The education ministry has assured that there will be enough textbooks based on the new school curriculum, which will be adopted next year (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - The Ministry of Educationand Training has assured that there will be enough stocks of textbooks based onnew curriculums for all school grades starting in the 2020-21 academic year.
The new syllabus is being created after the National Assembly passed aresolution on reforming the curriculum and textbooks, and the ministry has theresponsibility of ensuring there are no shortages of the latter.
It has tasked its Vietnam Education Publishing House Limited Company and sixother publishers with compiling and publishing the new textbooks.
A National Assessment Council will be set up soon for evaluating the textbooks.
Since last year the Vietnam EducationPublishing House has been researching and compiling the textbooks and has evenpublished some first grade textbooks to trial them, an act that has come in forsome criticism in the media.
Itsaid 90 percent of the compilation work is complete and all the new textbookswould be submitted to the National Assessment Council for assessment by July.
The six other publishers, all owned by universities, have also said thetextbooks would be ready soon and submitted to the National Assessment Council.
Nguyen Xuan Thanh, deputy head of the ministry’s general secondary educationdepartment, said after the assessment and final approval are done, the ministrywould apprise the publishers about the printing plans to ensure the rightnumber is printed.
It will issue a circular to educational departments in provinces and cities tohelp them select the appropriate textbooks from the various options the sevenprinters will offer.
Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha explained that the ideabehind having a number of different options is to enable schools and teachersto be creative in teaching as envisaged by the programme.-VNA
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