Education and training development in the Capital Law 2024

Kinhtedothi - The 2024 Capital Law defines the goal of developing education and training in the Capital: "Developing education and training so that the Capital becomes a large, typical center of the country in high-quality education and training..."

Development of education and training (Article 22; Clause 2, Article 43)

Resolution No. 15-NQ/TW defines the direction of education development in the capital: "Attracting social resources to invest in education and training development; a school system with many levels, high-quality schools; types of domestic and international training cooperation".

The 2024 Law on the Capital defines the goal of developing education and training in the Capital: “Developing education and training so that the Capital becomes a large, typical center of the country in high-quality education and training, adapting to the process of national digital transformation, innovation and international integration” (Clause 1, Article 22).

The 2024 Capital Law defines the goal of developing education and training in the Capital: "Developing education and training so that the Capital becomes a large, typical center of the country in high-quality education and training...". Photo: Hong Thai

The 2024 Capital Law inherits the provisions on education in the 2012 Capital Law, and at the same time supplements a number of specific policies to develop the capital's education and training towards the above goals.

Specifically: a) Allow public preschools and general education institutions in the capital to carry out educational cooperation with foreign educational institutions and assign the Government to specify in detail the conditions, procedures, educational programs, and the granting of diplomas and certificates (Clause 3, Article 22).

The current law only allows private educational institutions to conduct joint training. This new regulation of the Capital Law 2024 is aimed at creating a legal basis to promote the development of domestic and international joint training forms in public educational and training institutions, improve the training quality of preschool education and public general education institutions in the capital, and create favorable conditions for students and children to access high-quality education.

b) Decentralize the City People's Council to prescribe a number of specific policies, different from current laws on education and training development in the city.

- Regulations on financial mechanisms applicable to high-quality public educational institutions, public educational institutions with multiple levels of education, and public educational institutions implementing educational cooperation with foreign educational institutions (Point a, Clause 4, Article 22).

- Support tuition fees for high school students and preschool children in the city regardless of public, private and non-public schools; support tuition fees for vocational training at intermediate and college levels for learners residing in Hanoi (point b, clause 4, Article 22).

Currently, the current law does not have specific regulations on financial mechanisms applicable to high-quality public educational institutions, public educational institutions with many levels of education, and public educational institutions implementing educational cooperation with foreign educational institutions, so financial management is difficult. The current law also does not have regulations on service price support for students regardless of public or private schools. These regulations will contribute to promoting the socialization of education, attracting domestic and foreign investors to invest in expanding the private school system, gradually reducing the burden on the public school system, and better meeting the learning needs of society.

c) Decentralize the City People's Committee to regulate some specific contents, superior to current laws on high-quality education and supplement and adjust the education program.

- The City People's Committee regulates high-quality education:

+ Criteria on facilities, management staff, teachers, curriculum, teaching methods and educational services of high-quality educational institutions and multi-level educational institutions (point a, clause 5, Article 22);

+ Procedures for recognition and revocation of decisions on recognition of high-quality educational institutions; assessment, inspection, and quality assurance of high-quality educational institutions (point b, clause 5, Article 22). The City People's Committee decides to recognize and revocation of decisions on recognition of high-quality educational institutions (clause 6, Article 22).

The high-quality education model at some preschool and general education institutions has been stipulated in the Capital Law 2012. Specific regulations on high-quality schools in the Capital Law 2012 have been applied stably since 2013. Therefore, this regulation of the Capital Law 2024 is the completion and legalization of regulations that have been tested in practice.

- The City People's Committee regulates the adjustment and supplementation of preschool and general education programs for a number of subjects and supplementary educational activities at high-quality public educational institutions to suit the economic, cultural and social conditions of the Capital, contributing to better meeting the needs of improving understanding and transmitting knowledge, values, and unique cultural beauty of the Capital while increasing the initiative and creative thinking of students; bringing the Capital's educational program closer to the advanced education of the region and the world (point c, clause 5, Article 22).

d) Apply investment incentives

Investment incentives for investment projects to establish new preschools, high-quality educational institutions, multi-level educational institutions; preschools, general education institutions in areas with socio-economic difficulties; training facilities for people with disabilities and children in difficult circumstances. Investors with the above projects are entitled to incentives in terms of exemption and reduction of land rent, water surface rent, tax rates and exemption and reduction of corporate income tax (Clause 1, 2, Article 43).

To make Hanoi a typical center of high-quality education and training

The new points on education and training in Article 22 of the 2024 Capital Law clearly demonstrate profound significance, affirming the inheritance and consistency in the viewpoints of the Party, the State in general and Hanoi in particular. That is, always promoting the role and position of education and training, considering this as the top national policy to promote, build and develop the capital's socio-economy quickly and sustainably.

Expressing his opinion, Dr. Nguyen Tung Lam - Vice President of the Vietnam Association of Educational Psychology, said that the 2024 Capital Law with many specific regulations allows Hanoi to do many things. The education sector needs to be ahead of the whole country, maintaining its "leading" position. The Hanoi education sector needs to focus on building schools with 4 factors: Autonomy, democracy, humanity, creativity, in which autonomy is very important. Each school needs to be autonomous in choosing educational methods, building educational programs suitable for students and educational conditions, helping students maximize their abilities and qualities.

It can be said that the birth of the Capital Law 2024 will have many specific mechanisms for Hanoi to improve the quality of comprehensive education; gradually building the Capital into a truly large, typical center of the country in high-quality education and training.

At the same time, the Capital Law also empowers Hanoi to be more proactive in financial mechanisms, supporting tuition fees for learners in the city regardless of public, private and non-public schools as well as many other fields to ensure "Developing education and training so that the Capital becomes a large, typical center of the country in high-quality education and training, adapting to the process of national digital transformation, innovation and international integration".

Meanwhile, according to Dr. Ngo Van Hiep (lecturer at the Capital University), as the "heart of the whole country", Hanoi needs to have the necessary mechanisms and policies to develop education and training so that the capital city of Hanoi can truly be a large, typical center of the whole country in high-quality education and training, adapting to the process of national digital transformation, innovation and international integration.

The Capital Law 2024 with many unique, outstanding and breakthrough policies and mechanisms aims to build and develop the Capital worthy of its position as a political, administrative, economic and cultural center, towards a smart, modern, green, clean, beautiful and safe urban area; develop rapidly, sustainably, and have a spreading effect to promote the Red River Delta, the key economic region of the North and the whole country.

The completion and amendment of the Capital Law with many breakthrough policies such as: on education and training development; science, technology, innovation and digital transformation; attracting and employing talented people... have impacted universities and colleges in the city.

This is the basis for schools to diversify their education types; expand cooperative relations with many countries; attract high-quality human resources for the capital; respect and employ virtuous and talented people; develop scientific and technological products so that the capital deserves to be the cultural, political and economic center of the whole country.

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan - Chairman of the Council of Capital University

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