and Training to submit to the Government and the National Assembly plans to strengthen conditions to ensure educational innovation, to ensure enough teachers, to ensure sufficient income for teachers to truly live on their profession, to feel motivated and continue to strive for innovation and self-innovation, to devote themselves to their students, to shoulder well and feel secure with the heavy and stressful work.

“The decisive factor for the success of innovation is the human factor, the teachers. The limit of the quantity and quality of teachers, the limit of the capacity and qualifications of teachers is the limit of innovation and the quality of education,” said Minister Nguyen Kim Son.

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