The Politburo of Vietnam requests ensuring a minimum of 20% of the budget expenditure for education and training

The Politburo of Vietnam requests ensuring a minimum of 20% of the budget expenditure for education and training

In Section 7 of Conclusion 91-KL/TW in 2024, the Politburo has the following requirements:

7. Continue to innovate management mechanisms, ensuring adequate physical and financial resources for the development of education and training; ensuring that the state budget allocates at least 20% of the total state budget expenditure for education and training as stipulated in Resolution 29-NQ/TW. Concurrently, promptly adjust and increase the allocation of the state budget for education and training in accordance with economic growth. The state will ensure funding for compulsory education, universal education, free tuition for 5-year-old preschool children, and implement key tasks in the field of education; prioritize investment in education and training for ethnic minority areas, mountainous regions, border areas, and islands. Implement a program to solidify school infrastructure, eliminate temporary classrooms, construct national standard schools, and ensure sufficient physical facilities and minimum teaching equipment, especially in rural, ethnic minority, mountainous, border, and island areas, striving to achieve 100% solidified classrooms by 2030; develop and submit for approval a public investment program to modernize higher education and vocational education in line with the master plan for the network of higher education, pedagogy, and vocational education institutions for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050 to create breakthroughs in the development of high-quality human resources.

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The Politburo requires ensuring that the state budget allocates at least 20% of the total state budget expenditure for education and training as stipulated in Resolution 29.

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Does the Politburo of Vietnam require the implementation of a unified national general education program and private investment in textbook compilation?

Based on Section 3 of Conclusion 91-KL/TW in 2024, the Politburo has the following requirements:

3. Continue to enhance the quality of comprehensive education at all levels of preschool, general education, continuous education, and political and ideological education for students. This includes issuing and effectively implementing a new preschool education program with advanced content and methods suitable to practical conditions; gradually implementing universal preschool education for children aged 3 and 4; strictly managing non-public preschool education institutions, especially independent daycare groups, classes, and preschools. Continue to improve and effectively implement the new general education program, focusing on strongly innovating teaching and learning methods to promote the activeness, proactiveness, and creativity of both teachers and learners; develop the comprehensive capacity and qualities of learners. Implement a unified national general education program, with each subject having one or a few textbooks and socializing the compilation of textbooks; implement 9-year compulsory education. Develop diverse forms of continuous education content and forms to meet the lifelong learning needs of the people. Reduce illiteracy rates in especially difficult areas and ethnic minority areas.

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The Politburo requires focusing on effectively implementing tasks: implementing a unified national general education program and private investment in textbook compilation; furthermore, each subject may have one or a few textbooks.

Some limitations and inadequacies in educational innovation in Vietnam according to Resolution 29 in the Politburo's Conclusion

Resolution 29-NQ/TW in 2013 is a Resolution on fundamental, comprehensive innovation in education and training to meet the requirements of industrialization and modernization within the context of a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration, issued by the Central Committee (Resolution 29).

According to the Conclusion 91-KL/TW in 2024 of the Politburo, after 10 years of implementing Resolution 29, some limitations and inadequacies are as follows:

The institutionalization of certain contents of Resolution 29 into policies and laws to serve educational and training innovation and the planning of the network of higher education institutions have been slow to be issued; the implementation of autonomy in educational institutions, the deployment of new general education programs and textbooks still face many difficulties; the linkage between educational levels, educational degrees, and student streaming after lower secondary education remains inadequate.

Vocational education and higher education are not closely linked to the labor market and do not meet the human resource requirements for new economic sectors and high technology; the foreign language proficiency, including English, of the trained workforce is still low, not meeting the requirements of international integration.

Postgraduate study rates, especially in basic sciences, engineering, and technology, are still low. The structure and number of teaching staff in many localities are unreasonable, and the quality is not uniform.

Financial policies and mechanisms for education are still inadequate; the proportion of unsolidified classrooms is still high, and the physical facilities and teaching equipment are still lacking, especially in mountainous areas, industrial zones, and densely populated areas.

Some targets set by Resolution 29 have not been achieved; communication efforts on educational and training innovation, socializing education, and the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of education and training still have limitations and have not attracted many non-state resources for educational investment...