Deploying the education development plan of the 2017-2018 school year

On May 11, Tien Giang provincial People's Committee held a conference to deploy the education development plan of the 2017-2018 school year. Deputy Chairman of Tien Giang provincial People's Committee Tran Thanh Duc chaired the conference.

In the 2016-2017 school year, the province mobilized 83.4% of preschool children and 108% of kindergarten, the primary education level reached 98.9%, the secondary school level reached 98.5% with 101,976 students. Particularly for high school, the whole province had 41,157 high school students, increasing 2,900 students in comparision with the school year 2015-2016. the provincial Education and Training sector has 19,464 teachers, administrators and staff, including 15,860 teachers in class. At present, there are 193 national standard schools.

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In the school year 2017-2018, the goal of mobilizing preschool from 3 to 5 years old reaches 79% and 100% for 5-year-old children to attend kindergarten, 100% primary school, 98% for secondary school and 63% for high school, etc… In addition, the education sector of Tien Giang will strengthen the development of the network school, classrooms, facilities to meet the needs of teaching and learning, to further improve the quality of teaching and learning 2 sessions per day, to learn english in elementary school and seriously take on extra teaching and learning according to the regulation of Ministry of Education and Training and the regulation of Tien Giang provincial People's Committee, etc…

Deputy Chairman of Tien Giang provincial People’s Committee Tran Thanh Duc requested the provincial Education and Training sector to have specific solutions to implement the project of “Investment facility for the national standard school 2017-2020 period”; to strengthen the quality assurance of education; to standardize the staff of managers and teachers at all levels as well as to improve the capacity of teachers, especially teachers of foreign language; to have policy to attract technical teachers; to develop training profession at intermediate schools to meet social demand.

(According to thtg.vn-Translated by Huu Tam)