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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
IN 2023

The education and training sector synchronously implemented key tasks
and basic solution groups in implementing tasks for the 2023-2024 school
year. The education and training career developed comprehensively, focused
on effectively implementing the 2018 general education program according to
the roadmap, completed compilation of local educational documents for
grades 4, 8, and 11 to submit to the Ministry of Education and Training for
approval. The quality of comprehensive education and key education for
students in the province was maintained, consolidated and increasingly
improved in the spirit of innovation. The gap in educational quality between
the urban, rural and disadvantaged areas was increasingly narrowing. The
province successfully organized the national high school exam in 2023 with
the overall graduation rate of the entire province of 98.79% (up 0.36%

compared to 2022). In addition, at the national 12th grade excellent student
exam, Binh Dinh province had 36 students with prizes. The implementation
of the new General Education Program continued to be promoted and
achieved positive results. To date, the whole province had 415 per 627
schools meeting national standards, a rate of 66.2%.

In the school year 2023-2024, there were 627 schools in the province, of
which 219 kindergartens; 204 primary schools; 142 lower secondary schools; 52
upper secondary schools; 6 primary and lower secondary schools; 3 lower and
upper secondary schools; 1 escalator school. At the beginning of the school year
2023-2024, the number of preschool teachers was 4,262, a year-on-year increase
of 5.3%; the number of classroom teachers was 13,172, down 2.1%, including
6,126 primary school teachers, down 3.9%; 4,663 lower secondary school
teachers, up 0.4% and 2,383 upper secondary school teachers, down 2.3%.

In the school year 2023-2024, there were 59,300 children attending
kindergartens in the province, a year-on-year decrease of 0.1%; 276,320
general pupils, including: 124,338 primary school pupils, a drop of 2.9%;

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