The conference was held in a combination of in-person and online formats with the main bridge in Hanoi and 63 provincial/municipal bridges.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, Deputy Ministers Nguyen Van Phuc, Pham Ngoc Thuong, Hoang Minh Son, and Nguyen Thi Kim Chi chaired the conference.
At Lao Cai province, there was comrade Giang Thi Dung, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attending the conference.

The report at the conference assessed: With the close direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, together with the effective coordination of central ministries, branches, party committees, and local authorities; the support of the majority of people and parents; especially with the determination and responsibility of the team of teachers, education managers, and the efforts of students, the entire education sector has completed the 2023-2024 school year plan, with many positive results. The work of universalizing preschool education, primary education, secondary education, and illiteracy eradication continues to receive attention. The 2018 general education program with many new points has been implemented synchronously and fully in all subjects and educational activities of all classes nationwide. The quality of mass and key education continues to be improved. The Ministry of Education and Training has successfully organized the 2024 High School Graduation Exam. Autonomy in higher education is gradually becoming a reality.
In addition to the above achievements, the implementation of the 2023-2024 school year plan still has some shortcomings and limitations. The shortage of teachers is still common in most localities, local recruitment is slow, and the assigned number of positions has not been fully recruited, affecting the assurance and improvement of education quality. The network of preschool and general education facilities is not distributed reasonably in some places, and there is still a shortage of schools and classes in big cities, industrial parks, densely populated areas and mountainous areas. The work of ensuring safety for preschool children in independent and private preschool facilities, especially in urban areas, industrial parks and export processing zones, is still limited. The quality of university education has not met the human resource requirements for new economic sectors and high technology.

Speaking at the conference, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son affirmed: With the theme "Discipline, responsibility, continuous innovation, quality improvement", the 2024-2025 school year marks the end of the term of implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party. This is also the school year in which the 2018 General Education Program is implemented in all grades from grade 1 to grade 12; it is the first school year to organize the High School Graduation Exam according to the 2018 General Education Program. Therefore, the education and training sector focuses on a number of key tasks: Implementing Conclusion No. 91-KL/TW, dated August 12, 2024 of the Politburo to continue implementing Resolution 29-NQ/TW; ensuring ensure equitable access to education for all; ensure the nurturing, care and education of children to meet the requirements of the Preschool Education Program; develop Develop a team of teachers, lecturers and managers of educational institutions to ensure sufficient quantity and improve quality; effectively use the state budget and mobilize investment resources for education; strengthen education on revolutionary ideals, political ideology, ethics and lifestyle for managers, teachers, lecturers, staff, students and trainees; improve the quality of human resource training, especially high-quality human resources associated with scientific research and innovation; strengthen international integration in education; promote digital transformation and administrative reform in the whole sector; strengthen inspection, examination and handling of violations in the field of education and training; strengthen educational communication work.


At the conference, delegates, central departments, ministries and branches exchanged and shared experiences of localities. On that basis, they contributed solutions to effectively implement the tasks of the 2024-2025 school year and important tasks of the education sector assigned by the Party and the State.
Pointing out the causes and lessons learned, analyzing the context of the situation and key tasks and solutions for the 2024-2025 school year and the coming time, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh directed the Ministry of Education and Training, ministries, branches and localities to prioritize resource allocation, upgrading facilities, ensuring hygiene, security and safety of schools; 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 for building schools and classrooms, meeting learning needs associated with urbanization trends and population shifts.
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; promote non-profit education and training at the university level. At the same time, develop, review, amend and supplement appropriate policies and remuneration regimes for the teaching staff; carry out recruitment and restructuring of 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 reality.
On the eve of the new school year 2024 - 2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh wished the entire team of managers, teachers and lecturers to always promote their sense of responsibility and enthusiasm for the profession, overcome all difficulties, overcome all challenges, persevere in the goal of fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training, meeting the expectations of the Party, State and People.
For Lao Cai province, in the 2023-2024 school year, the quality of comprehensive education continues to have clear changes. The whole province currently has 403 standard schools. In the national excellent student competition, 63/99 candidates won prizes; in the national scientific research competition, 2/2 prizes were won (1 second prize and 1 third prize); in the high school graduation exam, 99.68% was ranked 4th out of 14 provinces in the midland and mountainous regions of the North (after Phu Tho, Tuyen Quang and Bac Giang); maintaining the first position in the emulation block of 7 northern mountainous provinces.
In the 2024-2025 school year, the education and training sector of Lao Cai province continues to persevere and be determined to implement the theme of the school year: "For beloved students; building disciplined - responsible - happy schools; innovation and integration", the whole sector continues to focus on breakthrough areas, namely: Promoting digital transformation in the education sector; improving the quality of teaching and learning foreign languages - international integration in education and training; building national standard schools, discovering and nurturing excellent and gifted students.
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