Good news for 100 schools in Ho Chi Minh City on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of national reunification

On April 28, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee issued Decision 1653/QD-UBND on recognizing units that meet the standards of digital schools in Ho Chi Minh City. Accordingly, 100 schools in the area have been recognized to meet this standard.

The specific list is as follows:

List of 100 recognized digital schools in Ho Chi Minh City

Previously, in December 2024, the Department of Education and Training issued an official dispatch directing the Departments of Education and Training, general schools, and affiliated units to implement the set of digital school standards.

In addition, the Department of Education and Training has proactively researched and built an information system synthesizing the results of the assessment of the digital school standards set operating at https://dti.hcm.edu.vn . The system helps collect data and evidence from specialized systems such as: Education and Training sector database,educational institution management system, teaching and learning management system, school facilities and equipment management system, etc.

Nguyen Thai Hoc Primary School (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City), one of the schools that has just been recognized as a digital school.

Based on the collected information, the system automatically synthesizes and reports the implementation results of the standards set of each unit. On February 10, 2025, the City People's Committee issued a plan to deploy the standards set for recognizing digital schools in the city. In particular, the Department of Education and Training, after the units are recognized as digital schools, will continue to synthesize the profiles of 50 typical digital school units to send to the Department of Home Affairs to organize appraisal, submit to the Standing Committee of the City People's Committee for recognition and attach a signboard to the project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025).

According to the City Department of Education and Training, after the units organized to review and compare the results on the system with specialized management systems, there were 100 units eligible for recognition as digital schools according to the decision of the City People's Committee.

What does the digital school standards set include?

According to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, the set of standards includes 6 standards: Digital institutions; digital facilities and infrastructure; digital data; digital human resources; digital governance and management; digital education.

In particular, in the digital institutional standards, all 5 criteria are mandatory conditions for educational institutions including: Schools have issued regulations on organizing online teaching and learning (clearly specifying the contents of general education programs implemented online); database management, personal data protection; network system operation and administration, information security; operation and use of electronic office systems and archives; construction, review of digital learning materials and operation and use of shared digital learning materials management systems; management and use of student monitoring and evaluation systems and digital student records; management, use and operation of school administration systems.

In addition, the school has developed and issued plans to organize online teaching and learning (including online and face-to-face teaching activities, teaching and learning integrated with digital technology in the classroom); annual plans for IT application and digital transformation. Along with that, the educational institution has developed policies and regimes for educational managers, teachers, and staff to perform tasks related to the unit's digital transformation work; has a plan to use the budget for digital transformation work at the unit; has issued a decision to establish a steering committee and working group to deploy IT application and digital transformation at the unit.

For the remaining five criteria, schools are scored based on specific criteria. Each criterion has a maximum score of 200.

In particular, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee also issued regulations on digital learning material development studios; digital classrooms (mobile or fixed); modern laboratories, STEAM laboratories, simulation experiment applications...

Source: https://nld.com.vn/tin-vui-voi-100-truong-hoc-tai-tp-hcm-dung-dip-ky-niem-50-nam-thong-nhat-dat-nuoc-196250428102117551.htm