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Workshop discusses building learning society

A workshop to seek solutions to promote the building of a learning society in the central region opened in the central city of Hue on December 11.
A workshop to seek solutions to promote the building of a learningsociety in the central region opened in the central city of Hue onDecember 11.

More than 120 delegates from 19central cities and provinces attended the two-day event which wasorganized by the Ministry of Education and Training in collaborationwith the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Education andPopularisation, the Vietnam Study Encouragement Association and UNESCOVietnam.

Participants focused discussion on the role andresponsibility of Party committees, authorities, communities andindividuals in creating opportunities for people to participate andbenefit from lifelong learning.

They sharedexperience in how to build a learning society at grassroots level andimplementing plans under the national project in the field to 2020.-VNA
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