The United Nations has called on Vietnam to set up strategies on the development and management of teachers to provide enough qualified and devoted instructors for remote areas to meet the national target the universalisation of junior secondary education by 2010.
The recommendation was made by the Head of the UNESCO-Hanoi Office, Katherine Muller Marin, at a ceremony to mark Vietnam Teachers’ Day in Hanoi on November 21.
Marin emphasised that the strategies are very necessary also to maintain major progress, especially in the movement “Education for All”, made by the educational sector in the recent past.
She called on the educational sector to focus on quality in its training programmes, especially in preschool, vocational training and tertiary education.
Once all these challenges are solved, the target of realizing a learning society will be in sight, said the representative from the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
The UN pledged to help the Vietnamese Government in career development for teachers in order to speed up its progress towards this goal.
VOVNews/VNA