On December 6, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Education and Training held a conference of directors of continuing education centers nationwide.
Reporting at the conference, Director of the Department of Continuing Education (Ministry of Education and Training) Hoang Duc Minh said: In the 2023-2024 school year, the country will have 92 continuing education centers, 526 vocational education-continuing education centers; the number of classrooms and functional rooms at continuing education centers, vocational education-continuing education centers is 10,658; laboratories, libraries, and computers is 4,438. Basically, up to now, the material facilities of the centers have ensured the minimum for teaching and learning continuing education programs.
Implementing continuing education programs, in the 2023-2024 school year, the whole country mobilized 90,508 students to participate in literacy classes, an increase of nearly 2.8 times the number of students compared to the previous school year, of which ethnic minority students accounted for 93.73%.
The number of learners participating in popular specialized classes to update knowledge and skills and other regular training classes at community learning centers, continuing education centers, and vocational education-continuing education centers is more than 23 million learners.
However, according to the Ministry of Education and Training, although continuing education centers and vocational education-continuing education centers play an important role in building a learning society and developing human resources, there are also some limitations that need to be overcome to improve the effectiveness of the centers. That is, the quality of education is uneven; facilities and equipment are still lacking; the ability to update and apply information technology is still limited; some localities still lack effective mechanisms to monitor and inspect the quality of teaching and learning...
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Speaking at the conference, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son affirmed: Continuing education has overcome difficulties, made efforts, and achieved many things, but frankly, innovation in continuing education is still moderate and there is still much to do ahead. The goal is to innovate more strongly to match the innovation of the entire sector.
Frankly pointing out that the attention paid to continuing education is still at a moderate level, according to the head of the education sector, one of the immediate issues that needs to be done is to evaluate, position, and re-perceive in order to have the necessary attitude and behavior towards continuing education from the outside, inside, and from top to bottom.
The more society develops, the richer the country becomes, the more life changes, the greater the need to learn new knowledge and new skills to adapt. Therefore, there needs to be a plan to innovate in methods, administration, policies, investment... in the field of continuing education to provide human resources in the future.
Minister Nguyen Kim Son also pointed out a series of tasks that continuing education will have to continue to be the "core", such as actively implementing the eradication of illiteracy and re-illiteracy in adults; actively building a learning society, lifelong learning and preparing for the development of the Law on Lifelong Learning. Along with that, well performing the new task of preparing for the movement of popularizing digital education, "eradicating digital illiteracy", and popularizing digital; together with the entire education system implementing the conclusion of the Politburo, gradually making English the second language in schools...
Continuing education centers, vocational education-continuing education centers need to closely follow the locality, grasp the development strategy and human resource needs of the locality; proactively propose policies and models, boldly innovate, pilot innovations..., prepare for the upcoming innovation period.
At the conference, leaders of the Departments of Education and Training and Directors of continuing education centers discussed management results and operational experiences, shared difficulties and problems, and proposed and recommended solutions to overcome difficulties, further promoting the effectiveness of continuing education in developing education, training, and building a learning society and lifelong learning.
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