National committee on education reform to be set up

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a decision allowing the establishment of a national committee on education and training reform.

He will be the President of the committee, while the Vice President positions will be taken over by head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Popularisation and Education Dinh The Huynh and Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

The committee will help convey the Prime Minister’s instructions to ministries, sectors and localities on how to better put forth policies relating to education and training reform.

It will inspect the implementation of important strategies, programmes and projects that help change the quality and effectiveness of education and vocational training.-VNA