The Ministry of Education and Training summarizes the school year 2021-2022

On the morning of August 12, 2022, the Ministry of Education and Training held an online conference to summarize the 2021-2022 school year, implementing the tasks of the 2022-2023 school year. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attended and directed the conference.

Mr. Duong Xuan Huyen, Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee and departments, agencies and sectors attended the conference in Lang Son province

Attending the conference in Lang Son province were Mr. Duong Xuan Huyen, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee; leaders of the Propaganda Commission of the Provincial Party Committee and departments and sectors in the province.

The 2021-2022 school year takes place when the COVID-19 pandemic re-emerges and becomes complicated, so the education sector has actively changed its operating status, flexibly organizing teaching according to the school year plan framework.

As a result, at the preschool level, 63/63 provinces and cities maintain and meet the standards of preschool education universalization for 5-year-old children; the rate of 5-year-old preschool children completing the preschool program is 99.7%. For primary and secondary schools, in the 2021-2022 school year, 63/63 provinces and cities maintain and meet the standards of universal primary and secondary education, in which 25/63 provinces and cities were recognized by the Ministry of Education and Training to achieve the standard of universal primary education level 3 (increasing by 5% compared to the previous school year). At the high school level, the national high school graduation rate of students is 98.57%.

Along with general education, the sector has paid attention to effectively implementing spearhead education activities, notably, in the regional and international Olympic competitions in 2021-2022, the teams all achieved outstanding results with 37/39 students winning prizes. Including 12 gold medals, 11 silver medals, 9 bronze medals. According to the ranking results of the best countries for education in 2021 by USNEWS, Vietnam ranked 59th, up 5 places compared to 2020.

For Lang Son province, in the 2021-2022 school year, the comprehensive education of students in schools is concerned, and the organization of exams and competitions is effectively and on schedule. Notably, at the national excellent student competition in the academic year 2021-2022, the province had 12 winners, including 1 first prize, 3 third prizes, and 8 consolation prizes (an increase of 2 prizes compared to the previous school year).

In the new school year 2022 – 2023, the Ministry of Education and Training continues to innovate state management in the field of education and training in the direction of decentralization, streamlining, effectiveness and efficiency, ensuring a constructive role for educational development; consolidate and improve the quality of education; strengthen political and ideological education for cadres and teachers and promote education of revolutionary ideals, morality and lifestyle for pupils and students; increase investment resources for education….

At the conference, the delegates discussed the advantages and disadvantages in the implementation of local educational activities in the school year 2021-2022. At the same time, They proposed a number of issues to overcome difficulties in the coming time, focusing on contents such as additional staffing of teachers and school-level administrators; developing a mechanism for signing professional contracts for school staff; flexibly adjusting criteria in building national standard schools…

Addressing the conference, Mr. Vu Duc Dam, Deputy Prime Minister recognized and appreciated the efforts of the education sector in the past 2021-2022 school year.

Comrade requested: In the coming time, the education sector should stick to Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW, dated November 4, 2013 of the Party Central Committee on fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education, serving industrialization and modernization in a socialist-oriented market economy during international integrations” ensuring implementation of innovation at all stages to meet educational development requirements; strengthening university autonomy and governance; review, proactively propose mechanisms on tuition fees, building facilities suitable to each locality; reviewing, proactively propose mechanisms on tuition fees, build facilities suitable to each locality; actively apply information technology in education management and administration; coordinating with the Committee for Ethnic Minorities in formulating policies to support ethnic minority students in difficult areas; building the industry’s emulation criteria into reality; coordinating with the Ministry of Finance in studying, supplementing and proposing sources of mobilization of contributions in accordance with regulations; promoting digital transformation; mobilizing the power of the whole political system to ensure sustainable education quality.