Vietnam's education sector must improve its management if it is to raisestandards, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said on July 29 at ameeting in Hanoi.
In the 2009-10 academic year, about 92.57 percent of high schoolstudents passed the graduation exam – 8.97 percent higher than in theprevious school year.
Nhan attributed the improvement to management programmes that had been introduced that academic year.
High school principals around the country underwent re-trainingcourses that focused on leadership, while education managers learned howto adapt to being financially independent.
Theywere also told how to best promote their school's achievements in termsof training quality, finance, infrastructure facilities andteaching/learning conditions.
Nhan said the Ministryof Education and Training should continue to implement programmesdesigned to boost educational management.
He saidthe focus should be on implementing new programmes for pre-schools thatincluded a combination of different teaching methods, the application ofe-learning, extra-training for students who were performing badly andboosting the management skills of staff.
Nhan alsourged the ministry to work with provincial authorities on developingschools for gifted students to provide high-quality human resources forthe country's development, and said greater emphasis should be placed onforeign-language learning.
Education and TrainingDeputy Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien said at the meeting that up to 96.4percent of pre-schools now apply information technology, while 82.8percent are connected to the internet.
Secondary schools nowmeet universal standards, while more than half of all pre-schools haveadopted educational programmes.
However, despiteimprovements in education, Hien said schools had yet to meet nationaldevelopment demand. He also said there was a teacher shortage, a lack ofinfrastructure, a high drop-out rate and too much emphasis placed onpassive learning./.
In the 2009-10 academic year, about 92.57 percent of high schoolstudents passed the graduation exam – 8.97 percent higher than in theprevious school year.
Nhan attributed the improvement to management programmes that had been introduced that academic year.
High school principals around the country underwent re-trainingcourses that focused on leadership, while education managers learned howto adapt to being financially independent.
Theywere also told how to best promote their school's achievements in termsof training quality, finance, infrastructure facilities andteaching/learning conditions.
Nhan said the Ministryof Education and Training should continue to implement programmesdesigned to boost educational management.
He saidthe focus should be on implementing new programmes for pre-schools thatincluded a combination of different teaching methods, the application ofe-learning, extra-training for students who were performing badly andboosting the management skills of staff.
Nhan alsourged the ministry to work with provincial authorities on developingschools for gifted students to provide high-quality human resources forthe country's development, and said greater emphasis should be placed onforeign-language learning.
Education and TrainingDeputy Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien said at the meeting that up to 96.4percent of pre-schools now apply information technology, while 82.8percent are connected to the internet.
Secondary schools nowmeet universal standards, while more than half of all pre-schools haveadopted educational programmes.
However, despiteimprovements in education, Hien said schools had yet to meet nationaldevelopment demand. He also said there was a teacher shortage, a lack ofinfrastructure, a high drop-out rate and too much emphasis placed onpassive learning./.
