Amending the regulations on scientific and technical research competitions for high school students

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued Circular No. 24/2025/TT-BGD&DT amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulations on the National Science and Technology Research Competition for middle and high school students issued together with Circular No. 06/2024/TT-BGD&DT, dated April 10, 2024 of the Minister of Education and Training.

The amendment and supplement to Circular 06 focuses on three main contents, including: Methods of selecting projects to compete in the National Competition; issues related to the organization of the Competition and issues related to the organization of the Competition at the level of the participating unit.

Public announcement of projects, with social supervision

Implementing Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW of the Politburo on breakthroughs in education and training development; Resolution No. 202/2025/QH15 dated June 12, 2025 of the National Assembly on the arrangement of provincial-level administrative units; Resolution 74/NQ-CP of the Government on the plan to implement the arrangement of administrative units and build a 2-level local government organization model, the supplementation and amendment of the Competition Regulations issued in Circular No. 06/2024/TT-BGD&DT dated April 10, 2024 to meet changes and requirements of practice becomes necessary.

Accordingly, the amendment of regulations on organizing competitions at the unit level is aimed at the competition units having to select their projects through the competition organization form, applying the promulgated Regulations. This helps the projects selected to participate at the national level not to be surprised when participating in the Competition.

Units are also required to improve the integrity of scientific research by specifying requirements such as publicly announcing selected competition projects to participate at the national level, and clarifying the responsibilities of scientific research instructors.

Although this has been stipulated before, in the Circular amending and supplementing Circular 06, this content is emphasized more and included in specific subjects to enhance scientific integrity in scientific and technical research. Competition projects are selected to participate at the national level when publicly announced, ensuring social supervision and ensuring honesty in research.

The Circular also amends and supplements a number of other contents to improve the organization of the Competition, aiming to make the organization more public, transparent and fair in order to further promote the making of scientific and technical research a regular activity in general schools, promoting teaching and learning in the direction of developing STEM science and technology to meet the requirements of preparing human resources for national development in accordance with the orientation of the Party and State.

Adjusting the calculation of the number of competing projects towards fairness

In the Circular amending and supplementing Circular 06, the calculation of the number of projects participating in the national competition is based on the ratio of the number of projects participating in the Department of Education and Training competition compared to the total number of projects participating in the competition of the Department of Education and Training nationwide. This regulation aims to make the Competition more fair.

Accordingly, the Departments of Education and Training with good scale and competition movement will be assigned a proportionate number of projects to compete in the National Competition, avoiding leveling and not really encouraging the movement. Departments of Education and Training that do not have a widespread movement, if they want to increase the number of projects competing at the national level, will have to consider encouraging and promoting the movement to have more representatives at the national level.

Circular amending and supplementing Circular 06 stipulates that small-scale competition units are allowed to nominate a maximum of 3 projects to compete at the national level. Larger-scale units, with a project participation rate at the unit level greater than 1% and less than or equal to 5%, will be allowed to register a maximum of 6 projects; with a project participation rate greater than 5% and less than or equal to 10%, will be allowed to register a maximum of 9 projects; with a project participation rate greater than 10%, will be allowed to register a maximum of 12 projects.

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 competition projects, an increase of 1 project compared to the previous regulations in Circular 06.

In order to encourage the movement of localities, the Circular amending and supplementing Circular 06 stipulates that the participating unit is allowed to send 1 more project to the competition for each project that won the 4th prize or higher at the international competition in the previous year.

To ensure stability, the Circular amending and supplementing Circular 06 has transitional conditions for the 2025-2026 school year Competition. The number of competition projects of the competition units is the Department of Education and Training after the merger of provinces and cities. The maximum number of competition projects is the total number of competition projects of the competition units before the merger.

See detailed regulations HERE.

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