Capital aims to become high-quality education center
VGP - Chairman of the Ha Noi People’s Committee Tran Sy Thanh called upon the local educational sector to comprehensively improve quality of education in order to gradually turn the capital city into a large and typical center of high-quality education and training in Viet Nam.
Chairman of the Ha Noi People’s Committee Tran Sy Thanh
Chairman of the Ha Noi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh asked the local educational sector to comprehensively improve the scale as well as quality of education so as to gradually turn the capital city into a large and typical center of high-quality education and training in Viet Nam.
He made the request while speaking at the sector's conference held on August 14 to review the 2023 - 2024 academic year and launch tasks for the next.
Thanh affirmed that the city always views the fundamental and comprehensive reform of education - training, improving the quality of human resources, and developing urbane and civilized Hanoians as particularly important tasks that are critical to its sustainable development in the future.
The mayor tasked the sector to closely follow instructions by the Ministry of Education and Training and the municipal administration to properly perform tasks for the 2024 - 2025 academic year, and continue advising the People's Committee about mechanisms and policies to further improve the quality of local education.
In the 2023 - 2024 academic year, there were 2,913 kindergartens and schools of general education across the city, increasing 39 schools from the previous academic year, with nearly 2.3 million students and nearly 130,000 teachers.
Local students' performance in this year's high school graduation examination climbed five places to the 11th from the 16th position in 2023. Up to 99.81 percent of exam takers passed the test, rising 0.25 percent from last year.
In particular, 99.12 percent of exam takers from the continuing education system graduated, 2.24 percent higher than the national average and also the highest result in the last five years.
The city ranked first nationwide with 184 students winning prizes at national contests for excellent students, up 43 from 2023.
For the next academic year, the educational sector set up 10 focal tasks, including reviewing and perfecting the development plan for the local network of education - training establishments; improving the quality of teachers and education managers; effectively implementing the pre-school, general education, and continuing education programs; and attracting and efficiently using investment resources for education./.
