Maintain the top national policy position

Yesterday (September 5), 26 million students officially started the new school year. This is considered a special school year, because it has been 80 years since the establishment of the Ministry of National Education (now the Ministry of Education and Training).

Primary school students in Hanoi on the opening day - Photo: NAM TRAN

Immediately after the success of the August Revolution, the Ministry of National Education was established with the mission of building an education system of the people, by the people and for the people. At that time, 95% of our people were illiterate.

To date, the country has completed universal education from 5-year-old kindergarten to junior high school. Not only that, in recent years, Vietnam has been among the top 10 countries with students achieving the best results in international Olympic competitions.

Not to mention the school facilities, from kindergarten to high school, vocational college, college, university... are increasingly developing in both quantity and quality.

Besides, a series of progressive and humane policies, demonstrating the special attention of our Party and State to education, will also be implemented from the 2025-2026 school year.

All public preschool and primary school students nationwide are exempt from tuition fees (non-public school students are partially subsidized for tuition fees).

Some localities also have policies to support students with lunch at school when studying two sessions a day. Ensuring equal access to education, raising the intellectual level of the people, not leaving any child behind.

The Politburo also concluded on the investment policy to build inter-level boarding schools in 248 land border communes.

The Law on Teachers was passed and took effect from January 1, 2026, identifying teachers as the group with the highest salary in the administrative career salary scale...

However, today's world has changed profoundly. In the context of globalization, science and technology and digital transformation developing strongly as today, the problem for the education sector is not "eradicating illiteracy" as it was 80 years ago.

The mission of the education sector is to train high-quality human resources, to train global citizens. These are citizens who are good at professional skills, good at foreign languages, good at technology, good at soft skills but still have a strong national cultural identity.

Therefore, spacious and modern classrooms are not enough, they must be smart and happy schools; teachers must not teach in a one-way way but must organize activities for students to discover, apply knowledge, develop thinking and creativity; training generations of citizens who integrate well but do not dissolve is a big challenge for the country's education sector.

Perhaps that is why in his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2025-2026 school year, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son emphasized: "The road ahead is very long, the burden on the shoulders is very heavy.

I hope all teachers, education staff and students: we have been creative - need to be more creative, we have made efforts - need to make more efforts, act faster and stronger to overcome our own limits, take advantage of every opportunity and condition, and complete the new glorious mission."

The special school year has begun, and the whole society is looking forward to breakthrough innovations in the education sector. As General Secretary To Lam expects: "Education and training must maintain its top national policy position, becoming a key driving force for national development."

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HOANG HUONG

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/giu-vung-vi-tri-quoc-sach-hang-dau-20250906084043512.htm