Sustainable economic development through education and learning promotion in Ho Chi Minh City

Seminar "Work to encourage learning, encourage talents, build a learning society, and a learning city in Ho Chi Minh City"

The seminar "Work to promote learning, encourage talents, build a learning society, and a learning city in Ho Chi Minh City" organized by the Propaganda Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee this morning, October 9, attracted many notable comments from localities, organizations, and units in Ho Chi Minh City.

Don't let the burden of tuition stop students

Mr. Tran Nam, Head of Student Affairs Department, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ho Chi Minh City National University), said that in the current context, many universities have very high tuition fees, which makes it difficult for many students to access education . This raises the issue of how to have a foundation to help students continue their studies and have high career opportunities. How to prevent tuition fees from becoming a barrier to prevent students from entering the lecture hall.

Mr. Tran Nam said that at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City, currently 20% of the students are from Ho Chi Minh City and 80% of them come from other provinces. Many of the students are children of farmers, this poses a problem for the school, it needs to have solutions so that students with difficulties cannot drop out of school.

Mr. Tran Nam informed that the school's majors keep tuition fees from 14,300,000 VND - 29,800,000 VND/year; each semester, students only have to pay from 7 million to nearly 15 million VND. In the context of market pressure, revenue sources, and university autonomy, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, still maintains many majors with tuition fees of about 14 million VND/year. With this fee, it will create conditions for students and families to access, helping their children to go to school, because as a public university, the school has missions and goals to serve society and the community.

Mr. Tran Nam, Head of Student Affairs Department, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ho Chi Minh City National University)

"Every year, the school awards about 27 billion VND in scholarships to support students, with diverse scholarship sources from alumni, businesses, and tuition support scholarships from the school...", said Mr. Tran Nam.

In addition, according to Mr. Tran Nam, the encouragement of learning, talent, and lifelong learning is also reflected in the constant focus on training according to social needs and for society. The school's units organize many training courses for undergraduate, master's, doctoral degrees as well as short-term certificates continuously throughout the year. The school also has an online distance learning program to create conditions for students and teachers to study, improve their expertise, and improve their qualifications...

The models of "Learning Family", "Learning Clan"... are developed in localities.

In recent times, the work of promoting learning, promoting talents, building a learning society and a learning city in Ho Chi Minh City has achieved some remarkable results.

As in District 4, up to now, 100% of wards, neighborhoods, primary schools, secondary schools, high schools, and armed forces units in the district and ward have established learning promotion associations. The district has 13 ward learning promotion associations; 185 learning promotion associations (78 residential area associations; 39 school associations; 28 armed forces associations; 40 other associations).

Information, communication and propaganda on promoting learning, promoting talents, building a learning society and lifelong learning are diversified in many forms.

The discussion attracted many comments and remarkable opinions.

In Cu Chi district, up to now, the whole district has 21 learning promotion associations in communes and towns, 9 grassroots learning promotion associations; 419 grassroots learning promotion associations, including 305 hamlet and neighborhood learning promotion associations and 114 school learning promotion associations. The whole district has 98,022 learning promotion association members, reaching a rate of 22.97% of the total population.

The models of "Learning Family", "Learning Clan", "Learning Community", "Learning Unit" and "Learning Citizen" are replicated.

In particular, Cu Chi district is forming and building a "Spiritual Parents" club model to attract adults to sponsor, care for, and encourage poor, disadvantaged, and orphaned students, so that they have faith and motivation to continue going to school.

In Thu Duc City (HCMC), from 2019 to 2023, this locality and wards awarded 42,829 scholarships for promoting learning and talent with a total amount of VND 55,919 billion, of which 2,529 scholarships for promoting talent (1&1) were awarded with a total amount of VND 5,493 billion; The Association for Promoting Learning at all levels mobilized members to raise 800,105 piggy banks for promoting learning with a total amount of VND 301,045 billion.

In addition, the branches, associations, and members' families have raised 7,591 piggy banks each year or set up savings books for education, with more than 22,738,565 VND donated to the scholarship fund to award scholarships to poor but excellent students, students with disabilities, children of war invalids, and disadvantaged families...

Mr. Le Hong Son, Member of the City Party Committee, Permanent Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee

"The work of promoting learning and talent must develop further and more broadly."

Mr. Le Hong Son, member of the City Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee's Propaganda Department, said that when Ho Chi Minh City was officially recognized as a member of the UNESCO Global Learning Cities Network (February 2024), this was also a milestone to further promote the city's work of promoting learning and talent. The work of promoting learning and talent must be developed higher and wider. This is also the work, responsibility, and role of the entire political system and all levels of organizations, not just the responsibility of the education and training sector, labor - war invalids and social affairs or promoting learning.

Mr. Son also hopes that agencies, units, and learning promotion associations at all levels in the coming time will continue to promote the positive results achieved, overcome difficulties in the work of promoting learning and talent, focus on modernizing and digitizing some content to keep up with some subjects, and reach learners as quickly as possible. At the same time, it is necessary to continue to link learning promotion work with the school system, especially focusing on information and communication work.

Mr. Le Hong Son emphasized that, from the perspective of the country in general, Ho Chi Minh City in particular, if we want to develop a sustainable socio-economic situation, we cannot ignore the work of education and training, and encouragement of learning and talent. There are professions that directly bring high economic value, but there are also very important indirect professions, without which there will be no strength, that is education and training, vocational training, and encouragement of learning and talent - without which there will be no training of people, no talent. Therefore, promoting investment in education and training, vocational training, and encouragement of learning and talent is also an investment in the development of the city and the country.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/phat-trien-kinh-te-ben-vung-nho-giao-duc-va-khuyen-hoc-tai-tphcm-185241009124859895.htm