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UN urges investment in teachers for learning society in Vietnam

The United Nations has called on Vietnam to set up strategies on the development and management of teachers to provide enough qualified and devoted instructors for remote areas to meet the national target the universalisation of junior secondary education by 2010.
The United Nations has called onVietnam to set up strategies on the development and management ofteachers to provide enough qualified and devoted instructors for remoteareas to meet the national target the universalisation of juniorsecondary education by 2010.

The recommendation wasmade by the Head of the UNESCO-Hanoi Office, Katherine Muller Marin, ata ceremony to mark Vietnam Teachers’ Day in Hanoi on November 21.

Marin emphasised that the strategies are very necessary also tomaintain major progress, especially in the movement “Education forAll”, made by the educational sector in the recent past.

She called on the educational sector to focus on quality in itstraining programmes, especially in preschool, vocational training andtertiary education.

Once all these challenges are solved, the target of realizing alearning society will be in sight, said the representative from theUnited Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

The UN pledged to help the Vietnamese Government in career developmentfor teachers in order to speed up its progress towards this goal./.
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