Party committees play an important role in educational and training innovation.

On September 20, the Propaganda Department of the City Party Committee, the Party Committee of the Department of Education and Training, the Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City National University and the Party Committee of the University and College Bloc of Ho Chi Minh City organized a workshop on "The leadership role of Party committees at all levels in 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 in Ho Chi Minh City".

Member of the City Party Committee, Deputy Head of the City Party Committee's Propaganda Department Le Hong Son; Associate Professor, Dr. Mai Thanh Phong, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City National University, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Rector of the University of Technology; Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Hoang Quan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the City's Universities and Colleges, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Rector of Saigon University and Master Nguyen Huynh Long, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the City Department of Education and Training chaired the workshop.

In his report at the workshop, Associate Professor, Dr. Mai Thanh Phong said that with high political determination, in recent times, the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee has issued many leadership and direction documents to improve the efficiency and quality of the city's education and training sector. With the consensus of the entire political system, the education and training sector of Ho Chi Minh City has achieved many great achievements. The city is one of the leading localities in education and training innovation to meet the needs of social development. The budget for investment in education and training increases annually, investing in planned, spacious, and gradually modern facilities; standardizing the team of teachers and lecturers in all fields and levels; the innovation of education and training management has increasingly achieved positive results; the innovation of teaching methods, focusing on personality education, lifestyle, ethics, and ideals for students has been regularly implemented. The city has promoted the role of coordination between families, schools and society in educating the young generation; the socialization of education and training has achieved positive results. The non-public education and training system and the increasingly strong development of the university system, including Ho Chi Minh City National University, have contributed significantly to training high-quality human resources for the city and the whole country...

“These achievements are both the basis for improving the effectiveness of fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training in the City, and the driving force contributing to building a city with good quality of life, civilized, modern, and humane,” Associate Professor, Dr. Mai Thanh Phong emphasized.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Mai Thanh Phong, through the Workshop, it contributes to raising awareness, roles and responsibilities of Party committees, heads of Party committees, heads of agencies and units in the leadership and direction of effective implementation of the contents in the spirit of Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW. At the same time, this is also an opportunity for delegates to look at and evaluate more clearly the specific results in the leadership, deployment and organization of the implementation of Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW, evaluate the achieved results, new models, good practices; limitations, difficulties, obstacles and issues arising in the Party's leadership for fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training in the coming time.

The workshop is also a forum for teachers, education and training management staff, leading experts, educational institutions from preschool, general education, continuing education, higher education in the city... to exchange and share experiences in leadership, organization, and management of the sector; school administration and management; training and fostering of teachers, organizing teaching and learning and fostering excellent students at all levels; opening up many issues that need to be further discussed and exchanged.

At this workshop, the Organizing Committee received 41 presentations from Party committees at all levels, agencies, units, scientists, researchers, managers, lecturers, etc. Along with that, at the workshop, many opinions were also shared. In particular, the delegates focused on discussing and clarifying a number of issues such as: The role of Party committees at all levels in directing the implementation of fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training in Ho Chi Minh City; Political and ideological work, Party building in schools and Party development work among students, teachers, officials and civil servants; Work on building a team of officials, managers, lecturers and teachers in schools. In addition, the delegates also shared models, methods, good solutions and lessons learned in leading fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training, such as: implementing university autonomy, innovation issues in teaching and learning; Research and application of science and technology, proactive international integration; promote the relationship between the Party Committee and the school board, limitations, difficulties, obstacles and practical issues.

As a bright spot in implementing Resolution 29, Mr. Nguyen Trung Chau Tuyen, Head of the Propaganda Department of District 1 Party Committee, said: Implementing Resolution 29, the district's education and training is a dynamic unit, leading in innovation and creativity, especially in the application of information technology in teaching and management. The teaching staff basically has qualified training, the rate of students studying two sessions/day is high. Educational institutions promote a pioneering role, actively and boldly innovate with school education programs, have many breakthrough solutions contributing to fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training, strengthening facilities and modern teaching and learning equipment. Student scientific research activities are interested, promoted and go into depth.

From the university perspective, according to Professor, Dr. Huynh Van Son, Principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, with the mission of being a leading teacher training institution in the Southern region, the school identifies a great responsibility in the innovation of education and training according to Resolution 29. The school pays special attention to the work of recruiting, planning, and training a team of lecturers and managers to meet the tasks of training, scientific research and serving the community.

Concluding the workshop, Dr. Le Hong Son, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee's Propaganda Department, emphasized that to fundamentally and comprehensively innovate education and training in schools and localities, many factors are needed, focusing on academics, finance and teaching staff. Through this workshop, it helps to summarize lessons and solutions to contribute to raising awareness, roles and responsibilities of Party committees, heads of Party committees, heads of agencies and units in the work of leadership, direction and improving the effectiveness of implementing Resolution 29 in conjunction with promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle. The Workshop Organizing Committee received the opinions of the delegates and will synthesize them to advise the City's leaders to promptly have leadership and direction for this work in the coming time./.

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