Education and training in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in recent times has achieved important results in various fields, contributing to improving the quality of human resources, aiming to increase job creation for ethnic minorities and mountainous areas, contributing to sustainable multidimensional poverty reduction in these disadvantaged areas.
However, besides positive changes, education in ethnic minority and mountainous areas still faces many difficulties and inadequacies.
At the recent Workshop "Innovation and improvement of the quality of education and training in ethnic minority and mountainous areas: Current situation, challenges and solutions" (August 26), delegates, experts and educators discussed the development of human resources, especially high-quality human resources in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
According to the delegates, to sustainably develop human resources, especially high-quality human resources commensurate with the requirements of developing dynamic and disadvantaged areas, long-term investment and a clear roadmap for education and training are needed.
Providing support for job creation in mountainous and border ethnic minority areas should go hand in hand with policies on stabilization, settlement, tuition exemption, housing support, and special incentives such as increasing the number of teachers and taking advantage of on-site human resources.
Delegates suggested that it is necessary to pay attention to policies to ensure fairness in access to education, which is to prioritize supporting educational institutions in areas and areas with difficult facilities, equipment, teaching staff, ethnic minority and mountainous areas, areas with difficult socio-economic conditions, etc.
The Government needs to direct and evaluate the coordination and implementation of the recruitment policy between ministries, branches and between ministries and localities such as the recruitment and training targets must be linked to the needs of use, work assignment according to the correct recruitment address, training specialties must be linked to the socio-economic development orientation of the locality.
On the National Assembly's side, it is necessary to continue to monitor the implementation of policies on use and treatment of talents, human resources of ethnic minorities, and human resources working in areas with difficult and extremely difficult socio-economic conditions...
Delegates also proposed prioritizing the development of education and training for ethnic minorities and ethnic minority and mountainous areas;...
Speaking at the workshop, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long stated that the opinions at the workshop were very enthusiastic and responsible, clearly demonstrating the policies of the Party and State in the field of education and training in general, the education and training policies in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in particular were very complete and comprehensive.
However, the Deputy Prime Minister also pointed out practical difficulties such as unsynchronized schools, lack of facilities and teaching equipment; uneven quality of education, a lack of and unbalanced teaching staff...
After the workshop, the Deputy Prime Minister suggested that ministries, branches and localities focus on implementing a number of tasks such as continuing to review, amend and supplement specific policies that are suitable for practice. For example, which policies have been proposed but have not been implemented, which policies are overlapping and overlapping, what solutions need to be supplemented to create a breakthrough in the development of education and training in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
