Developing education and training, improving the quality of human resources in ethnic minority areas of Tra Vinh province

Focus on investing ineducation and training

According to the Ethnic Minorities Committee of Tra Vinh province, in recent times, departments, branches and sectors in Tra Vinh province have always paid attention to investing in developing education and training for ethnic minorities.

Pali Khmer Intermediate School (Ward 8, Tra Vinh City) - the first school in the Mekong Delta region to train Khmer students and monks in two systems: High school for continuing education and Bali Khmer Intermediate School. Photo: Huynh Xay

In 2024 alone, the plan is to continue investing in renovating and upgrading 8 ethnic boarding schools. Of which, 7 schools at the district level (concentrated in Tra Cu, Tieu Can, Cau Ngang, Duyen Hai, Chau Thanh, Cau Ke districts) and 1 school at the provincial level; purchasing digital transformation equipment; training teachers and managers of ethnic boarding schools; organizing the mobilization of illiterate people to attend classes; fostering ethnic knowledge; training pre-university, university and postgraduate students to meet the human resource needs of ethnic minority areas.

Support vocational training at elementary level and under 3 months; train and foster teachers, managers, and vocational trainers in Cau Ke, Duyen Hai, Tieu Can, Tra Cu districts and Tra Vinh city; organize 68 capacity building classes for the community and cadres to implement the National Target Program 1719.

The above tasks are implemented from the capital of the National Target Program for Socio -Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas (National Target Program 1719). As of the end of August, 27.6 billion VND out of a total of 57.4 billion VND from the central budget had been disbursed.

According to the reporter's investigation, the 8 ethnic boarding schools in Tra Vinh province that are being invested in renovation and upgrading are training at the middle and high school levels, with about 3,000 students studying each year.

Tra Vinh province has Pali Khmer Intermediate School (Ward 8) - the first school in the Mekong Delta region to train Khmer students and monks in two systems: High school continuing education system and Bali Khmer Intermediate School.

Tra Vinh is also the only province in the country that offers Khmer language, culture, and arts training at the university level at Tra Vinh University. In addition, Tra Vinh province also has 143 Khmer Theravada Buddhist pagodas that teach Khmer, with more than 3,000 monks and students studying.

Not stopping there, to develop education and training to create human resources for ethnic minority areas, many schools in Tra Vinh province have organized Khmer language teaching.

For students in hamlets and communes with special difficulties (according to Decree No. 116/2016/ND-CP), there is also a policy of tuition exemption and reduction. Therefore, they can study with peace of mind and the number of Khmer ethnic students dropping out of school has decreased over the years. Currently, most hamlets in ethnic minority areas have schools to meet the learning needs of students.

Contribute to improving the quality of human resources in ethnic minority areas

In addition to investing in facilities, to improve the quality of teaching and learning, ethnic minority boarding schools in the province constantly innovate their programs and teaching methods, and regularly provide professional training for their teaching staff. In addition to teaching literacy, they also focus more on moral education, life skills training, and building good personalities for students.

The network of schools, facilities, and teaching equipment are always invested in and built by Tra Vinh province. The quality of education and training for the Khmer people is given attention and is increasingly improved. Photo: Huynh Xay

For students, in addition to performing learning tasks in class, they also spend time researching, self-studying at home or at school for boarding students, participating in all extracurricular activities, in order to equip students with necessary life skills. Therefore, the quality of education is gradually improved, every year the rate of students moving up to the next grade, being considered for graduation recognition is quite high.

It is known that in recent times, Khmer cadres and teachers in the education and training sector of Tra Vinh province have been increasingly standardized. By 2023, the total number of cadres, civil servants, employees and workers who are Khmer ethnic is 3,287/14,270 people, accounting for 23.03%. Of which, there are 111 managers at all levels, 290 employees, and 2,873 classroom teachers.

According to the Ethnic Minorities Committee of Tra Vinh province, with the attention and support of the Party committees and authorities at all levels in the province, the network of schools, facilities, and teaching equipment has always been invested in and built, the quality of education and training for the Khmer ethnic people has been paid attention to and increasingly improved. Since then, ethnic minority students have been assured to pursue their studies, constantly improving their qualifications,

In addition to contributing to training and improving the intellectual level of the Khmer ethnic minority (from 2016 to May 2024, Tra Vinh province assigned work to 118/139 students for training under the selection system), serving the socio-economic development requirements of the locality, teaching and learning Khmer also serves and contributes to preserving and promoting the language and writing of ethnic people.

According to the report on the implementation results of the National Target Program 1719 of the Ethnic Minorities Committee of Tra Vinh province in the first 6 months of the year, the rate of 5-year-old kindergarten students attending school reached 92%, primary school reached 100%, middle school reached 98.8%, high school reached 87.5%; the rate of people aged 15 and over who can read and write fluently in Mandarin reached 93.96%; school facilities continued to receive investment attention, the whole province had 8,057 classrooms and functional rooms, the rate of solid classrooms accounted for 94.61%, semi-permanent classrooms accounted for 5.39%, there were no more temporary classrooms.

Source: https://danviet.vn/phat-trien-giao-duc-va-dao-tao-nang-cao-chat-luong-nguon-nhan-luc-vung-dong-bao-dan-toc-thieu-so-tinh-tra-vinh-20240917111211456.htm