In the afternoon of January 15, 2016 in Ha Noi, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) and Ministry of Education and Training (MET) signed a Cooperation Program on improving the efficiency of national management in library and enhancing activities about education, lifelong learning at libraries period 2016 – 2020.
Attending the Ceremony there were Mr. Pham Vu Luan, member of Party Center, Minister of MET; Mr. Hoang Tuan Anh, member of Party Center, Minister of MCST; Mr. Huynh Vinh Ai, Deputy Minister of MCST, together with representatives from Departments, Bureaus, Units of MET and MCST.
The Signing Ceremony of Cooperation between MCST and MET expects to increase the cooperation between the two Ministries in order to enhance the quality, effectiveness of public library and school library system’s operation, promote maximum the existing resources, abilities of two fields to develop programs, organize educational activities through this system. Besides, to promote propaganda activities, exchanges, serving books and newspapers to create reading habit, increase the sense of self-study, initiative, positive, creative of learners, help to promote the quality and effectiveness of education, meet the need of life-long learning of the people; Collaborate to solve difficulties, limits affect negatively to the school library’s activities.
Cooperative content between MCST and MET includes: Organizing propaganda and implementation guidance about education, life-long learning at libraries; Training, improving, guiding of library profession for librarians; Holding propaganda activities, providing books, newspapers, encouraging to read, increasing the ability of searching, exploring information for students, pupils; Investigating, reviewing the implementation of cooperative content at public libraries and school libraries in provincials; Developing, supplementing, modifying and completing the legal normative act system relating to school library area; Proposing to Government, Ministries, Professions and provincials to support the necessary human resources in order to promote the cooperative activities between two fields; Creating a structure to help school libraries and public libraries in the same community area can be collaborated, shared, supported each other in infrastructure, library equipments, management experience, human resources.
Speaking at the Signing Ceremony, Minister of MCST, Mr. Hoang Tuan Anh expressed: Develop library and develop reading culture have significant role in educational innovation, cultural development, building comprehensive developed Vietnamese people. With nearly 400 libraries at university, colleges and 25.915 libraries at high schools have contributed to increase cultural standard, create people with knowledge, ethic, clean lifestyle to satisfy the development of modern society in the task of industrialization – modernization of the country. To confirm the cooperation program between two professions is common mission of the entire society, Mr. Pham Vu Luan, Minister of MET commits to direct the MET’s departments as well as the whole MET profession will implement seriously, regularly, effectively the signed issues to contribute to improve the quality of human resources of the country.
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Overview of the Signing Ceremony
Mrs. Vu Duong Thuy Nga, Director of the Library Department delivers Opening Speech at the Ceremony
Mr. Hoang Tuan Anh, Minister of MCST speaks at the Ceremony
Mr. Pham Vu Luan, Minister of MET speaks at the Ceremony
MCST and MET sign the Cooperation Program period 2016-2020
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