The new schoolyear ceremony at a school in Hanoi |
Nearly 23 million students nationwide celebrated the official start of the 2020-2021 school-year on September 5 morning.
Due to the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, most schools held a solemn but short ceremony with the direct attendance of only a limited number of students in line with epidemic prevention measures. Other students followed the ceremony in their classrooms.
Schools in areas under social distancing held online ceremonies to ensure health and safety for students.
In the central city of Da Nang, which was the hardest affected by the latest outbreak of coronavirus, local students celebrated the start of the school-year with a virtual programme broadcast on Da Nang TV at the same time with ceremonies in other localities.
Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong sent a letter to teachers, educational workers, and students across the country on the occasion.
He praised the efforts of the education sector to weather the COVID-19 storm, saying that despite the pandemic severely disrupting classes and educational activities during the last school year, the sector actively and promptly took concerted action to effectively prevent the spread of the coronavirus in schools while completing academic plans.
Schools also made use of the occasion to guide students in measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
According to projects of the Ministry of Education and Training, in the 2020-2021 schooyear, there will be more than 5.38 million children attending kindergartens, 8.7 million students at elementary schools, over 6 million at lower junior high schools and over 2.8 million at senior high schools in the country./.
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Education and training play an essential role in the preservation, development and continuation of human civilization.
Education is one of the most important strategies for the development of the whole country and each family
In the era of scientific and technological revolution nowadays, education and training are becoming the main motive force for the developmental acceleration and considered as a determining factor for the success or failure of a nation in international competitions and for the success of each individual in his life.
Vietnamese Government and people highly appreciate the role of education and training.
Vietnamese Government, in pace with other socio-economic development strategies, has planned strategies for the national education and training development
Manpower with good knowledge is the most important resource of the modern industry. Thus, to improve the quality of human resources is the main conditions for the economic growth and social development.
Vietnam is developing the strategy for education and training development and is step by step integrating into the world
education and training strategy must be the key to narrow the gap with the developed countries, push up the industrialization and modernization, make the economy grow and improve the people's living standards
Education and training strategy must bring into play the good tradition of Vietnamese education
All educational levels have to implement education for full development of personality in terms of characteristics and capability intellect and emotion, health and sense of beauty, improving the love for the country and socialism, building the will to make the nation prosper.
Today, educational institutions across the country jubilantly entered the new 2020-2021 academic year. This is the last school year in the implementation of the current five-year plan (2016-2020), creating a premise for the entire education sector to successfully fulfil the 2021-2025 five-year plan and build new achievements to welcome the 13th National Party Congress.
The past academic year marked an important milestone in the work of improving institutions and creating a legal corridor for fundamental and comprehensive reform of education and training.
All 63 provinces and cities maintained and reached universal primary education standards, 18 of whom met the standard of universal primary education at level three.
Despite the global outbreak of COVID-19, Vietnamese students still strived to participate in international exams online, and achieved encouraging results.
For the first time, three higher education institutions of Vietnam broke into the world’s top 1,000, while seven universities made the list of leading universities in Asia
With profound attention from the Party and State, the care of the entire people, the unceasing efforts and wholeheartedness of officials and teachers and the enthusiastic learning of students, education quality at all grades and training has significantly improved
to meet the needs of socio-economic development, the reality of the past academic year has also posed many challenges, both in the short and long term, for the education sector.
the entire education sector needs to launch an emulation movement for innovation and creativity in teaching, making a breakthrough and taking quality and efficiency as a measure of educational reform
Vietnam will be a strong country in terms of education and training in the region, catching up with the world’s advanced level and participating in the international human resource training market.
Vietnam will pay greater attention to the education and training sector to create the most favourable conditions for students’ learning and training, to promote care for the cause of personnel development and facilitate a learning society, and to build a prosperous, wealthy and beautiful country.
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