Comprehensive care for education in ethnic minority areas

Students' meals are guaranteed.

In particular, taking care of boarding meals for students in ethnic minority areas is identified by Quang Ninh province as one of the important solutions to improve the physical and mental strength of the young generation, contributing to comprehensive education .

According to the province's policy, boarding students are supported with 720,000 VND/month to help reduce the financial burden on families.

Quang Ninh also spends about 31.3 billion VND/year to support lunch money, summer school expenses, and cooking for preschool children.

Support food expenses and care costs for boarding students... in ethnic minority, mountainous, border and island areas.

This policy has a positive impact on improving the quality of education in mountainous, border and island areas.

Since July 2023, the Provincial People's Committee has approved the project to propagate and mobilize to improve nutrition and physical strength for children in highland, ethnic minority and mountainous areas of Quang Ninh province, period 2022-2025, the project is deployed in 64 communes in ethnic minority, mountainous, border and island areas.

In particular, the province has set a target of reducing the rate of underweight children under 5 years old to below 11% and stunted children to below 17% by 2025.

Since this project was launched, all levels, sectors and localities have been more active and synchronous in taking care of preschool children.

For the education and training sector, the sector has directed preschools to pay attention to taking good care of children's nutrition, improving the quality of meals, ensuring balance, reasonableness, and adequacy, ensuring food hygiene and safety, and increasing physical activities for children at school.

On that basis, educational institutions constantly improve the quality of meals, diversify rations, strengthen nutrition education, and mobilize social resources to improve boarding meals for students.

On the other hand, nutrition communication activities, connecting philanthropists, and mobilizing parents to send their children to school regularly are also implemented synchronously.

Caring for and providing boarding meals not only ensures the physical health of ethnic minority children but is also an important solution to narrow the educational gap between mountainous and lowland areas, gradually realizing the province's sustainable development goals in the new period.

Great reward policy

In addition, the province and the education sector always pay close attention to universalizing education. On that basis, schools have been active in mobilizing school-age students to attend classes at the beginning of the school year with many solutions.

Strengthen management measures to minimize the number of students dropping out of school, improve the quality of education to reduce the rate of students repeating a grade.

Scene of the 2025 Ethnic Cultural Festival at the Boarding Secondary and High School for Ethnic Minorities of Quang Ninh province.

Mobilize most school teachers to conduct basic surveys to each household, collect statistics, classify specifically, and grasp the age and educational level of the popularized subjects.

The staff and teachers assigned to concurrently work on popularization are enthusiastic, highly responsible, and meet the requirements of the task. Promote the application of IT in management, planning, and organization of teaching and learning activities.

In particular, in order to improve the quality of key education, as well as promptly reward, encourage and motivate students in ethnic minority, mountainous and border areas with excellent achievements, the Provincial People's Council issued Resolution 63/2021/NQ-HDND regulating the reward and support regime for training excellent students of Quang Ninh province and a number of preferential policies for students of specialized schools from the 2021-2022 school year to the 2025-2026 school year.

In particular, students or groups of students winning prizes at the provincial level will be awarded from 500,000 VND to 2 million VND, at the national level from 20-50 million VND, at the international regional level from 100-500 million VND, and at the international level from 200-700 million VND.

Prize-winning students who are ethnic minorities in communes, villages, and hamlets in ethnic minority, mountainous, border, and island areas will receive a reward equal to 1.5 times the above reward level.

At the same time, the staff and teachers in ethnic minority, mountainous, border and island areas are constantly being strengthened in both quantity and quality.

Every year, the province issues policies to supplement staff and labor contracts for public preschool and general education units to gradually resolve difficulties in the teaching staff.

In addition, professional training courses, foreign languages, and pedagogical skills are held regularly to help teachers in mountainous and island areas keep up with the requirements of innovation in general education programs and textbooks.

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