The Politburo requested a unified set of textbooks nationwide.

The Politburo requested a review of the implementation of the general education program; ensuring the provision of a unified set of textbooks nationwide, and by 2030, free textbooks for all students.

On August 22, General Secretary To Lam signed and issued Resolution 71 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in education and training development.

Among the tasks and solutions, the Politburo requested to review and evaluate the implementation of the General Education Program; ensure the provision of a unified set of textbooks nationwide, and strive to provide free textbooks to all students by 2030.

The Politburo requires a unified set of textbooks nationwide and by 2030, free textbooks for all students.

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At the same time, focus on ideological education, tradition, ethics, physical education, aesthetics, career education, soft skills; increase the duration of science, technology, information technology, and art subjects; research and incorporate knowledge about digital capacity and artificial intelligence into the general education program.

The Politburo also emphasized the need to strongly shift to modern, active educational methods, promote self-study, creative experience, and guide students to develop independent thinking and problem-solving skills; continue to innovate testing and assessment methods, ensure honest assessment of learning and teaching outcomes; and synchronously implement solutions to overcome the widespread situation of extra teaching and learning.

The Politburo also requested comprehensive digital transformation, popularization and strong application of digital technology and artificial intelligence in education and training. Accordingly, building smart education platforms, smart textbooks and curricula; promoting the application of science, technology and artificial intelligence in innovating teaching and learning methods, testing and evaluation.

Increase teacher allowance to at least 70%

The Politburo also requested strong institutional innovation, creating unique and outstanding mechanisms and policies for education and training development.

In particular, the Politburo requested to reduce the number of management agencies for educational institutions, ensure the principle of linking professional management responsibilities with human resource and financial management, strengthen training and fostering of educational management staff in accordance with the 2-level local government model. Build an open and interconnected education system, promote lifelong learning and build a learning society.

There are special and outstanding preferential policies for teachers; increase vocational allowances for preschool and general education institutions to at least 70% for teachers, at least 30% for staff, and 100% for teachers in particularly difficult areas, border areas, islands, and ethnic minority areas.

Ensure full and comprehensive autonomy for higher education institutions and vocational education institutions regardless of the level of financial autonomy. Complete regulations on staffing, standards, conditions, recruitment and appointment processes for professors, associate professors and other lecturer positions in accordance with international practices and Vietnamese reality.

On that basis, universities and vocational education institutions are assigned to decide and implement in accordance with their school's conditions, decide on recruitment, hiring of lecturers, appointment of leadership and management positions for talented people from abroad.

The Politburo also requested fundamental reform of financial mechanisms and policies and investment in education and training. State budget expenditure for education and training must reach at least 20% of total state budget expenditure, of which investment expenditure must reach at least 5% of total state budget expenditure and expenditure for higher education must reach at least 3% of total state budget expenditure.

The Politburo agreed on the policy of building and implementing a new National Target Program on modernization and improving the quality of education and training for the 2026-2035 period; prioritizing investment in higher education.

The Politburo also requested the development of a project to innovate university admissions in the direction of properly assessing learners' abilities, ensuring unified control of input standards of training majors and training institutions, and strictly controlling output quality.

At the same time, strengthen quality management associated with appropriate support policies for doctoral training, training in pedagogy, health, law and key fields; strictly regulate doctoral studies for officials and civil servants.

By 2045, Vietnam's education will be in the world's top 20.

Resolution 71 of the Politburo sets the goal of building a network of basic schools that meet the learning needs of students of all subjects and regions by 2030; at least 80% of general schools will meet national standards.

Complete universal preschool education for children aged 3 to 5 and compulsory education through lower secondary school. At least 85% of people of the right age complete upper secondary school or equivalent, with no province or city achieving less than 60%.

Building and training human resources, especially high-quality human resources, to meet the requirements of Vietnam becoming a developing country with modern industry and high average income. The proportion of people in the age group studying at post-secondary levels reaches 50%. The proportion of workers with college or university degrees or higher reaches 24%.

Strive for at least 8 higher education institutions to be in the top 200 universities in Asia, and at least 1 higher education institution to be in the top 100 universities in the world in a number of fields according to prestigious international rankings.

By 2035, strive to have at least 2 higher education institutions in the top 100 universities in the world in a number of fields according to prestigious international rankings.

Resolution 71 of the Politburo also stated that by 2045, Vietnam will have a modern, equitable and high-quality national education system, ranked among the top 20 countries in the world. Strive for at least 5 higher education institutions to be among the top 100 universities in the world in a number of fields according to prestigious international rankings.

See the full text of Resolution 71 dated August 22 of the Politburo below:

Resolution 71 of the Politburo

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