THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 14/2001/CT-TTg
Hanoi, June 11, 2001
 
DIRECTIVE
ON RENOVATION OF THE GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM IN EXECUTION OF RESOLUTION NO. 40/2000/QH10 OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
In execution of Resolution No. 14-NQ/TW of January 11, 1979 of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee (4th Congress), since the 1981-1982 school year, the general education schools have conducted teaching and learning basically under a unified program with uniform textbooks from the 1st to 12th form. This program and these textbooks have made an important contribution to the successful fulfillment of the task of building a unified secondary education system in the whole country, creating conditions for completing the universalization of primary education, laying a favorable groundwork for the universalization of basic secondary education, gradually stabilizing, developing and raising the quality of general education over the past 20 years.
Today, in face of the new demand of national construction and defense, in face of the rapid and strong socio-economic development, of the rapid and strong development of science and technology in general and of the educational science in particular, the current program and textbooks have revealed their limitations and inadequacies. The Ministry of Education and Training has taken an initiative step in preparing for the renovation of the program of primary and basic secondary education.
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