Basic administrative procedures in education turned online
A database of over 24 million teachers and students, accounting for 98% of the total, has been verified and linked to the national population database, making the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) among the first agencies to complete the database connection, said director of the ministry's Information and Communication Technology Department Nguyen Son Hai.
Currently, MoET is piloting the implementation of electronic learning records which helps ensure convenience in storing, managing and using school records in schools. (Photo: giaoduc.net)
Hanoi (VNA)ꦕ – A database of over 24 million teachers and students,accounting for 98% of the total, has been verified and linked to the nationalpopulation database, making the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) amongthe first agencies to complete the database connection, said director of theministry's Information and Communication Technology Department Nguyen Son Hai.
Haisaid that the ministry has mostly completed its database, including data of all schools nationwide from pre-schools to high schools (nearly 53,000) with profiles of 1.6million teachers and education managers. The ministry also collected data on learning performance and healthconditions of 24 million students and its database is connected with those ofover 17,000 schools across the country. Theministry has deployed the Higher Education Management Information System (HEMIS),collecting and digitising data from 442 training establishments, more than152,000 lecturers and more than 2.1 million students as well as data onscientific research, facilities, finance, cooperation with businesses, andinternational cooperation.
Director of the MoET's Information and Communication Technology Department Nguyen Son Hai speaks about the digital transformation in education at an event. (Photo: dangcongsan.vn)
Whenorganising high school graduation and university entrance exams, essentialadministrative procedures have been carried out online. About 93% of candidatesregister online on the National Public Service Portal. More than 600,000candidates register their desired universities with about three million optionsregistered online each year. About 97% of the candidates also paid examinationfees online and 81% confirmed their university admission online. Currently,the ministry is piloting the implementation of electronic learning recordswhich helps ensure convenience in storing, managing and using school records inschools; reduce workload for teachers and make the process of managing students' learning and training results transparent. Topromote digital transformation in university education, the ministry is workingwith universities to build a shared, open online training platform (MOET-MOOC). Traininginstitutions can recognise each other's credits for online courses on thesystem. The ministry is developing and preparing to submit to the PrimeMinister for approval of a pilot project of the digital higher education model. However,according to the ministry’s official, the digital transformation in educationis facing challenges and difficulties including incomplete shared digitalresources, insufficient digital resources and limitations on informationtechnology infrastructure at schools and equipment for teachers and students, particularly those in mountainous areas. Moreover,the mobilisation of social resources to the field is not as effective asexpected, he said./.
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Currently, MoET is piloting the implementation of electronic learning records which helps ensure convenience in storing, managing and using school records in schools. (Photo: giaoduc.net) 
Director of the MoET's Information and Communication Technology Department Nguyen Son Hai speaks about the digital transformation in education at an event. (Photo: dangcongsan.vn) 
