Education and Training sector needs specific objectives and solutions, says Provincial Party Committee’s Secretary

Provincial Party Committee’s Secretary Tran Dinh Thanh spoke at the working session

Le Minh Hoang, Director of DOET, said the educational quality is developing with real results and increasingly enhanced. He cited the much fewer malnourished children against the previous year in pre-school education as an example.

In primary education, pupils have enough textbooks to study, he said, teaching equipment is used regularly and 98.68 percent of pupils finish the primary program, up 2.18 percent. In high school and continuing education, he said, teaching approaches are much reformed with active evaluation methods, which helps show the real educational quality, adding that graduates from secondary schools reach 95.55%, up 1.42%, those form high schools get 75.93%, up 3.6% and those from continuation schools reach 27.88%, up 10.08%.

Concerning vocational and teacher training, the province is training 50 different careers with 3,949 graduates form vocational schools and 1,081 graduates from colleges, said Hoang.

Computer science class at Thong Nhat A School

However, according to DOET, the sector is fraught with difficulties. Besides the typical difficulties of each school levels, administration is improperly decentralized in localities so the collaboration among departments, sectors and organizations fail to be overall. In many localities, especially in remote areas, the material facilities are not enough and cannot meet the demand for the reformed learning and teaching methods. A group of teachers and students do not catch up with the demand due to their limited abilities or their slow awareness changes.

Addressing the working session, Tran Dinh Thanh highly appreciated the achievements the education sector has gained in the last years, especially the achievements gained in illiteracy elimination, education universalization, supplement of teaching forces and building of new and spacious schools.

However, the Secretary said these results have yet matched the province’s position in the southern key economic zone. Therefore, he suggested the sector work out a specific action program from now to 2010 and act as an education counselor for the province to 2020.

Reported by Thu Dung, Translated by Tuyenvanah