Issue a plan on universal education and promote student streaming.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long signed Decision No. 525/QD-TTg promulgating the Plan for implementing Directive No. 29-CT/TW dated January 5, 2024 of the Politburo on universal education, compulsory education, adult literacy, and promoting student streaming in general education until 2030.

The plan aims to ensure that all people have fair and equal opportunities to access education in an open, diverse, flexible, interconnected, and modern education system. All citizens of the prescribed age are required to study to achieve the minimum level of education as prescribed by law and the State guarantees the conditions to do so. Complete basic literacy and move towards functional literacy for adults, especially ethnic minorities, women, and workers in disadvantaged areas.

Increase the proportion of students enrolled in vocational education programs, ensuring the supply of high-quality human resources. Develop the Vietnamese people comprehensively, meeting the requirements of socio -economic development in the new era. Maximize the potential and creativity of each individual, creating a foundation for achieving the goal of a prosperous people, a strong nation, democracy, fairness, civilization, and a prosperous and happy country.

Specifically, for preschool education, continue to maintain, consolidate and improve the quality of universal preschool education for 5-year-old children; strive to complete universal preschool education for preschool children. The rate of mobilizing children to go to school reaches 38% of nursery-age children and 97% of preschool-age children; strive to have 99.5% of preschool children attend school 2 sessions/day; strive to have the rate of non-public and private preschools reach 30%, the number of children studying at private and private preschools reach 35%...

For general education, firmly maintain the results of universal primary and secondary education; 75% of provinces and centrally run cities meet the standards of universal primary education level 3; 40% of provinces and centrally run cities meet the standards of universal secondary education level 3; 60% of provinces and centrally run cities meet the standards of universal secondary education level 2.

The enrollment rate for primary school at the appropriate age reached 99.5%, and for lower secondary school reached 97%; the completion rate for primary school at the appropriate age reached 99.7%, for lower secondary school reached 99%, and for upper secondary school reached 95%; the promotion rate from primary to lower secondary school reached 99.5%, and from lower secondary to upper secondary school and other levels reached 95%; 100% of primary school students attend school for two sessions per day.

Strive for 100% of general education teachers to meet the standard qualifications trained according to the provisions of the Law on Education; strive for the number of private general education institutions to reach 5% and the number of students studying at private general education institutions to reach 5.5%.

Strive for the rate of solid classrooms at primary, secondary and high schools to reach 100%; 70% of primary schools, 75% of secondary schools and 55% of high schools to meet national standards.

With vocational education, continuing education, and illiteracy eradication for 0.5% of illiterate adults, including illiteracy eradication for 0.4% of illiterate adults aged 15 to 60.

Strive for the literacy rate of people aged 15-60 to reach 99.1% at level 1, of which the literacy rate of people aged 15-60 in extremely disadvantaged areas and ethnic minority areas will reach 98.8%. 90% of provinces will meet the literacy standard of level 2.

The goal is to ensure 100% of junior and senior high school students have access to professional career guidance and counseling services. The target is for 20% of young people aged 15-25 to receive vocational education. Approximately 50% of the workforce will receive retraining and ongoing training. The target for the workforce to possess information technology skills is 90%. At least 70% of vocational schools will be established and developed to meet national and international standards.

Implement the learning city model nationwide; ensure that at least 50% of districts/towns/cities under provincial and centrally-administered cities are recognized as learning districts/cities, and 35% of provinces and centrally-administered cities are recognized as learning provinces/cities. Strive to have 10 administrative units participate in UNESCO's global learning city network.

Strive for 100% of provinces and centrally run cities to have centers to support the development of inclusive education.

In order to achieve the above objectives, the Plan sets out four key tasks and solutions, including: Organizing the dissemination and propaganda of Directive No. 29-CT/T; perfecting the legal system; innovating and improving quality; strengthening conditions to ensure universal education, compulsory education, eliminating illiteracy for adults and promoting student streaming in general education.

In order to innovate and improve the quality of universal education, compulsory education, adult literacy and promote student streaming in general education, the Ministry of Education and Training presides over and coordinates with ministries, branches and localities to continue directing the organization, arrangement and fundamental innovation of the network of teacher training institutions associated with local, regional and area educational human resource planning.

Focus on directing the linkage between teacher training colleges and localities in developing plans for recruiting, training, and developing teachers at all levels to ensure sufficient numbers and a balanced structure, thoroughly addressing the surplus and shortage of preschool teachers and teachers implementing the general education program. Improve the capacity and quality of training and development for teachers and educational administrators at teacher training colleges. Innovate the content and curriculum, and diversify training and development methods for teachers to meet the requirements of preschool and general education reform. Develop professional competence and practice, and emphasize the cultivation of professional ethics, character, and love for the profession among teachers.

Check, evaluate, and manage innovation in teaching content and methods, test and evaluate educational quality; promote technology application and enhance digital transformation in education.

Promoting student streaming in general education to match individual abilities, aspirations, and circumstances helps learners acquire knowledge about professions and the ability to choose careers; creating conditions for people of working age to create their own jobs or change careers to adapt to societal changes.

Continue to direct the innovation of management and organization of literacy classes to suit different target groups and improve the quality of staff and teachers involved in literacy programs; organize the development and effective exploitation of open educational resources; develop a shared digital learning resource repository for the entire sector; encourage the development and exploitation of big data and the application of artificial intelligence in the field of education and training.

* See Decision in attached file./.

Source: https://moet.gov.vn/tintuc/Pages/tin-tong-hop.aspx?ItemID=10361