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The project is planned to be implemented on a trial basis in 2017, before it is carried out in a large scale from 2019.
Under the National Assembly’s Resolution No 49, the investment projects capitalized at 35 trillion dong and more, of which 11 trillion dong at least come from the state budget, must be seen as important national projects, and must be submitted to the National Assembly for approval.
Therefore, the 70 trillion dong education development plan will be put into discussion at the National Assembly’s meetings.
It seems that the project by MOET has not been applauded by educators and education experts. At first glance, the project has not caught the sympathy from them.
Professor Nguyen Minh Thuyet, who worked at the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children; noted that in general, the authors of national projects always showed grandiose volumes of documents to explain the projects. Meanwhile, the draft plan on education development, opened for collecting opinions from scientists just comprises of 30 paper pages, therefore, it seems to be unconvincing.
Thuyet, on one hand, agrees that it is necessary to build up new education curriculums and new textbooks for grammar schools, on the other hand, said that MOIT is following a reverse order in developing education.
“The education strategy until 2020 has not been officially released, while MOIT tries to build up curriculums and compile textbooks,” Thuyet said.
Dr Nguyen Ke Hao, former Director of the Primary Education Department under MOIT, said that the Document of the 11th Communist Party Congress requires a fundamental and comprehensive education renovation in Vietnam. How will Vietnam’s education be renovated? Will the current 12-year general school mechanism exist, or will Vietnamese students spend 9 or 10 years at general schools like in other countries?
“We still do not have an education development strategy for 2011-2020, so what is the basis for MOIT to compile the project?” Hao questioned. “I think that it would be better to think that we have not read the draft project. We just consider the draft project as a “rough copy” compiled by a group of authors who try to list the works that need to be done”.
Other experts share the same view with Hao, saying that the draft project still needs just causes to appear.
Professor Chu Hao, former of the Ministry of Science and Technology, noted that MOIT tries to compile new curriculums and textbooks, even though there has been no review and conclusion about the currently applied curriculums and textbooks. He believes that it is necessary to review the implementation of the current curriculums to find out the problems first, and then build up new systems.
What to do to ease the education curriculums? What to do to give career advice to high school students ? How to settle the problems in the examination and testing schemes? The questions remain unanswered.
“There has been no scientific research work about a program which has been implemented over the last 10 years. Therefore, there is no scientific foundation for the next projects,” he said.
According to Professor Van Nhu Cuong, the thing that MOIT needs to do now is to renovate the whole education system. Since it is a long term goal, in the immediate time, MOIT should try to make the curriculums not overloaded to students. “This proves to be useful and less costly,” Cuong said.
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