Q: This year’s World Radio Day is themed “Radio – A path to
knowledge”. What do you think about Vietnam’s broadcasters helping
people access knowledge through education?
A: Your question comes at very good
moment because Vietnam is moving forward with developing the learning
society and framework has been recently approved for that. There is a
steering committee which involves many ministries working together. The
goal of the learning society is that everybody has access to learning
opportunity everywhere and at all time. It sounds like a difficult thing
to do but it is not that difficult. There are many countries that we
are using as references who have been able to move forward. We are using
references for example Singapore, South Korea, Japan and we are doing
to see which of there areas that they have been developing are
interesting for Vietnam that we can adopt them and also create their own
exercise of Vietnam. But very important role for the process is the
media, mechanism for communication. Because we always think of
education as we have to go to school and course. Basically education is
carried out at schools. But a lot of education is carried out at home
and parents need to learn more in order to educate their children.
Education is starting in much earlier age of life right now so that we
have early program that parents can be more aware. We are talking about
life-learning which means learning from all aspects of your life. So to
do this, people need to learn new things. Then we need programs in
different sectors that we want them to be aware of. So the best way to
educate them is make mechanism for communication. We have been working
with the Ministry of Education and Training in supporting the community
learning centre and supporting education through museums and pagodas and
in different sectors. But the media plays a very important role and
ensure that everyone will have access to the information and education.
And for UNESCO, the celebration of the
World Radio Day is about that. It is about bringing the world to the
Radio. Radio is something that people have for so many generations to
have access to information, to hear stories, to hear news to be updated.
The Radio is very important nowadays, for example when there is an
emergent situation, to guide the population on what to do, to alert the
people for example in the storm. So the Radio really plays an important
role in many places. It is the only way to access the information that
people have and of course the Radio is the one that has the ability to
be able to conduct programs for specialized groups. So one of the thing
that we are trying to do here today is bring back that feeling that we
need to support Radio programs. The Radio is the wonderful tool to bring
education and information to people. And you can see the Radio as a
very important mechanism for people to voice themselves. Women, youth,
and children are able to have programs on the Radio where they have
debate, where they can have dialogue, and other different ways of
sharing information in a very fun way. There are lots of Radio program
for youth. So your question comes at a very important moment. World
Radio Day is about making Radio need us and we need the Radio. And that
Radio is a really important tool. So that’s what we are trying to
promote in relevant to the learning society.
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(Source : Voice of Vietnam)
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