Amendments to regulations on textbook selection in Vietnam specified in Circular 25/2020/TT-BGDDT

Amendments to regulations on textbook selection in Vietnam specified in Circular 25/2020/TT-BGDDT (Internet image)

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Resolution 686/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated September 18, 2023 on specialized supervision of implementation of Resolution 88/2014/QH13 and Resolution 51/2017/QH14 on innovation of general education programs and textbooks issued by the National Assembly Standing Committee.

Amendments to regulations on textbook selection in Vietnam specified in Circular 25/2020/TT-BGDDT 

The National Assembly Standing Committee has proposed tasks and solutions for perfecting institutions and policies to implement Resolution 88/2014/QH13 and Resolution 51/2017/QH14 on innovating general education programs and textbooks as follows:

- Review, amend, supplement, and promulgate legal documents in the List attached to Resolution 686/NQ-UBTVQH15.

- Urgently complete the issuance of detailed regulations guiding the implementation of the Education Law 2019 in 2024.

- Issue a Directive on continuing to promote fundamental and comprehensive innovation in general education.

- Urgently promulgate strategies and planning for the 2021–2030 period on the development of education, training, and other related planning.

- Amend and supplement regulations on innovating methods and content of exams and tests in the direction of assessing student quality and capacity. Promulgate a plan for the high school graduation exam according to the 2018 General Education Program in 2023.

- Amend and supplement regulations on experimentation and approval of textbooks. Issue documents guiding the printing and distribution of local educational materials.

- Amend regulations on textbook selection (Circular 25/2020/TT-BGDDT) to promote the roles and responsibilities of teachers and educational institutions in textbook selection. In the long term, it should be organized in such a way that students can use any permitted textbooks in each class period. Regulations on the supply and distribution of textbooks are mainly directed at publishing books at bookstores.

- Urgently issue guiding documents on textbook pricing methods, maximum textbook pricing, ensuring strict control of production costs, reducing intermediate costs, and reducing discount rates to a reasonable level, consistent with the nature and method of release to reduce textbook prices.

- Amend regulations on job position framework and minimum number of employees (Circular 16/2017/TT-BGDDT) and roadmap for application at general education institutions in accordance with the practical and specific situation in each region, region, and locality.

- Amend regulations on salary, allowances and incentives; Training and fostering for teachers in accordance with the policy and salary reform roadmap of the Party and State.

- Amend regulations on resource allocation, management, and state budget allocation mechanisms for general education institutions in the direction of shifting from support for public general education institutions to direct support for the poor and policy beneficiaries; from support based on the average allocation mechanism to the mechanism of the State ordering and assigning tasks to provide services based on output quality or bidding to provide services.

- The Ministry of Education and Training coordinates with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice to propose standards for teachers of art subjects and research and pilot joint training models for specialized subjects (foreign languages, information technology, and the arts).

More details can be found in Resolution 686/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated September 18, 2023

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