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 to implement 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 by 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 studying vocational education programs, ensuring the supply of high-quality human resources. Comprehensively develop Vietnamese people, meeting the requirements of socio -economic development in the new era. Maximize the potential and creativity of each individual, creating a foundation for realizing the goal of a rich people, a strong country, democracy, equality, civilization, 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 rate of attendance at the right age for primary school is 99.5%, for lower secondary school is 97%; the rate of completion of primary school at the right age is 99.7%, for lower secondary school is 99% and for upper secondary school is 95%; the rate of transition from primary school to lower secondary school is 99.5%, from lower secondary school to high school and other levels is 95%; 100% of primary school students attend 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.

Strive for 100% of middle and high school students to have access to professional career guidance and counseling services. The rate of youth aged 15-25 studying vocational education will reach 20%. Retraining and regular training for about 50% of the workforce. The rate of workers with information technology skills will reach 90%. Build and develop at least 70% of vocational schools to meet national and international standards.

Deploy the learning city model nationwide; at least 50% of districts/counties/towns/cities under provincial and central government are recognized as learning districts/cities and 35% of provinces and centrally government cities are recognized as learning provinces and 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 connection between pedagogical schools and localities in developing plans for recruitment, training, and fostering teachers at all levels to ensure sufficient quantity and balanced structure, thoroughly overcoming the surplus and shortage of preschool teachers and teachers implementing general education programs. Improve the capacity and quality of training and fostering teachers and educational managers at pedagogical schools. Innovate content and programs, diversify training methods, and foster teachers to meet the requirements of innovation in preschool and general education. Develop professional capacity and practice, focus on training ethics, professional personality, and love for the profession and profession for 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.

Promote student streaming in general education in accordance with the individual's abilities, aspirations, and specific circumstances, helping learners gain knowledge about careers and the ability to choose a career; create conditions for people of working age to be able to create their own jobs or change careers to adapt to changes in society.

Continue to direct innovation in management and organization of literacy classes suitable for target groups and improve the quality of staff and teachers participating in literacy; organize the construction and effective exploitation of open educational resources; develop a digital science repository for shared use across the sector; encourage the development and exploitation of big data, and apply 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