PM demands textbooks, teachers be ready for new school year
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed off a dispatch on August 16, requesting actions be taken to guarantee textbooks and teachers for the coming 2023 - 2024 academic year.
Some textbooks of the new general education programme (Photo: VietnamPlus)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed off a dispatch onAugust 16, requesting actions be taken to guarantee textbooks and teachers forthe coming 2023 - 2024 academic year.
The 11th-tenure Party CentralCommittee’s Resolution No 29-NQ/TW, dated November 4, 2013 covers comprehensive reform of education and training to meet the demand of industrialisation andmodernisation in the socialist-oriented market economyand international integration. Along with this, the National Assembly’s Resolution No88/2014/QH13, dated November 28, 2014, and Resolution No 51/2017/QH14, datedNovember 21, 2017, on the same topic suggests the education sector stakeholders must actively prepare resources, withspecial attention to textbook and teacher-related issues.
However,compilation has been delayed, as has selection, printing anddistribution of textbooks. There is also a shortage of teachers in certainlocalities, difficulties in the recruitment and shortcomings in thepolicies for teachers.
Given this,to prepare for the 2023 - 2024 academic year, PM Chinh asked the Ministry of Educationand Training (MoET) to order the stakeholders engaged in compiling textbooks to review, transparently issue tendersfor textbook printing and distribution, and immediately examine all the steps to fruition.
The MoET was told to direct localities to enhance the work, while providing textbook supports for poor, disadvantagedand ethnic minority students and those in remote areas.
It wasasked to coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs to conduct teacherrecruitment, and make plans to ensure recruitment sources forlocalities.
In thedispatch, the PM also gave detailed directions on the issues to the Ministry ofHome Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and provincial-level People’s Committees./.
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Some textbooks of the new general education programme (Photo: VietnamPlus) 
