President Truong Tan Sang on September 3 reiterated that the Communist
Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the State of Vietnam consider education a
top national policy and a strategic breakthrough on the path of national
industrialisation and modernisation.
President Sang made the
statement at Bui Thi Xuan Secondary School in Da Lat city, Lam
Dong province in the Central Highlands, where he beat the drum to
kick-start the new academic year.
Addressing a ceremony,
President Sang praised the endeavours and outstanding performance of the
61-year-old school, which is seen as one of the key schools in
education reform in the city and Lam Dong province.
The school
has nurtured many scientists, managers, officers, soldiers and good
workers for the country, the President said.
He urged the
school’s students and teachers to make all-out efforts in implementing
education reform in a fundamental and comprehensive manner, which he
said, is an urgent task in the renewal period.
The State
leader asked Party committees at all levels, authorities, organisations
and the whole of society to pay more attention to and build the best
education environment for children.
The same day, To Huy Rua,
Politburo member, Secretary of CPV Central Committee and Head of the
CPVCC’s Commission for Organisation, joined students at Quang Xuong I
Secondary School in Quang Xuong district, the central province of
Thanh Hoa , to celebrate the beginning of the new school year.
The event also saw the attendance of Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan and local officials.
Addressing the event, To Huy Rua urged the school to focus on
teaching foreign languages and information technology to students while
improving the quality of teachers and education officials.
Also on September 3, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc beat the
drum to kick-start the new school year at a college in the northern
mountainous province of Tuyen Quang.
The Deputy PM handed over
the Prime Minister’s decision to rename Tuyen Quang College as Tan Trao
University to the provincial leaders.-VNA