A conference was held in January 16 to review the performance of the educational sector in the 12 Mekong Delta localities during the first semester of the 2014-2015 academic year.
Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga took note of the progress in universalizing pre-school education for five-year-old children in the region, and urged local authorities to try and encourage all economic sectors to invest in this area.
He said the Ministry of Education and Training (MET) will invest more in educational infrastructure in the region.
According to reports at the conference, the region currently has more than 6,600 schools with over 3.2 million students and 2,200 teachers and school staff.
The school network has been expanded over recent years, helping encourage children to attend schools, reduce the rate of dropout as well as facilitating new-style teaching.
The Education and Training Departments have well performed their consulting role in helping local authorities issue several policies including incentives for kindergarten teachers working in disadvantaged areas and measures to attract postgraduates to work in the localities.
Leaders of provincial Departments in the region asked the education ministry and the Government to grant more funds to the programme on preschool education universalisation among five-year-olds.
The departments also urged the MET to soon issue the national regulations on the 2015 high school graduation and university entrance exams.-VNA
Đăng ký: VietNam News
