It is about caring for and protecting the mental health of students; Increased education on environmental protection and climate change; Ensuring equitable and quality access for students, especially disadvantaged groups, as stated by the Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training, Nguyen Kim Son.
He added that other issues that will be dominant during the mandate period will be promoting comprehensive digital transformation, ensuring cyber security for students, and promoting innovation in higher education to meet the requirements of social and economic development.
Here Kim Sun presided over the opening ceremony of the 12th Conference of Ministers of the ASEAN Branch, where Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam spoke, recalling that this country
It defines education as a national policy of paramount importance.
Duc Dam said that Vietnam allocates at least 20 percent of the state budget to the education sector, who said he is confident that the member states of the regional bloc will work together to develop and implement a correct and effective education policy in the near future.
The Deputy Head of Government, citing The Voice of Vietnam, emphasized that in the medium and long term, every country in the ASEAN community must design a more flexible and resilient education system, in order to respond to potential challenges that could disrupt learning.
In this regard, he meant that the catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past two years had caused a global crisis in education and exacerbated inequalities among children, particularly in developing countries.
He noted that in ASEAN countries, at least 180 million children and youth were affected by school closures and as many as 35 million who were unable to even enroll in educational centers, which had a very negative impact on physical, mental and academic performance. the students.
The Twelfth Ministerial Conference focused its discussions on the status of education and training in each country, as well as on the exchange of experiences and the search for collaborative solutions for the sustainable educational development of each country, especially in the post-Covid-19 era.
In addition, he updated the progress in implementing the activities envisaged under the ASEAN Education Action Plan 2021-2025 and discussed other issues.
As part of the event, the ASEAN+3 meeting, with partners South Korea, Japan and China, and the East Asia Education Ministers’ Meeting, which includes the ASEAN+3 countries, the United States and Australia, will be held. New Zealand, Russia and India.
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