Proposing more than 580,000 billion VND for the national target program on education and training

VTV.vn - According to the Government's proposal, the National Target Program on Modernizing and Improving the Quality of Education and Training for the 2026-2035 period is expected to mobilize more than VND580,000 billion.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man speaks. (Photo: VNA)

Chaired by National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, this evening (November 17), the National Assembly Standing Committee continued its 51st session, giving opinions on the investment policy for the National Target Program on Modernization and Improvement of Education and Training Quality for the 2026-2035 period.

The National Assembly Standing Committee suggested that the drafting agency should carefully study and calculate the conditions to ensure the realization of the goal that by 2030, 30% of preschool and general education institutions will have English as a second language and increase to 100% by 2035.

Regarding the total resources mobilized to implement the Program for the entire 10-year period from 2026-2035, which is about over VND 580,000 billion according to the Government's proposal, the National Assembly Standing Committee proposed that it is necessary to arrange capital close to the target and disbursement capacity, ensuring feasibility and efficiency; consider mobilizing external capital sources to reduce the budget burden, and promote investment in the form of public-private partnerships.

"After this meeting, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance need to clarify the capital sources for the two periods 2026-2030 and 2031-2035, and establish an attractive mechanism to encourage businesses, organizations and individuals to invest in education. This is important. There is not much budget, how can we have many foreign schools invest here so that domestic students do not have to go abroad? If the quality is good, our children will save a lot of money studying here," National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man suggested.

Also this evening, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the investment policy of the National Target Program on Health Care, Population and Development for the 2026-2035 period; gave opinions on the draft Law on Artificial Intelligence and the Government's Submission on the plan to arrange the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period for public investment projects using foreign capital from the central budget disbursed from 2019 and earlier but not yet accounted for in the state budget.

Source: https://vtv.vn/de-xuat-hon-580000-ty-dong-cho-chuong-trinh-muc-tieu-quoc-gia-ve-giao-duc-va-dao-tao-100251117205939393.htm