Bringing comprehensive development of education and training in Quang Ninh

By October 15, 2025, the entire province had completed the arrangement and merger of public preschool, general education, and continuing education facilities in the area, ensuring streamlined focal points, in accordance with local realities, and with the people's consensus. Thereby, contributing significantly to the province's breakthrough development.

With the view of building a system of public educational institutions in the province to ensure streamlined focal points, effective operation, improved education quality, and student-centeredness, Quang Ninh has determined the policy early on, focusing on leadership and drastic direction in arranging and merging public educational institutions, associated with implementing the 2-level local government model.

Following the dispatch of the Central Steering Committee, the plan of the Government Steering Committee, the Notice of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Quang Ninh province has quickly planned and developed a plan to arrange and merge public schools and educational institutions. Therein, 4 public high schools will be merged into 2 schools; 13 vocational education and continuing education centers, the provincial center for continuing education and training will be merged into the provincial center for vocational education and continuing education and 13 branches; arranging public educational institutions under the People's Committee of the commune to ensure a reduction of about 50% or more of the focal points. The arrangement will be completed before October 15, 2025.

Comrade Vu Quyet Tien, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, gave a speech at the working session with the Party Committee of the Department of Education and Training, November 4, 2025.

This is a breakthrough step, demonstrating the province's strong determination in restructuring the education network in a scientific , effective, and integrated manner to ensure suitability with the realities of each locality.

Under the drastic, close and timely direction of the province, by October 15, 2025, the entire province had completed the arrangement and merger. In particular, localities completed the arrangement of 520 schools from kindergarten to junior high school into 255 schools, reducing 265 schools; the block under the Department of Education and Training completed the arrangement of 18 educational institutions into 3 institutions according to plan.

The arrangement was implemented synchronously, methodically, quickly, and in accordance with procedures, strictly complying with the central and provincial policies on organizational arrangement, while ensuring the highest principle of improving the quality of teaching and learning, for the benefit of students, and ensuring no interruption of activities.   The streamlining is carefully researched and calculated, ensuring compliance with regulations and suitability to the actual conditions of each locality.

To create consensus among the entire political system, the province advocates only merging schools and school locations within the same commune-level administrative unit; prioritizing the model of inter-level primary and secondary schools in sparsely populated areas and areas with difficult transportation, in order to optimize resources and learning conditions. The selection and appointment of personnel for the leadership of the new schools is carried out publicly and transparently, based on each criterion for evaluating and classifying staff. This has helped the arrangement to be carried out urgently, but still received consensus, agreement, and support.

Educational activities were not disrupted after the merger of Mong Duong Kindergarten and Duong Huy Kindergarten.

Mr. Nguyen Thai Binh, Vice Chairman of Mong Duong Ward People's Committee, said: Immediately after receiving the direction of the province, the ward continuously organized meetings with officials and teachers of schools in the area, grasped their thoughts, urged the development of a project to arrange and merge, and reviewed the progress every day. At the same time, a Project Team was established to arrange and merge educational institutions in the area, ensuring streamlined focal points, effective operations, no disruption, support from officials and teachers, and consensus from the people. Thanks to that, during the implementation process, many experienced, prestigious, and accomplished managers of educational institutions in the area proactively gave up their positions, creating conditions for young managers to have the opportunity to promote their capacity. The ward has completed the merger of 6 schools into 3 schools, maintaining 12 school locations, reducing 3 principal positions, streamlining management points, and keeping the students' study locations intact, without affecting the organization of educational service provision activities to serve the needs of the people. Policies and regimes for children, students and teachers continue to be fully guaranteed.

After the reorganization, educational institutions quickly stabilized their organization and operations, took place normally, without disruption or interruption, promoting positive effects, ensuring streamlining and improving the quality of education.   The merger has helped streamline the apparatus, effectively utilize the team of teachers and managers, and at the same time create conditions to concentrate resources on investing in modern facilities and teaching equipment. The team of teachers has a more extensive environment for training and exchanging expertise, creating motivation to be creative in teaching methods.

Leaders of Bai Chay ward presented decisions and flowers to congratulate the Board of Directors of Bai Chay Secondary School.

The quick completion of the arrangement and merger of schools and classes is not only a breakthrough step in streamlining the organizational apparatus, improving the effectiveness of school administration, and making efforts to narrow the educational gap, but also contributes to solving problems.   Internal issues of the industry. Reorganizing schools reduces the management apparatus, but increases the number of people directly teaching, effectively uses the existing staff, and overcomes the shortage of teachers.

