Secretary of the provincial
Party Committee Bui Van Tinh learns about the operation of the Lam Son primary
and secondary school after merger.
Implementing the decision of the provincial People’s Committee, in 2006, the
People’s Committee of Luong Son district issued a decision on the mergers of
five primary schools and five secondary schools into five primary and secondary
schools in Lam Son, Truong Son, Hop Hoa, Thanh Luong and Hop Thanh communes,
decreasing five schools compared to 2015.
After the mergers, the schools’ managerial staff have been strengthened while
the number of pupils going to school has been maintained. More investments have
been poured into the schools’ activities and infrastructure while salaries and
allowances for teachers have been ensured. The schools have used infrastructure
facilities and teaching equipment effectively and actively managed the quality
of enrollments. After one year, the teaching and learning quality has
much improved.
However, there are also several difficulties such as inadequate awareness of
the merger’s objectives in some areas; redundancy of managers, teachers and
staff members; and weak public asset management and use.
Concluding the working session, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui
Van Tinh highlighted key tasks in the coming time, including the continued
merger of schools in the districts in accordance with the provincial People’s
Committee and the rearrangement of teachers after mergers.
The district should encourage large-scale schools to merge with smaller ones
and improve the quality of grassroots-level Party organisations and mass
organisations in the schools. The financial sector will ensure stable budget
allocation and fix the number of schools to arrange accountants. There is
no need to arrange health workers in schools which are near medical clinics.
The district Party Committee will build an education and training development
project towards developing the district’s boarding ethnic high school into a
high-quality school for ethnic minority pupils.
Relevant agencies need to remove difficulties for schools after mergers in
order to help them meet leadership, management and teaching quality improvement
requirements.
The district’s educational sector should report to the Minister of Education
and Training difficulties in realizing regulations on standard schools in
mountainous areas while the Departments of Home Affairs and Education and
Training will study the possible mergers of some high schools to streamline the
apparatus./.