President Tran Dai Quang visits tradition house of the Ministry of Education and Training (Photo: VNA) Duringa New Year visit to the Ministry of Education and Training on February 4, thePresident asked the sector to reform its educating approach to optimizecreativity and start-up skills of learners.
Thesector should work harder in supporting the cooperation between trainingfacilities and enterprises, while seeking new training models in combinationwith the restructuring of training programmes in a number of areas to produce acontingent of “global engineers,” he suggested.
TheState leader stressed the need to improve the capacity of teachers andmanagement officials to serve the comprehensive reform of education andtraining, as well as the necessity to pay more attention to education andtraining in remote and poor areas, ensuring policy beneficiaries and ethnicminority people access education.
Healso asked the sector to assist labourers in switching jobs and ensuresustainable eradication of illiteracy, while expanding internationalpartnership and encouraging foreign and Overseas Vietnamese experts to work ateducation and research facilities in Vietnam.
Alongside,the sector should forge closer links between training facilities andscience-technology organizations and research institutes, while building strongresearch groups and institutes, universities to the regional standards invarious fields, he requested.
PresidentTran Dai Quang also asked ministries, sectors and localities invest more ineducation as part of efforts to boost the country’s growth.
Lookingback to the education sector’s performance in 2016, the President acknowledgedthe efforts and achievements of the sector, especially in fixing shortcomingsof the high school graduation and university entrance exams in 2015.
Studentssent to international and regional Olympiads reaped high results, he noted,adding that Vietnam successfully hosted the 27th Biology Olympiadwith the participation of 250 students from 68 countries and territories.According to the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment for 2015,Vietnam also ranked eight among 72 countries in terms of science.
In2016, Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha issued a decreespecifying nine major tasks and five measures for the sector in the 2016-2017academic year, focusing on improving the quality of teachers and education managementofficials at all levels, strengthening the autonomy of tertiary educationfacilities, and developing high quality human resources.-VNA
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