New school year: Ho Chi Minh City digitizes student data, Hanoi prevents overcharging

In the 2024-2025 school year, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training will implement a roadmap to digitize all student information data, gradually preparing to pilot schools using English as a second language.

After the first year of piloting the implementation of digital report cards for 132,000 first-grade students, in the 2024-2025 school year, digital report cards will continue to be deployed for grade 6, while digitizing all report card data of primary and secondary school students. In the 2025-2026 school year, digital report cards will be deployed for grade 10 and digitizing all report card data of high school students. Digital report cards have the same legal value as paper report cards and are used to replace paper report cards in administrative procedures related to students' learning activities.

The 2024-2025 school year is the final year of the first journey of the new general education program.

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At the conference to deploy the new school year tasks of Ho Chi Minh City held in mid-August, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong suggested: "Ho Chi Minh City is the economic locomotive not only of the country but also of the region, the English proficiency of students must be on par with the region and the world. With the achievements that have been achieved, Ho Chi Minh City must have higher requirements, more demands. How can Ho Chi Minh City have the earliest and most schools using English as a second language in the country?"

In response to the above directive proposal, Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, said that in the 2024-2025 school year, the Department will immediately start drafting criteria for making English the second language in schools. After completing the criteria, the education sector will pilot it in a number of schools, expected to start in the 2025-2026 school year.

In the new school year, Mr. Tran The Cuong, Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, said: Right at the beginning of the school year, the Department of Education and Training will coordinate with the Department of Finance to issue documents guiding the collection and expenditure in schools at all levels, so that they are public, transparent, collect correctly and fully, and any unauthorized fees will not be collected. The principal or leader of the educational institution must be responsible to the management unit, and will even be transferred to the investigation agency for handling if violations are discovered or overcharging occurs in the school.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training stated that the parents' association is only allowed to collect fees directly serving the activities of the parents' association, and is not allowed to collect the following 7 fees: protecting school facilities, ensuring school security; supervising students' vehicles; cleaning classrooms, cleaning schools; rewarding school administrators, teachers, and staff.

Do not collect from parents to purchase machinery, equipment, and learning materials for schools, classrooms, or for school administrators, teachers, and staff; support management, organization of teaching and learning, and educational activities; repair, upgrade, and construct new school facilities.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/nam-hoc-moi-tphcm-so-hoa-du-lieu-hoc-sinh-ha-noi-ngan-chan-lam-thu-18524090500434569.htm