Viet Nam accelerating progress towards quality universal primary education

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Viet Nam accelerating progress towards quality
universal primary education

• Education for All Fast Track Initiative
• Partnership Meeting, Beijing, China
• 30 November 2 December 2005
• Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), Hanoi,
  Viet Nam

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This Presentation

• Viet Nams Commitments and Achievements
• Key Challenges - and Actions
• EFA FTI Indicators and Viet Nam
• International support for education
• Looking forward improving international support

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Viet Nams Commitments

• 10 year National Education Development Strategy
  (20012010)
• Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth
  Strategy (CPRGS), approved in May 2002
• A comprehensive and costed National EFA Action
  Plan (20032015), approved in August 2003
• New 5 year plan (2006-2010) being prepared
• Education is the top priority for public
  expenditure state budget increasing from 15.1
  (2000) to 18.6 (2004) and to 20 by 2008

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Viet Nams Achievements

• Primary net enrolment rate of 94 (2003)
• Primary completion rate of 84 (2003)
• Gender parity in primary enrolment, completion
  and Grade 5 learning achievement (reading and
  maths)
• Decreasing enrolment and completion gap between
  rich and poor and between majority Kinh and
  ethnic minority children

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Viet Nams Achievements

• Expansion of pre-school, secondary and higher
  education
• Majority of boys and girls have access to 5 years
  of primary and 4 years of secondary education
• New primary and secondary curriculum, textbooks
  and teacher training programs
• Adult literacy rate of 90,3 (2003)

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Key Challenges .. and actions

• Universalising access and completion
• Improving quality for all
• Strengthening management

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Universalising access and completion

• Targeted support for disadvantaged children to
  attend school including poor children, ethnic
  minority children, children with disabilities and
  others
• A programme of exemptions from school fees for
  disadvantaged children
• Providing schooling in remote communities
• Exploring options for all children to have
  full-day primary schooling (now c.25), in line
  with international norms of 850-1000 hours a year

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Improving quality for all

• Regulation on minimum quality standards for all
  primary schools to overcome deficiencies and
  differences in learning outcomes
• National Targeted Program (NTP) to renovate
  curriculum, textbooks and teaching methods,
  upgrade infrastructure and provide support for
  ethnic minorities and disadvantaged regions
• Improving teacher competencies and qualifications
• Strengthening all childrens opportunities to
  benefit from the new curriculum

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Strengthening management

• Using annual district audits to improve
  information, monitoring and targeting so all
  primary schools can reach minimum quality
  standards
• Introducing medium-term expenditure frameworks to
  strengthen provincial planning and links between
  plans and budgets
• Developing teacher professional standards to
  guide training need assessment, appraisal and
  deployment
• Examining ways to improve teacher pay,
  incentives, performance and management

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EFA FTI indicators (Viet Nam today)

• 20 of Government budget for education (18.6)
• 42-64 of education budget on primary (c.32)
• Teacher salary 3.5 times GDP per capita (2.4)
• Pupil-teacher ratio no more than 401 (231)
• 33 non-teacher salary recurrent spending (c.20)
• Repetition rate 10 or lower (c.3)
• 850-1000 hours per pupil per year (c.500-600)

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International support for education

• Many agencies support a wide range of projects
  for EFA, many focused on primary education
• International support to develop Viet Nams
  National EFA Action Plan from late 2001
• International endorsement of Viet Nams National
  EFA Action Plan in September 2003
• Education Sector Group (ESG) established to
  promote more effective international support
• Viet Nam achieved FTI status in October 2003

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International support a new approach

• 6 international agencies providing Targeted
  Budget Support for EFA, using Government budget
  systems and procedures
• TBS for EFA provides US129 million to the
  National Targeted Program, or c.12 of the total
  NTP budget
• Most significant international support since Viet
  Nam issued the National EFA Action Plan and
  achieved FTI status but agreed before both
  finalised

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International support a new approach

• TBS for EFA will
• Help more children to complete primary education
  at least of minimum quality standards
• Use routine Government procedures rather than
  special donor project procedures
• Strengthen existing mechanisms and management
  capacity (for reporting, accounting, auditing and
  monitoring achievements) at all levels
• Help faster and more effective disbursement

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Looking forward improving international support

• Viet Nam has just issued the Hanoi Core Statement
  on Aid Effectiveness, based on the Paris
  Declaration
• HCS identifies targets and indicators to align
  international support with Viet Nams plans,
  systems and procedures
• All international partners have endorsed the HCS
• Focus now on putting the HCS into practice - in
  education by building on the experience of TBS
  for EFA

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Looking forward improving international support

• The Fast Track Initiative could support Viet Nam
  by
• Providing information about how other countries
  are accelerating progress to quality UPE
• Sharing ideas about how aid effectiveness can be
  improved and monitored in the education sector
• Providing additional funds to enable all children
  to complete a full primary education of
  reasonable quality, costing approximately US700
  million

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• Thank you for your attention