On the afternoon of December 2, the National Assembly discussed in the hall the Investment Policy for the National Target Program on modernization and improvement of the quality of education and training for the period 2026 - 2035.
Speaking in the hall, delegate Nguyen Hoang Bao Tran (HCMC National Assembly delegation) said that this is a key program to improve the quality of human resources, narrow the educational gap and ensure fairness for all Vietnamese children.
This delegate analyzed a number of limitations that are requiring innovation, thereby proposing feasible solutions to ensure that the national target program is practical, practical and effective.
Delegate Nguyen Hoang Bao Tran said that in recent years, when talking about educational difficulties, we have often mentioned remote areas, islands, and islands. In these areas, students have to study far away, lack facilities, and limited access to education.
However, there is another group of subjects that is less mentioned but in reality is equally difficult, which is the children of workers in industrial parks and export processing zones.
According to the delegate, on the surface, the children living in urban areas, near the center, seem to have more favorable conditions. But in reality, workers' lives are still difficult: cramped boarding houses, unsecured living environment, parents working overtime continuously, unstable income, not enough time to take care of and support their children's education.
Delegate Tran emphasized that most of the children's families only live in a 10-12 m2 rented room, the children do not have a space for studying, lack social connection, and do not have access to extracurricular activities.
"Compared to children in mountainous areas, the difficulties of the two subjects, although different in form, are all disadvantaged: lack of quality learning environment, lack of support from families and lack of opportunities for comprehensive development" - said the delegate of Ho Chi Minh City.
This person added that in some places, more than 70% of children in industrial parks are not allowed to study gifted subjects, foreign languages or extracurricular activities because the family's economic conditions do not allow it.
From the above analysis, this delegate suggested that the National Target Program must clearly identify the children of workers as a group of subjects that needs priority support, not a common group of subjects.
Accordingly, priority is not only given in the scholarship policy, but also in contents such as: Support for the construction of public schools near industrial parks.
Many industrial parks have tens of thousands of workers but schools are seriously lacking. Children have to go to school far away, the number of classes is too overloaded.
Or the model of flexible boarding - semi-boarding schools for children of workers. This is to ensure lunch, afternoon classes, participate in skills activities, and have fun safely, helping parents feel secure when going to work.
Along with that, there must be a community learning space in the boarding house; psychological support program - skills for children of migrants
We cannot let a large part of the children of the core workforce of the economy suffer from educational opportunities. Education fairness is not only a matter of mountainous areas - low-lying areas but also fairness right in the heart of industrial cities - delegate Nguyen Hoang Bao Tran clearly stated.
