Over the 25 years of construction and development, right from early years o the province's reestablishment, Binh Duong identified education and training development as the top goal and the driving force for economic growth. Receiving attention and investment, the province's education training cause has made great progress, not only contributing to improving people's intellectual level but also meeting the requirements of industrialization and modernization.
School meets learning demand
Looking back in 1997, the number of school buildings in the province was very small, most of them were austere classrooms. 25 years later, the school system has developed widely throughout the province. From rural to urban areas, more and more schools are springing up, people's children are provided with favorable conditions to go to school. Up to now, school facilities have basically met the requirements of educational development. Currently, the province has 728 educational training institutions with more than 499,000 students, 303/384 public schools were upgraded, reaching the rate of 78.9%.
Hung Vuong Gifted High School (Thu Dau Mot City) commends and rewards students who won the National Excellent Student Award in the 2019-2020 school year.
In addition to the spacious appearance, schools are also green, clean and beautiful. The green color of flowers and trees covers school yards. Pre-schools and primary schools are also decorated, dotted with miniatures, green libraries, giving students the thought that "every day at school is a happy day". Schools are clean and beautiful, meet the modern teaching trend. Modern teaching equipment is also equipped by the education and training branch. In many schools in the province, teachers and students teach and learn together through smart boards; projectors are gradually replacing blackboards; lab rooms, audio systems for English teaching are also equipped at many schools.
In addition to investment in material facilities, the teaching staff has also been improved to meet the requirements of fundamental and comprehensive reform of education and training. The majority of teachers and administrators are trained and have a sense of self-improvement to heighten professional and management capacity. Up to now, nearly 100% of teachers and administrators meet the required standard or higher. Education branch regularly reviews and supplements staffing in every school year in order to meet the increasing learning and development demand of the society and innovation requirements.
Only during the last five years, this branch has been developing teachers and educational administrators in terms of professional competence, skills of building and implementing educational plans in the direction of students' competency development; innovated teaching, testing and assessment methods, organize creative experiential activities; strengthened education training on physical development, ethics, lifestyle, skills, entrepreneurship suitable to each school level; school violence prevention. Provincial administrators and teachers are constantly innovating and creating in teaching. Teachers organized many active teaching forms, interdisciplinary integration, used modern teaching equipment, put STEM approach into teaching for students...
Quality excellence
Paying attention to the cause of "people cultivation", every year, the province always prioritizes spending on education training. With the proper investment in material facilities, equipment, and staff, the province's educational training quality has made remarkable progress. In recent the high school graduation exam, Binh Duong was appreciated throughout the country in terms of high school graduation exam results.
Specifically, in 2020, Binh Duong ranked second in the country in terms of the average score of high school graduation exam, and ranked second or third at some exam subjects. In the high school graduation exam 2021, Binh Duong led the country in exam results. Namely, the high school graduation rate reached 99.95%, the average score of exam subjects was 7,030 points, ranking 1/63 provinces and cities across the country; Average scores of 7/9 exam subjects ranked first, second, and third across the country. The difference between high school graduation exam scores and grade-12 transcripts has the lowest deviations among 63 provinces.
Over 25 years of investing in the "people cultivation" cause, the quality of education training in the province is now uniform across regions. In high school graduation exams, many schools in rural areas achieved 100% high school graduation rate. Northern localities, such as Phu Giao and Dau Tieng districts, each year have students admitted to top universities. At the intellectual playgrounds held by education and training branch, such as: Good students in literature - Sao Khue Award, good students in math - Luong The Vinh Award, or science and technology contests, science and technology creativity contests for teenagers and children, there are students in rural areas winning prizes.
The quality of universal education is improving day by day, Binh Duong also proves the effectiveness of education and training through the quality of spearhead education. In national competitions for excellent students in recent years, the number of students winning prizes has continuously increased; There were years, students in the province even won first prizes. With their studiousness, at the national science and technology competition, every year Binh Duong students bring glory to the province through prizes they won.
Building a learning society, schools at the high school level are invested; The system of universities, colleges and vocational schools in the province has been diversified to meet the learning needs of all classes of people. Various types of educational training institutions by the form of educational socialization have been promoted by the province.
* Dr. Nguyen Thi Nhat Hang, Director of Provincial Department of Education and Training:
Over the past 25 years, the province's education and training career has developed quite synchronously in terms of scale, quality, facilities, teachers and administrators. Education socialization is promoted. The size of educational institutions is gradually expanded with many types such as public, semi-public, people-founded schools, professional schools, vocational schools, universities according to international standards to meet the demand for improving people's knowledge, training human resources of the province. The province is interested in supplementing the teacher and administrator staff, step by step standardizing the quality; maintaining a satisfactory proportion of the total annual budget expenditure to invest in the development of material facilities to basically meet the requirements and guarantee the quality of teaching and learning.
* Meritorious teacher Nguyen Van Son, Principal of Hung Vuong Gifted High School:
With the province's attention and investment in all aspects for the education and training brach, the quality of universal and spearhead education of the province has steadily increase. For many years, the province has invested in universal education and consolidated from facilities to staff; from preschool to high school, higher education. In particular, education branch has specialized schools, high-quality high schools, and junior high schools to create good human resources. In addition, the province also creates favorable conditions for the development of a system of non-public schools. This, together with the public school system, has helped meet the learning demand of the local people.
* Tran Cong Thanh, Principal of Binh My Primary School (North Tan Uyen District):
I have been working in education branch since 1991, have worked in many schools of Tan Uyen district, and now is North Tan Uyen. Therefore, I have witnessed a great change in the education and training career of my province, especially since 1997. After the reestablishment of the province, some local schools in Tan Uyen were still austere. With the attention of the province, education branch, the local government and the whole society, schools from kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools, high schools in the district have been gradually upgraded, many schools meet national standards, including Binh My Primary School.
Reported by Hong Thai - Translated by Ngoc Huynh
