Amending the regulations of the national science and technology research competition for students

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued a circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of the regulations for the National Science and Technology Research Competition for middle and high school students.

National science and technology competition projects for students must be made public. (Source: VGP)

The amendment and supplement to the regulations for organizing the Science Research Competition in high schools focuses on three main contents: project selection method; competition organization and organization at the level of participating units.

Public announcement of projects, with social supervision

The new circular stipulates that participating units must organize internal competitions to select projects to compete. This helps projects selected to participate at the national level not to be surprised and to comply with scientific integrity as well as professional ethics.

The selection and registration of competition projects must ensure scientific integrity and professional ethics. At the same time, projects selected for national competitions must be publicly announced for social supervision and to ensure honesty in research.

Along with that, the draft also adds responsibilities to the instructor: "Research instructors are responsible for scientific integrity and professional ethics in scientific research; ensuring requirements for competition projects according to the provisions of this Regulation".

The Circular also amends and supplements a number of other contents to improve the organization of the Competition, aiming at publicity, transparency and fairness, while promoting scientific and technical research to become a regular activity in high schools, promoting STEM-oriented teaching and learning.

Adjusting the calculation of the number of competing projects towards fairness

According to the new circular, the number of projects participating at the national level will be calculated based on the ratio of projects participating at the Department of Education and Training level compared to the total number of projects participating nationwide, to create fairness.

Departments of Education and Training with large scale and strong scientific research movements will be assigned a proportionate number of projects to compete at the national level, avoiding the situation of "leveling" and encouraging the development of the movement. Departments of Education and Training with less extensive movements, if they want to increase the number of projects competing at the national level, will have to invest and promote the research movement to have more representatives.

Small-scale competing units are allowed to submit a maximum of 3 projects to the national competition. Larger-scale units, depending on the proportion of projects participating at the unit level, will be allowed to register a maximum of: 6 projects if the proportion is >1% to ≤5%; 9 projects if >5% to ≤10%; 12 projects if >10%.

For the participating units being high schools under the Ministry and ministerial-level agencies, universities, colleges, institutes and academies, each unit can register a maximum of 3 projects, an increase of 1 project compared to the previous regulation.

In order to encourage the movement of localities, the new Circular stipulates that the participating unit is allowed to send one more project to the competition for each project that won the fourth prize or higher at the international competition in the previous consecutive year.

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