Basic administrative procedures in education turned online

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 – A database of over 24 million teachers and students, accounting for 98 per cent 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.

Hai said 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 1.6 million teachers and education managers.

The ministry also collected data on learning performance and health conditions of 24 million students and its database is connected with those of over 17,000 schools across the country.

The ministry has deployed the Higher Education Management Information System (HEMIS), collecting and digitising data from 442 training establishments, more than 152,000 lecturers and more than 2.1 million students as well as data on scientific research, facilities, finance, cooperation with businesses, and international cooperation.

When organising high school graduation and university entrance exams, essential administrative procedures have been carried out online. About 93 per cent of candidates register online on the National Public Service Portal. More than 600,000 candidates register their desired universities with about three million options registered online each year. About 97 per cent of the candidates also paid examination fees online and 81 per cent confirmed their university admission online.

Currently, the ministry is piloting the implementation of electronic learning records which helps ensure convenience in storing, managing and using school records in schools; reduce workload for teachers and make the process of managing students' learning and training results transparent.

To promote digital transformation in university education, the ministry is working with universities to build a shared, open online training platform (MOET-MOOC).

Training institutions can recognise each other's credits for online courses on the system. The ministry is developing and preparing to submit to the Prime Minister for approval of a pilot project of the digital higher education model.

However, according to the ministry’s official, the digital transformation in education is facing challenges and difficulties including incomplete shared digital resources, insufficient digital resources and limitations on information technology 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 as expected, he said.

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