Provincial DoET will further improve management work, educational quality in a comprehensive and sustainable way, in accordance with the spirit of “initiative, determination” for the 2012-2013 school year. Binh Duong Daily had an interview with Mr.Duong The Phuong, Director of provincial Department of Education and Training (DoET) about tasks for the 2012-2013 school year.

What is your assessment about the results of the 2011-2012 school year?

The province’s quality of education and training made obvious changes in the 2011-2012 school year. Particularly, as of late July, 53 out of 91 communes, wards and townships fulfilled pre-school universalization education for five-year-old children; there were 99% of pupils with high school graduation; Binh Duong ranked 14th among the country’s 63 provinces and cities about the result of the university and college entrance exam…

What tasks have provincial DoET put forward to improve the quality of education for the 2012-2013 school year?

Provincial DoET will further improve management work, educational quality in a comprehensive and sustainable way, in accordance with the spirit of “initiative, determination” for the 2012-2013 school year.

Particularly, provincial DoET will strive to fulfill pre-school universalization education for five-year-old children by the end of 2013; implement the Project of “Improving the quality of English teaching and learning at schools between 2012-2017; improve the quality of Hung Vuong specialized high school between 2011 and 2015 and orientations till 2020; implement the project of new-style primary school model…Provincial DoET will also instructed schools to set up specific plans to improve their educational quality.

At the recent conference to review the 2011-2012 school year, he said: “Provincial DoET will reorganize extra teaching and learning in the 2012-2013 school year”. Could you tell us detail information about this?

Provincial DoET is setting up a document to instruct schools to correct extra teaching and learning. Extra teaching and learning will be banned for schools with two teaching spells of a day or specializes ones. For other cases, extra teaching and learning must be stopped before 19 pm daily.

How will province DoET do to further develop teaching and managerial staff?

This is the task regularly implemented by provincial DoET in the last school years. In the 2012 and 2013 school year, provincial DoET will seriously implement the 2011-2020 human resource development project; further give training to managerial and teaching staff at all levels; sufficiently implement central and local policies for teaching staff…

Reported by H.Thai-Translated by K.T