Education sector longs for school reopening: minister
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son has said the biggest wish of the entire sector and himself now is that the pandemic will be brought under control soon so that students can return to school, and educational activities return to normal.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Minister of Education andTraining Nguyen Kim Son has said the biggest wish of the entire sector andhimself now is that the pandemic will be brought under control soon so that studentscan return to school, and educational activities return to normal.
Talking to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of theLunar New Year, he expressed his hope that teachers and students will exert strongerefforts to achieve the consistent goal of high educational quality whileresponding and safely adapting to the pandemic as there are numerous tasksas well as difficulties and challenges for the sector in 2022.
Amid the complex and unpredictable developments of COVID-19 in2021, the education sector fulfilled its duties and ensured teaching andlearning quality, he said, noting that it flexibly adopted different methodsand forms of teaching to cope with the pandemic’s impacts.
The minister also pointed out certain shortcomings in the sector such as the poor proactiveness in guidance for teaching and learning amid the coronavirusoutbreaks, along with the shortage of equipment for online learning in manylocalities.
In 2022, the education sector will focus on such key tasksas pressing on with COVID-19 response, increasing educational quality,addressing the pandemic’s impacts on the sector, and organising the 2022 highschool graduation and university entrance exams in a way suitable to thepandemic situation, Son went on.
He added that the ministry will also boost inspecting and examiningthe compliance with legal regulations on education so as to build a healthyeducational environment while preventing and strictly dealing withwrongdoings./.
As Ho Chi Minh City has been a “green zone” for two straight weeks, local students will attend more in-person lessons while children from the preschool level to the 6th grade are expected to return to school after the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
It is time to consider school reopening in a safe manner in line with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s instructions on safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son told an online seminar on January 19.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son has underlined the necessity for school reopening, noting that the country now has sufficient conditions for the move.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has asked the People’s Committees of centrally-run cities and provinces nationwide to direct the building of specific plans and roadmaps to reopen schools before February 14.
Most localities nationwide are planning to resume in-person learning after the Lunar New Year holiday, a necessary move to avoid consequences of prolonged school shutdowns which would affect an entire generation for many decades to come, many experts said.
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Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son (Photo: VNA) 
