Speaking at the ceremony to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the education sector and the opening of the 2025-2026 school year, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that the past 80 years have been like a miracle. From the context of a country with 95% of the population being illiterate, the intellectual class 'as sparse as autumn leaves', the number of higher education schools counted on the fingers, and going through decades of war, with many hardships and difficulties,... today, the whole country has completed universal education from 5-year-old kindergarten to the end of junior high school. The quality of general education has been gradually improved. Vietnam is internationally recognized as one of the countries with good general education in the world.

For many years, Vietnam has been in the top 10 countries with the best results in Olympic competitions around the world . Currently, the country has over 52,000 schools, enough learning space for 26 million students, of which 65% are standard schools, many of which are spacious and modern.

“We have a force of 1.6 million well-trained teachers, among whom there are elite groups that are not inferior to any teaching force in the world,” said the Minister.

In addition, there are 243 universities, more than 800 colleges and vocational schools, both public, private and international, and there are industries and higher education institutions in the top 500 schools in the world, training in most fields and professions that the world has, contributing 75% of the country's scientific research products and inventions.

The team of scientists is also large, including many talented people who have made many contributions domestically and internationally.

“Our country has the foundation and potential it has today, thanks in part to the important contribution of education and training. Compared to the world's leading advanced education systems, the education sector still has many things to strive for, to do better... But with such a starting point, circumstances, conditions and costs... what the whole country and the education sector have done in the past 80 years is truly a great achievement and a source of pride, if not a miracle", Mr. Son said.

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Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son hopes that all teachers, education staff and students will be more creative and make more efforts to overcome their own limits.

Today, the Education sector held the opening ceremony to enter the new school year, a new period, with Resolution 71 on breakthrough in education and training development just issued by the Politburo, in which the education and training sector was honored to be identified as the top national policy, the decisive factor for the future of the nation. The Minister emphasized: "This is a special, unprecedented opportunity for the education sector, a great mission, responsibility and honor of the sector. Resolution 71 has the meaning of opening and guiding the new revolution in education".

Minister Nguyen Kim Son affirmed that the Ministry of Education and Training and the entire sector are willing to devote all their intelligence, determination, creativity, enthusiasm and noble professional spirit to excellently fulfill their responsibility to the country, and to start implementing Resolution 71 of the Politburo right from the first days of the new school year.

In particular, it is necessary to immediately review, self-examine, self-correct, clearly recognize and resolutely overcome the limitations. "The overcoming cannot be done overnight, but it must be done immediately and every morning and every afternoon," said the Minister.

“The road ahead is very long, the burden on our shoulders is very heavy. I hope that all teachers, education staff and students, we have been creative - need to be more creative, have made efforts - need to make more efforts, act faster and stronger to overcome our own limits, take advantage of all opportunities and conditions, and complete the new glorious mission,” the Minister of Education and Training shared.

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