Teacher Luu Thi Huyen, Principal of Bai Chay Secondary School, said: Bai Chay Secondary School was established from the merger of Bai Chay Secondary School, the Secondary School of Bai Chay 2 Primary and Secondary School and Hung Thang Primary and Secondary School. The school currently maintains a management staff including a Principal and 2 Vice Principals with 3,039 teachers at 4 campuses. The arrangement and merger have helped the school solve the problem of teacher shortage. Right from the first days of operation, the school's Board of Directors has proactively reviewed and rearranged the team, arranged reasonable personnel between the 4 campuses, ensured the promotion of professional strengths, organized conferences for staff, employees, and stabilized the learning routine for students.

The school's facilities are used effectively, renovated synchronously, meeting the requirements of teaching and learning in new conditions. Educational, professional and extracurricular activities are organized enthusiastically, creatively and diversely. Notably, it receives high consensus from parents, especially students, who are the beneficiaries of the best quality education.

A lesson between teachers and students of Ba Che Primary School.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Van Anh (Yet Kieu 6 area, Hong Gai ward), a parent of a student, expressed: Kim Dong Secondary School and Le Van Tam Secondary School merged to become Le Van Tam Secondary School. After the merger, the children still study stably, without disruption or interruption. The children at which school still study at that school. The school has a long history of teaching and learning achievements, parents believe that the quality of education is increasingly improved; the children enjoy the best conditions in terms of teaching methods, facilities, and extracurricular activities. Parents fully support, agree, and agree with this correct policy.

The results achieved are clear evidence of the province's strong leadership, the joint efforts and unanimity of the entire political system, and above all, the consensus, dedication and responsibility of the team of cadres, managers and teachers.

Not only streamlining the apparatus, improving management efficiency, creating a solid foundation for fundamental and comprehensive educational innovation, on the basis of the achieved results, the province continues to devote a significant amount of resources to investing in synchronous, spacious and modern school facilities in the province, especially in remote, isolated and border areas. The province is completing investment procedures, striving to start construction of boarding schools in 5 land border communes: Luc Hon, Binh Lieu, Quang Duc, Duong Hoa, Hoanh Mo in December 2025; total investment capital is about 1,000 billion VND.

At the working session with the Party Committee of the Department of Education and Training (November 4, 2025), Comrade Vu Quyet Tien, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, acknowledged and commended the provincial Department of Education and Training for promptly completing the arrangement and merger of educational institutions, creating an important "push" for development breakthroughs. He also directed the strategy to bring Quang Ninh Education and Training into the group of 10 leading provinces and cities nationwide in terms of education quality, concretizing Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW (August 22, 2025) of the Politburo "On breakthroughs in education and training development", Resolution of the 16th Congress of the Provincial Party Committee.

He requested the Party Committee of the Department of Education and Training to strengthen its comprehensive leadership role; ensure close leadership in both professional and political and ideological work; quickly stabilize the team and do a good job of ideological work for cadres and teachers. The Department of Education and Training continues to consolidate facilities and school network; improve the quality of teaching and learning; review and adjust the school network planning in the coming period in the direction of "standardization - modernization - openness - flexibility" ; include it in the medium-term public investment portfolio for the period 2026-2030 and implement key projects , especially boarding schools in border communes , islands, and difficult areas; continue to develop high-quality school models, boarding schools in difficult areas, borders, and islands, encourage socialization in the field of education; narrow the gap in education quality between regions and levels.

Ensure the recruitment of enough teachers according to the assigned quota, prioritizing the subjects that are lacking , especially in difficult areas, borders, and islands ; advise on policies to attract and reward teachers in particularly difficult areas; build a team of teachers and managers with good qualities, capacity, solid expertise, prestige, responsibility, mastery of digital technology and modern teaching methods . At the same time, cooperate with universities and colleges in and outside the province to train and foster a team of teachers and educational managers, boldly advise on attracting high-quality staff to the locality.

Together with the health sector, the provincial education and training sector must take the lead in comprehensive digital transformation; have specific criteria to build smart schools , build a provincial education database synchronized with the province's data platform , improve digital capacity for teachers and managers, promote STEM education, programming, and digital skills for students.

To develop comprehensive education quality and international integration, he requested to continue improving comprehensive education quality ; focus on personality education, ethics, life skills, fostering cultural values ​​and people of Quang Ninh; resolutely prevent and combat school violence, ensure traffic safety; effectively implement the project "English is the second language" ; coordinate with departments and branches to advise the Provincial People's Committee to develop Ha Long University into an innovation center , Vietnam - Korea College into a center for training high-quality human resources, expand key industries in accordance with development needs (tourism, information technology, languages ​​...). At the same time, advise the province to continue to arrange the industry's public service units, colleges and vocational schools in the area; Preside over and coordinate with relevant departments and branches to advise the Provincial Party Committee and People's Committee to ensure that the budget expenditure for education reaches at least 20% of the total budget expenditure, of which development investment expenditure reaches 5% or more ; mobilize socialized resources, public-private partnership; develop high-quality private schools, reduce the burden on the budget and staff.

Cao Quynh

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