Hai Phong education affirms leading position

Education and training center in northern coastal region

Over 80 years of development, Hai Phong’s education and training sector has made remarkable strides. Right after the August 1945 Revolution, the city opened its first kindergarten classes while also promoting literacy campaigns and cultural education for workers and officials.

During the resistance wars against the French colonials and the US aggressors, the “Two Goods” movement (good teaching, good learning) continued to flourish in the city. By 2010, Hai Phong was the only locality in the country with students winning international awards for 15 consecutive years.

In the past five years, education and training in Hai Phong has advanced even more strongly, especially after the merger of Hai Duong province with the city.

According to Luong Van Viet, Director of the city Department of Education and Training, the city currently has 1,608 educational institutions with more than 1.05 million students. Public schools meeting national standards account for 76.9%.

The quality of general education remains consistently among the best nationwide. For more than 30 consecutive years, Hai Phong has had students winning international prizes, affirming its role as a leading center for gifted education.

Vocational training has been developed in an open and flexible manner, aligned with economic restructuring and labor market demands. The city now has 77 vocational institutions and 8 universities. Between 2021 and 2025, these institutions are expected to train nearly 40,000 university and postgraduate students, providing high-quality human resources for key economic sectors and reinforcing Hai Phong’s role as an education and training hub in the northern coastal region.

Towards becoming an international education hub

Hai Phong aims to become a modern, smart industrial city by 2030. In line with this goal, it strives to build itself into an international center for education, training, research, application, and development of science, technology, and marine economy.

To realize this vision, the Department of Education and Training will continue advising the city on comprehensive and breakthrough solutions to educational development.

This includes innovating educational thinking, planning, and modernizing school facilities to meet national standards, raising the proportion of standardized schools to over 90% by 2030.

The city also seeks to improve the quality of public education, encourage advanced multi-level educational models, and enhance teacher training to meet both national and international standards.

At the same time, Hai Phong will effectively implement the 2018 general education curriculum, improve comprehensive education with a focus on practical learning, ethics, and life skills, while expanding non-public and continuing education to promote lifelong learning.

Vocational and higher education will be developed in a flexible, high-quality manner, aligned with the labor market and the city’s economic transformation. The city also plans to attract prestigious international universities to open campuses in Hai Phong.

BUI HUONG