Outstanding ethnic students in 2017 honoured

These students won prizes at national competitions, obtained high results at university entrance exams or won medals at international sports competitions over the past school year.  They come from 26 ethnic minority groups from 50 out of 63 provinces and cities.

Addressing the ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh reiterated the Party and State’s consistent policies of giving top priority to education and science and technology development. He added that the Government has set many preferential policies for education and training, especially in remote and ethnic areas.

He asked the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Training to continue reviewing, studying and consulting the Government with supplementary policies for the development of ethnic minority human resources; whilst urging all levels of Party organisations, authorities and unions to give continuous material and spiritual care for teachers and students in remote areas and islands, and create favourable conditions for the development of the educational sector in ethnic-inhabited and mountainous regions

Earlier, Standing Vice Chairwoman of National Assembly Tong Thi Phong also had a meeting with the outstanding ethnic students. She expressed her belief that they would later contribute to national development and global integration./.