The Ministry of Education and Training proposes to revise teaching content to suit administrative practices.

The Ministry of Education and Training has sent an official dispatch to solicit opinions on adjusting the content of the curriculum of four subjects to update changes in administrative units and two-level government.

The Ministry of Education and Training plans to revise the content of textbooks for four subjects: History and Geography from grades 4 to 9, Geography for grade 12, History for grade 10, and Civic Education for grade 10. (Source: Nhan Dan)

On August 3, the Ministry of Education and Training announced that it had issued Official Dispatch No. 4480/BGDĐT-GDPT to the Departments of Education and Training regarding comments on the revised curriculum of a number of subjects.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the 2018 General Education Program has been implemented for 5 years nationwide, and has been implemented for all grades. The Ministry has organized a review and research to develop the General Education Program to find solutions to limit the program's shortcomings, making the program more suitable to reality.

At the same time, at this time, the whole country has implemented the arrangement of administrative units, the change of administrative boundaries and the implementation of a two-level government directly affects the curriculum of four subjects: History and Geography from grades 4 to 9; Geography grade 12; History grade 10 and Civic Education grade 10.

The issuance of the circular amending and supplementing the General Education Program issued together with Circular No. 32/2018/TT-BGDDT of the Minister of Education and Training ensures that the General Education Program is updated with content suitable for changes, ensuring the scientific nature and practicality of subjects in the general education program.

The issuance of the circular amending and supplementing the General Education Program is the legal basis for considering and revising textbooks to suit reality.

The Ministry of Education and Training requests that the Departments of Education and Training organize comments on the draft revised curriculum of the above subjects before August 8.

Accordingly, for the subject of Civic Education: Amend and supplement the 10th grade program in the topics of the Political System of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

For History: Revise and supplement the Selected Study Topic in Grade 10: Vietnamese State and Law in History.

For the Geography subject in History and Geography: Amend and supplement the curriculum in grades 4, 5, 8, 9 and Geography in grade 12. The main revisions are about socio-economic regions such as: Regional boundaries; names and number of provinces and cities, area size, population of the region; economic development resources and the development and distribution of economic sectors in socio-economic regions; administrative maps; population maps, maps of sectors and economic regions in Vietnam.

For the History sub-subject in History and Geography: Amend and supplement the program in grade 7 to divide it according to European History; in grade 9 to divide it according to the Renovation process in Vietnam from 1986 to present.

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