(VOVworld) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged the educational sector to successfully implement the Party and state’s policies on educational reform and the Vietnamese people’s cultural development. He made the remarks at Hanoi’s Nguyen Gia Thieu high school where he beat a drum on the occasion of the beginning of the new academic year on Thursday. In his opening speech, Trong encouraged the school to further improve the quality of teaching and learning, both in academic and moral terms, and in ways that inspire a sense of creativity and self-directed learning among the students. He also urged Hanoi’s education sector to launch a movement to promote a civilized lifestyle and a good pedagogic environment while mobilizing all available resources for national education development: "It’s important to speed up the combination of state support and all available social resources for education development by upgrading the infrastructure and quality of study and teaching activities. It’s also necessary to integrate school activities in other social activities while stepping up the fight against negative phenomena in education."


Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong beat drum to start the new school year in Nguyen Gia Thieu High School in Hanoi


President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan attended a ceremony on Thursday to begin the new school year at Nguyen Thien Thanh Gifted School in Tra Vinh City. He expressed his delight at the school’s achievements in past years and urged Tra Vinh province to step up efforts to improve its education quality, especially in the disadvantaged and remote areas where ethnic minorities live.

That day, National Assembly Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong also kicked off the new academic year at several newly opened schools in Muong Thanh commune of Mai Son district, Son La province. She urged Son La provincial authorities to pay more attention to developing pre-school education, especially in mountain and ethnic areas while putting more effort into maintaining boarding schools for ethnic students. On this occasion, Ms. Phong visited the VOV correspondence office in the Northwestern Region. She hailed VOV for launching broadcasts in three ethnic languages of Thai, Mong, and Dao, saying this was of great political importance. She also asked the office to swiftly and accurately disseminate the Party and State’s guidelines to ethnic minorities in an interesting and informative manner, making VOV a bridge connecting people with the Party, the state, and the National Assembly.