2009-2010 school year: a year to improve education quality management

Brilliant students receive the rewards and certificates of merit from the Ministry of Education and Training

    The report of the Department of Education and Training shows that the Pre-school Education Sector has gradually improved its quality. The rate of 3-to-5-year-old kids going to pre-schools is 80% and this rate of 5-year-old kids is 99.8%. Pre-school malnutrition kids decrease by 8.2%. Kindergarten malnutrition kids go down by 1.4%. The rate of kindergarten kids declines by 1.2%. At present, all communes, wards and towns in the province have pre-schools. There are public pre-schools in hinterland areas. At primary-school level, the number of brilliant and good students is greater than that last year. The schools with classes for both morning and afternoon sessions rise by 24 compared to the same period. At junior high school level, the rate of academically brilliant students is up by 2.48%, and the rate of good students up by 0.94%. The rate of medium students is down by 1.58%, the rate of poor students down by 1.77% and the rate of weak students down by 0.07%. The localities having a higher rate of poor and weak students than the average rate of the whole province are: Long Khanh, Thong Nhat, Cam My, Trang Bom, Long Thanh, Vinh Cuu and Nhon Trach. At high school level, the rate of academically brilliant students is up by 0.59%, good students up by 2.68%, medium students down by 1.01%, poor students down by 2.19% and weak students down by 0.07%. The public high schools with a greater number of poor and weak students than the average number of the whole province are: Huynh Van Nghe, Xuan My, Dau Giay, Nhon Trach, Dac Lua, Xuan Hung, Phuoc Thien, Bau Ham, Song Ray, Dong Nai Ethnic Boarding School and Phu Ngoc.

    In terms of the school building, Dong Nai Education Sector has built 454 new classrooms. 100% of high schools have been equipped with basic teaching equipment for grade-12 classes at a cost of VND4.6 billion. Three high schools have been equipped with three computer rooms and six junior high schools with six computer rooms at a total cost of VND1.7 billion ...

An agreement on educational cooperation is signed with departments, committees and sectors in the province

    However, the Department of Education and Training says that the Education Sector is facing lots of difficulties in the process of carrying out its tasks. For example, there has been a lack of effective cooperation with departments, sectors, organizations and unions. A small number of managers, civil servants, teachers and students haven’t enthusiastically responded to the big movements of the Education Sector. The education quality has not been improved systematically and drop-outs remain a problem.

    With the slogan, “A new school year is a year to improve the education quality management”, the Education Sector will focus on the main tasks: continuing the implementation of the campaign “Study and follow the ethical example of President Ho Chi Minh”, launching the campaign “Two DON’Ts” including four contents: “Say no to exam cheating and achievement hunting” and “Say no teachers’ moral violations and students’ sitting in wrong classes” and continuing the implementation of the emulation movement, “Building a friendly school and active students” at secondary schools, pre-schools...

Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People's Committee – Huynh Thi Nga makes a speech at the meeting

    Addressing the meeting, Vice chairwoman of the provincial People's Committee – Huynh Thi Nga – praised the Education Sector for its efforts in the last school year. Also, she noted that it should focus on improving managers’ management skills and education quality to aim at a modern education. To be able to do this, teachers and students play a major role. Thus, every teacher is required to keep learning, improving their professional skills and applying IT to their teaching. Each student is required to have a self-awareness, to study actively and to train themselves. Also, he emphasized that the Education Sector has obtained great achievements in education and training over the past years but it hasn’t been able to reach the plan goals in the Resolution of the provincial Party Committee. The rate of high school graduates hasn’t been able to reach over 85%. The rate of illiteracy eradication is ranked 24/63. Educationally, Dong Nai is ranked 31/63 provinces and cities. For that reason, the Education Sector needs to make more efforts.

Collectives completing their tasks successfully are commended

    At the meeting, the Education Sector signed a co-emulation partnership agreement and an educationally cooperative agreement with the departments, committees and sectors in the province.

    On this occasion, Ministry of Education and Training, Dong Nai People's Committee and Department of Education and Training awarded many certificates of merit and commendation to individuals, collectives, teachers and students, who have obtained great achievements in their teaching and study. In addition, the provincial People’s Committee awarded emulation flags to three units with outstanding achievements.

(Reported by Thu Dung, Translated by Duy Minh)