Ninh Binh City actively implements online primary school enrollment

The 2023-2024 school year is the first year that the Departmentof Education and Training (DoET) of Ninh Binh city has implemented online primary school enrollment for students in grades 1 and 6. With many outstanding advantages, such as helping to save costs, replace paper records, reduce waiting time, ensure fairness, accuracy, increase transparency, online primary school enrollment has been and is being responded to and trusted by many parents.

Conducting a trial following the instructions for online registration for her child to enter grade 1 at Ly Tu Trong Primary School, Ms. Tran Thi Mai Anh, Phuc Thanh Ward ( Ninh Binh City) said that she found the process convenient and did not encounter any difficulties. After a few minutes, Ms. Mai Anh was able to complete the registration for her child right on her smartphone at home.

According to Ms. Mai Anh, she highly appreciates this policy of the Education sector, because in the current information technology era, the application of online enrollment methods should be implemented and promoted, towards everyone becoming a digital citizen following the trend of modern society.

"I myself do business at home, have used the online environment in many stages, from contacting, transacting, transferring money for business items, so I support this form of enrollment. Through that, I can be flexible with my time, easily look up, check to adjust information in my child's profile when I find missing or incorrect information. Registering for enrollment online like this also demonstrates transparency in receiving applications from schools, ensuring fairness and publicity for all students, helping parents to be proactive and monitor...." - Ms. Mai Anh affirmed.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Anh, Vice Principal of Ly Tu Trong Primary School, said: In order to mobilize the maximum number of children of the prescribed age in Phuc Thanh ward to study in grade 1; the school's grade 1 enrollment is carried out by the selection method. Parents register online through the primary enrollment system coordinated by the Department of Education and Training with the software provider ( VNPT Ninh Binh): http://ninhbinh.tsdc.vnedu.vn. In case parents are not eligible to register online, they can register directly at the school. The school's enrollment council supports parents in entering enrollment information into the online software.

In the 2023-2024 school year, Ly Tu Trong Primary School plans to enroll 280 students, with 7-8 classes. The enrollment target is children born from January 2017 to December 2017 and residing in Phuc Thanh ward. For children not in the enrollment area who want to study in grade 1 at the school, the Admissions Council will consider and accept them in the following order of priority: Children of war invalids and martyrs; children of policy families; poor and near-poor households; disabled, disadvantaged children... whose father or mother is working in the armed forces; working in agencies and units of the province or city located in Phuc Thanh ward. Enrollment is strictly implemented according to the guidance documents of management levels, and is consistent with the school's development plan.

According to the plan, from July 5, the school has established the school's Admissions Council; organized propaganda to the people and parents about the admissions work, especially the plan to divide classes, arrange classes, and assign homeroom teachers. Prepared conditions for offices, stationery; ballot boxes for drawing lots for homeroom teachers of grade 1; computers, printers, etc.

From July 17 to 20, the school will organize official enrollment registration through online enrollment and in-person enrollment for those who cannot register online. On July 21-22, the school will compile a list of admitted students and report to the Department of Education and Training on the class placement plan. Then, the list of admitted students, class division plan, list of homeroom teachers for grade 1, etc. will be publicly announced, posted on the bulletin board and posted on the school's website.

Ninh Binh City actively implements online primary school enrollment — The online application process is announced and specifically guided on the school's website.

Although this is the first year of online enrollment, according to school representatives, this form of enrollment has favorable conditions and has been prepared in advance. Accordingly, Ninh Binh city and schools all have a stable technology platform and Internet network. Teachers, staff and parents have access to and are proficient in digital technology.

In addition, since the end of the previous school year, related units such as VNPT and the Department of Education and Training have closely coordinated and determined to achieve high results. In particular, the vnedu Enrollment software is designed to ensure the requirements set out, easy to use and quick to operate for the implementer. Thereby, helping the school easily determine the permanent and temporary residence addresses of students to advise parents to register their children in the correct prescribed area.

Mr. Nguyen Van Thu, Deputy Director of Information Technology Center, VNPT Ninh Binh said: Determining the application of information technology in online enrollment is a specific activity to gradually accelerate the digital transformation process, helping to save costs, replace paper records, reduce time, ensure fairness, accuracy, increase transparency, and create trust for parents, VNPT has closely coordinated with the Department of Education and Training of Ninh Binh city to organize training for schools and staff working in enrollment.

During the implementation process, the homeroom teachers will update all necessary information, provide passwords and specific instructions to parents through class zalo groups. Parents have 10 days to get familiar with the software and test it before officially registering. During that time, VNPT Ninh Binh is always on hand to support and handle situations promptly, the system operates stably, to avoid network congestion.

In particular, to support parents in registering for online admission, schools in Ninh Binh city have arranged waiting rooms, computers connected to the internet, teachers on duty... with the support of VNPT Ninh Binh to be able to provide timely support, creating maximum convenience for parents and students.

According to the plan for enrolling preschool children, first and sixth graders in the 2013-2024 school year in Ninh Binh city, by June 24, secondary schools in the city had received and completed 100% of enrollment applications for sixth grade, and on June 27, they arranged classes and assigned homeroom teachers, ensuring the correct progress and quality as set out.

For primary school, online registration will be held from July 17 to 22, and on July 25, classes will be arranged and homeroom teachers will be assigned. The school will approve the enrollment results on July 26, then report the results to the Department of Education and Training of Ninh Binh city.

According to the representative of the Department of Education and Training of Ninh Binh City, in the era of strong Internet development, the use of online public services is an inevitable trend, reducing pressure on schools and families during each enrollment season. Of course, with new and first-time implementation, there are inevitably difficulties and shortcomings. However, it is necessary to actively promote and mobilize parents to understand, respond and agree to participate, creating convenience and synchronization for the following school years. Thereby contributing to the gradual digital transformation in the education and training sector.

Article and photos: Huy Hoang

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