Abstract
Education is a basic right of people and everyone has the right to access to education. The right is stated in Clause 1, Article 26 of 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In Vietnam, the Constitution passed by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 2013 also stipulates that education is a right of people and the State, families and the society must protect, take care of and educate children. To ensure children’s right to access to education as well as to enable them to access to learning opportunities, Vietnam has promulgated many policies to create favorable conditions for all children in education, especially those from poor families and ethnic minority families in the past years. However, compared to children from well-off families, children from poor families in ethnic minority regions still face difficulties in education. Based on statistics, this article focuses on analyzing the opportunities to access to general education of children from poor families in ethnic minority regions in Vietnam nowadays.
Highlights
Education always plays a very important role in promoting the socio-economic development of all countries and communities, especially in the context of the vigorous development of science and technology at present
Vietnam has promulgated many policies and programs regarding to education and created opportunities to access to education for children living in poor households in ethnic minority areas and it is possible to mention about three main groups of policies namely 1/ A group of policies related to scholarships and tuition fee exemptions and meal and accommodation allowances, etc.; 2/ A group of policies related to infrastructure construction and teacher development; 3/ A group of policies related to universal education
In Vietnam, together with tuition fee exemption policies, investment policies for building infrastructures for general education such as schools, classrooms and teaching and learning materials in poor localities in ethnic minority areas in the past time help children living there have more opportunities to access to education
Summary
Education always plays a very important role in promoting the socio-economic development of all countries and communities, especially in the context of the vigorous development of science and technology at present. Recognizing education’s important role towards its socio-economic development and human development, Vietnam has promulgated many education policies to create opportunities for all its people to access to education, including children from poor households over the past years. From the perspective of human development, limitations in access to education affect on one’s education improvement and awareness and on his opportunities to access to high-income jobs and on his physical fitness due to lack of knowledge about nutrition and healthcare. Children in poor households we analyze in the paper are those living in the communes under the Program 135 (Note 2)
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