Transcript GIÁO D*C PH* THÔNG * VI*T NAM TRONG TH*I K* H*I NH*P

THE DEVELOPMENT OF BASIC
EDUCATION IN VIETNAM DURING
THE INTEGRATION PROCESS
Dr. Vu Dinh Chuan
Director General
Secondary Education Department
Ministry of Education and Training
Contents
1. An overview of Vietnam education system
2. A review of Vietnam general education from 2001
to 2010
3.The context of developing Vietnam general
education in the period of 2011-2020
4. The context of developing Vietnam general
education in the period of 2011-2020
5. Objectives in general education development from
2011 to 2020
1. Achievements
 Education scale and education institution network were
developed:
+ The rate of children going to school:
- Primary education from 94% -> 97%;
- Lower secondary education from 70% -> 83%;
- Upper secondary education from 33% ->50%.
+ An extensive education institution network in the
country -> people have better learning opportunities.
+ One primary school per commune, one lower
secondary school per one or two communes; and at least
one upper secondary school per every district.
1. Achievements (2)
 Considerable improvements to the quality of general
education. The young generation’s intellectuality and
learning ability were enhanced. Elite education was
also valued.
 Vietnam succeeded in reaching the goal of illiteracy
eradication, national compulsory primary education
and lower secondary education universalisation.
Primary education for the appropriate age group is
also being promoted. Some provinces are carrying out
upper secondary universalisation.
1. Achievements (3)
 Social equality in approaching education has been
improved, especially for ethnic minorities. More
attention has been paid toward poor children, girl
children, and disadvantaged ones.
 Improved management in terms of decentralization
and more autonomy for local education institution.
1. Achievements (4)
 The teaching and management staff increased
strongly both in number and quality.
 The budget allocated for education is increasing with
approximately 20% of the total national budget. Other
resources have also been mobilized.
 School facilities have been increased in both scale
and quality. More classrooms and staff rooms have
been built especially in the mountainous and remote
areas.
2. Some limitations in Vietnam education
 The whole system not in comprehensive operation;
the continuation between levels of education is
sometimes interrupted and limited.
 Education quality and efficacy is considered under
expectations.
 School facilities and teaching equipment are
considered insufficient especially in remote areas.
 Teaching and management staff are considered not
able to efficiently meet the education challenges in the
new period.
 Curriculum contents, teaching methods, and the work
of testing and evaluating students are slow in reform.
The context of developing Vietnam general
education in the period of 2011-2020
 Vietnam became a member of WTO in 2006 and there
needs to be a strategy both in short term and long term
keeping pace with other countries.
 Industrialization and modernization in Vietnam is in a
new phase requiring the education system to reform.
 The 2011-2020 Vietnam’s development strategy makes
it clear that: A priority is to reform fundamentally and
thoroughly the national education system.
Objectives in general education development
from 2011 to 2020
1. General education is expected to be fundamentally and
thoroughly
renovated
toward
standardization,
modernization, socialization and international integration;
2. Holistic approach towards general education;
3. Moral education, soft skill education, creative capability
and practical skills are emphasized;
4. A high quality labor force for modernizing and
industrializing the country, guaranteeing social equality in
education and providing learning opportunity to everyone.
Objectives in general education development
from 2011 to 2020
5. Intensive research towards improving moral education,
soft skill education, legal education, foreign language
education as well as information technology.
6. By the year 2020, the rate of children going to school at
the appropriate age is aimed at 99%, 95% and 80% for
primary, lower and upper secondary education
respectively. 70% of disabled children are at school.
Measures to developing Vietnam
education in the period of 2011-2020
1. Education management reform
2. Teaching and management staff development
3. Reforming curriculum contents, teaching methods,
testing and evaluation and accreditation
4. Increasing investments in education
5. Enhancing supports for special need areas, minority
peoples and social invalids
6. Widening and increasing efficiency in international
education cooperation
Education management reform

Designing
framework.
and
finalizing
a
legal
document
 Optimizing national educational management.
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Implementing comprehensive decentralization.
Perfecting and improvising a cooperation mechanism
between local and central education agencies.
 Performing management according to the country’s
strategy, scheme and plan for education development
appropriate with the social context.
 Promoting the application of communication and
information technology.
Optimizing national educational management
 Strengthening and bettering the system of teachers’
training colleges and universities while innovating
curriculum and teaching methods.
 Ensuring there will be enough teachers to carry out
comprehensive general education.
 Standardizing in training, selecting, employing and
assessing teachers and education management staff.
Reform curriculum contents, teaching methods,
testing and evaluation and accreditation
 Comprehensive reform in curriculum and textbooks
from 2015.
 reform in education with an orientation toward
promoting students’ activeness, self-conscience,
initiative, creativeness and self studiousness. Promoting
ICT in schools.
 Periodical national evaluation of general education
students’ learning quality.
Increasing investments in education
 Innovating the education finance mechanism in order
to mobilize and use more effectively the government
and society resources allocated to education.
 Increasing the spending ratio on education in the total
national budget.
 Standardizing school facilities making sure there will
be enough funding and teaching equipment at all
education institutions.
Enhancing supports for special need areas,
minority peoples and social invalids
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Policies supporting and prioritizing education
development for special need areas, minority peoples,
social invalids and the poor.
 Policies prioritizing teaching and management staff in
special need, minority ethnic areas.
 Developing a system of special schools for disabled,
HIV, street children and other special need children…
Widening and increasing efficiency in
international education cooperation
 International cooperation between educational
institutions inside the country and overseas is
strongly encouraged in order to improve education
quality, teacher and management staff capability.
More students are expected to go overseas in
exchange and grant programs with overseas schools
and education institutions./.
Thank you!