Addressing concerns over university education spending, Son explained that as public universities gain greater autonomy, the Ministry of Finance has scaled back recurrent state funding. “Over the past decade, as autonomy has increased, the State's support has steadily declined”, he noted
The year 2024 was transformative for Vietnam's education sector, marked by an intense workload, a multitude of tasks, and groundbreaking achievements that have set the stage for a new development era, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son told the press.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung, and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan provided insights into their respective sectors and addressed pressing concerns raised by lawmakers at the 15th National Assembly’s eighth session in Hanoi on November 4.
Ahead of the 2024-2025 academic year, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son shared insights on key focus areas for the sector in the coming school year.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son on March 22 asked Da Nang to ensure good preparations of infrastructure and other conditions serving the 13th ASEAN School Games (ASG-13) that the central city will host from May 31 to June 9.
Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son on October 11 highly valued Japan’s educational development, and suggested the country share its experience with Vietnam to step up bilateral cooperation in this field.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son has affirmed that teachers are the most valuable asset of the education-training sector, and pledged to make the utmost effort to develop the teacher workforce.
The Ministries of Education and Training, and Home Affairs have agreed to propose increasing the preferential allowances by 10% for preschool teachers and 5% for primary school ones, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son told a meeting with teachers and education managers and staffs on August 15.
The National Assembly Standing Committee offered opinions on a report on the results of thematic supervision on the implementation of the NA’s Resolutions on the renewal of school curricula and textbooks, during its 25th meeting in Hanoi on August 14.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said 2023 continues to be a year full of challenges for the sector with numerous key tasks, such as innovating education. Son made the remark while granting an interview to the press on the occasion of the New Year.
Many projects on education and training funded by the World Bank (WB) have reported good results, affirmed Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son during his recent working session with Cristian Aedo, Practice Manager for the Global Practice Education in South Asia at the WB.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son had a working session with Hungarian Minister of Culture and Innovation Janos Csak in Budapest on June 28 to discuss how to intensify education and training cooperation between the two countries in the coming time.
With the Ministry of Health's guidance, the Ministry of Education and Training and localities have made plans, scenarios, roadmaps, implemented rehearsals and prepared necessary conditions to get children back to school safely, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son told National Assembly deputies on February 25.
As COVID-19 has yet to be brought under control, great challenges are still present in the education and training sector in 2022, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son has said.
The development of a learning society is to build a special resource for the country, stated Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son during a virtual conference held on June 18 to review the implementation of the national learning society programme for the 2012-2020 period.
University and school students from more than 30 cities and provinces nationwide on May 10 entered the second week of online studying since their schools were shut on May 4 due to the serious ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks.
