This is the content stated in Conclusion No. 91-KL/TW of the Politburo (Conclusion No. 91) on continuing to implement Resolution 29-NQ/TW in 2013 "On fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training, meeting the requirements of industrialization and modernization in the conditions of a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration" signed by Standing member of the Secretariat Luong Cuong on August 12.

In Conclusion No. 91, the Politburo emphasized in Section 6: Developing, improving the quality, and standardizing the team of teachers andeducational managers at all levels; ensuring a sufficient number of teachers according to prescribed norms; researching mechanisms and policies for mobilizing and rotating teachers between localities to fundamentally resolve the situation of local teacher surplus and shortage and improve the quality of education for disadvantaged areas.

Innovate state management of teachers in a synchronous manner, associated with professional and quality management. Strongly innovate mechanisms and policies for discovering, recruiting, using, training, rewarding and promoting talents working in the education sector; implement the policy that teachers' salaries are given the highest priority in the administrative and career salary scale system and have additional allowances depending on the nature of the work, by region, etc.

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The Politburo proposed to innovate policies on nurturing and promoting talents in the education sector. Illustration photo: Nam Khanh

The conclusion also requires continuing to innovate management mechanisms, ensuring adequate facilities and financial resources for education and training development; ensuring that the state budget for education and training accounts for at least 20% of the total state budget expenditure as set out in Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW.

At the same time, the Politburo requested timely adjustments to increase the level of state budget expenditure on education and training in line with economic growth. The State ensures funding for compulsory education, universal education, tuition exemption for 5-year-old preschool children and carries out key tasks in the education sector; prioritizes investment in education and training in ethnic minority, mountainous, border and island areas.

Focus on investing in modernizing vocational education, university education and enhancing scientific research potential in educational and training institutions; Continue to perfect the national education system in an open, flexible, and interconnected direction, promoting a learning society and lifelong learning; promote international integration in education and training to meet the requirements of improving the quality of human resources to serve the country's development in the new period...

Important achievements of education and training over the past 10 years

After 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW, dated November 4, 2013 of the 11th Party Central Committee "On fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training, meeting the requirements of industrialization and modernization in the conditions of a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration", our country's education and training have achieved many important results.

The whole country has completed universal preschool education for 5-year-old children; gradually improved the quality of universal primary and secondary education; general education has shifted positively from mainly equipping knowledge to comprehensively developing learners' qualities and capacities; the quality of mass and spearhead general education has increasingly improved.

Continuing education has developed in a variety of content and forms; movements to compete in learning, encourage learning, encourage talents, and build a learning society have been implemented with attention. Vocational education has developed strongly in quantity and focused on improving quality step by step to better meet the needs of the labor market.

Continuing innovation in higher education, combined with increased autonomy, has created new momentum and strong changes in quality and efficiency in human resource training and scientific research; the number of training programs accredited and published in international scientific publications has increased sharply, and a number of higher education institutions and training groups have been ranked highly in the region and the world.

Teaching and learning methods, testing, and assessment of educational quality have been innovated in a modern direction, becoming increasingly more practical and effective. The team of teachers and educational managers has been standardized, gradually ensuring quantity. Facilities and teaching equipment have been improved, initially meeting the requirements of educational and training innovation...

Investing in education and training is investing in development.

Conclusion No. 91 of the Politburo emphasized that, in order to promote the achievements, continue to promote fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training to meet the requirements of national development in the new period..., Party committees at all levels, authorities, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations continue to thoroughly grasp and seriously and effectively implement the viewpoints, goals, tasks and solutions stated in Resolution 29-NQ/TW, Resolution of the 13th National Congress and other resolutions of the Party on education and training; at the same time, focus on performing the tasks well.

Specifically, Party committees, Party organizations, authorities, local and unit leaders continue to raise awareness, strengthen leadership responsibility, thoroughly direct and fully and deeply implement the viewpoint that education and training is the "top national policy", the cause of the Party, the State and the entire people; ensure the leading role of the State, while attracting the active participation of society in developing the cause of education and training; investment in education and training is investment for development, given priority in socio-economic development programs and plans.

Conclusion No. 91 mentions focusing on reviewing, amending, supplementing, and perfecting mechanisms, policies, and laws on education and training, removing bottlenecks, including the need to soon develop the Law on Teachers, the Law on Lifelong Learning, education development strategies, and regulations on innovation in education and training management, and school governance in a scientific, modern, synchronous, and interconnected direction, in line with the international integration process and practices in our country.

Improve the effectiveness of state management of education and training; promote decentralization and delegation of power; strengthen the role of state management agencies of education and training in deciding on staffing, organizational structure, policies for teachers and allocating state budget to the education sector.

The Politburo requested to increase autonomy, enhance accountability, promote democracy in educational and training institutions; perfect policies and mechanisms of autonomy for higher education institutions in line with the general trend of the world...

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