HCMC: Rewarding 929 teachers and students with outstanding achievements in the 2024-2025 school year

Vice Chairwoman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Tran Thi Dieu Thuy and Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training Nguyen Van Hieu presented certificates of merit to students with excellent achievements in the 2024-2025 school year.

Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Bao Quoc said that the education and training sector of Ho Chi Minh City identifies the work of discovering and nurturing excellent and gifted students as one of the particularly important tasks, and at the same time a key strategy contributing to improving the quality of human resources.

To carry out that task, educational institutions have enhanced innovation in teaching and learning methods, integrated information technology, improved the quality of comprehensive education; promoted the role of specialized schools, focused on developing the talents, qualities and outstanding abilities of students studying specialized subjects; created all favorable conditions for teachers to participate in nurturing excellent students.

"However, the recent results of the excellent student exam show that there is no uniformity between departments, units and regions, demonstrating the lack of sustainability in training excellent students," said Nguyen Bao Quoc, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training.

With the achievements, Vice Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Tran Thi Dieu Thuy said that teachers and students have affirmed the prestige of the quality of education of Ho Chi Minh City in particular and Vietnam in general in the international arena. The city leaders congratulated and praised the sense of responsibility and determination of the team in the whole industry.

“It can be said that the strategy to turn Ho Chi Minh City into a high-quality education and training center of the country and Southeast Asia is on the right track. However, the number of specialized schools and gifted schools is currently not commensurate with the total number of students in the area. I propose that the education sector continue to pay attention, create conditions, advise and propose to the city's leaders to develop a number of schools following the specialized school model, especially in the fields of culture and arts, contributing to building the city into a cultural industrial center of the country,” proposed comrade Tran Thi Dieu Thuy.

On this occasion, the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee awarded certificates of merit to 929 individuals with outstanding achievements in the 2024-2025 school year.

Of which, 2 students received certificates of merit for their excellent achievements at the International Science and Technology Research Competition for high school students in the 2024-2025 school year and 1 student won a Silver Medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 2025.

In addition, the list of awarded students also includes 235 students with excellent achievements in the National High School Excellent Student Competition; 22 students with excellent achievements in the National Science and Technology Research Competition for high school students; 15 students with excellent achievements in the 7th National "Students with Startup Ideas" Competition for the 2024-2025 school year.

At the city level, 401 students won first prizes in the city-level excellent student competition for the 2024-2025 school year; 40 students won first prizes in the city-level excellent student competition for solving math problems on handheld calculators; 24 students won first prizes in the city-level science and technology research competition for high school students; 7 students won first prizes in the city-level excellent student competition for solving math problems on handheld calculators for continuing education; 36 students won first prizes in the city-level excellent student competition for grades 9 and 12 for continuing education, and 10 students won first prizes in the city-level "Students with startup ideas" competition.

For teachers, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee awarded certificates of merit to 22 teachers who won first prize at the city-level competition for preschool teachers, teachers of continuing education centers, vocational education centers - continuing education centers with excellent teaching skills, and 114 teachers who directly trained and nurtured students who won prizes at national competitions in the 2024-2025 school year.

Source: https://ttbc-hcm.gov.vn/tphcm-khen-thuong-929-giao-vien-hoc-sinh-co-thanh-tich-xuat-sac-trong-nam-hoc-2024-2025-1019362.html