Innovating textbooks while ensuring standards and stability; overcoming the shortage of teachers are issues that Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the education sector to resolve.
At the 2022-2023 school year summary conference on the afternoon of August 18, the Prime Minister acknowledged a number of results of the education sector such as initial effectiveness in fundamental and comprehensive innovation; the national education system is increasingly perfect, approaching international standards; the quality of education at each level is consolidated.
In the coming school year and beyond, the head of the Government requested the Ministry of Education and Training to focus on resolving six groups of issues, including: resolutely not allowing drugs and social evils into schools, harming the moral health and personality of learners; overcoming violence, ensuring safety for teachers and students; innovating textbooks but ensuring standards and stable development; improving the quality of university, college and continuing education; reviewing the teaching and learning of Civic Education, if necessary, increasing the duration to bring about better results; finding solutions to overcome the shortage of teachers and schools, especially in remote, border and island areas.
"This is both the short-term and long-term vision of the education sector," said Mr. Chinh.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the 2022-2023 school year summary conference on the afternoon of August 18. Photo: MOET
Regarding the shortage of teachers, the Prime Minister acknowledged that this is one of the "failures" of the industry. He said that there is currently no policy to retain teachers, so last school year, more than 9,200 people quit or changed jobs. Overall, the country is short of 118,000 teachers at all levels.
Regarding this situation, Mr. Do Duc Duy, Secretary of Yen Bai Provincial Party Committee, said that the locality has only achieved 86.5% of the number of teachers compared to the norm. Over the past three years, the province has recruited teachers twice a year on average, with a total quota of 2,500, but has only received 1,300 applications, with "blank slates" in subjects such as Information Technology and English.
"New English and IT teachers are being recruited to the highlands with a support of 100 million VND per person, but we have not recruited any yet," said Mr. Duy.
Faced with this situation, in the coming school year, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Education and Training to focus on developing, amending and supplementing policies and appropriate remuneration regimes for teachers; improving the quality of training for pedagogical students and training and fostering teachers and managers; finding solutions to support teachers in remote areas and preschool teachers; and promptly considering increasing allowances for teachers.
Receiving the Prime Minister's direction, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said he will implement the necessary tasks with specific programs and plans, noting the points that need to be overcome.
The School Year Summary Conference is usually held by the Ministry of Education and Training every August. In addition to summarizing the results achieved by the education sector in the past school year, localities, schools and ministry leaders also discuss the remaining issues of the sector.
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