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Hanoi’s education department asks students to wear masks from home to school

by hanoitimes.vn

The Hanoitimes – Director of Hanoi’s Department of Education and Training Chu Xuan Dung has asked all schools in the city to strictly comply with with the Government’s regulations on COVID-19 prevention and control.

Hanoi’s Department of Education and Training has required schools at all levels to increase their application of technology in preventing COVID-19, including using the application “Safe COVID-19”.

Pupils wear masks and have their temperatures measured before entering a school. Source: kinhtedothi.vn

Director of Hanoi’s Department of Education and Training Chu Xuan Dung has asked all schools in the city to strictly comply with with the Government’s regulations on COVID-19 prevention and control.

Vietnamese university bloc allows students to study for bachelor’s, master’s degrees simultaneously

by tuoitrenews.vn

The Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City (VNU) has announced a new policy allowing outstanding undergraduates to start taking master’s courses in the third and fourth years of their first-degree program so as to finish both levels at the same time.

It is one of the two largest national university groups in Vietnam and consists of six member universities and one institute, in addition to a publishing house, centers, and other research units.

Students pursuing a bachelor’s degree at one of the member universities of the VNU will be allowed to study for a master’s degree before finishing the undergraduate program, shortening the time needed to complete both.

According to Associate Professor Vu Hai Quan, VNU vice-director, this regulation is only applied to students of the member universities and institutes but it is not applicable to participants in joint programs run with foreign universities, most of which would later require the enrollees to study abroad.

Students of honors programs are also eligible to pursue a master’s degree along with a bachelor’s degree.

Currently, an official duration of the new program ranges from 4.5 to 5.5 years, in comparison with the usual undergraduate program that usually takes from 4 to 5 years.

According to the current regulation, students are allowed to prolong their studies by up to 36 months.

According to the VNU’s graduate department, undergraduate students in the third or fourth year of college with outstanding academic performance can apply for master’s degree courses, instead of having to take an exam before starting graduate school.

To qualify for application, students have to attain a minimum GPA of 7.0 out of 10 and are pursuing a suitable major.

However, the number of undergraduates accepted into graduate programs cannot exceed 50 percent of the graduate school’s enrollment quota.

Assoc. Prof. Quan emphasized that the new two-degree program allowing students to graduate with a bachelor’s and master’s degree needs to be updated regularly in order to conform to VNU regulations.

The VNU intends to design another program permitting students to graduate with a double bachelor’s degree from two different majors.

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HCMC-based schools strengthen monitoring on Covid-19-related students, parents

by sggpnews.org.vn

Accordingly, the Department of Education and Training requires educational institutions to take measures to strengthen the prevention and control of the Covid-19 pandemic when students return to school after the Tet holidays.

Specifically, educational institutions must continue to strictly follow the Official Letter No.309/SGDDT-CTTT released on February 1, 2021, on the closure of schools to ensure the prevention and fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The heads of these units must assign staffs to be on duty, liaise, and connect with staffs, teachers, employees, students, and parents of students during Tet holidays, especially, constantly update cases of staffs, teachers, employees, students, and parents of students who are F0, F1, and F2 or people living in isolated and blocked areas because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Schools must conduct medical declarations for all staffs, teachers, employees, and students in the city on the first day when they return to schools after Lunar New Year, and at the same time, report the number of staffs, teachers, employees, students, and parents of students going to other provinces during the period from February 2 to 16.

Educational institutions must make regular, timely, and accurate reports following the principle that education institutions grasp information of students and their parents from homeroom teachers and directly hold information of staffs, teachers, and employees to report to the Education and Training Department of districts and Thu Duc City as a basis to summarize the report to send to the HCMC Department of Education and Training.

The reporting will begin from the fourth day of the first month in the lunar calendar (February 15) before 10 a.m. every day.

The content of the report includes a list of staffs, employees, teachers, students, and parents of students, who are F0, F1, F2 cases and those who live in isolated and blocked areas, or have visited provinces and cities outside HCMC from February 2 to the reporting date.

By Thu Tam – Translated by Bao Nghi

Hanoi allows students to return to school next month

by tuoitrenews.vn

K-12 students in Hanoi will be back to school next Tuesday, while university students and learners of other educational institutions will return the following week.

According to the decision of the municipal People’s Committee, K-12 students will return to school on March 2, while university students and other learners will resume their normal classes on March 8.

The city’s Department of Education and Training, Department of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs, and Department of Health were tasked with carrying out COVID-19 prevention and control measures to prepare for the back-to-school dates.

Local schools have been required to disinfect all classrooms and facilities prior to March 1, as well as preparing soap, hand sanitizer, face masks, and electronic thermometers to ensure safety for students, teachers, and staff members.

The Hanoi administration previously ordered all students to switch to remote learning from February 17 until the end of the month due to the complicated COVID-19 pandemic.

As the city has not documented any local infection for multiple days, the municipal Department of Education and Training proposed that students be allowed to go back to school in early March.

The city is also expected to lift a lockdown on the final location on March 1.

Vietnam has recorded 2,423 COVID-19 cases as of Sunday morning, with 1,844 recoveries and 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

A total of 837 community-based infections have been reported in the country since January 27.

Among them, 35 were detected in Hanoi.

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Education sector contributes significantly to Hanoi’s achievements

by hanoitimes.vn

The Hanoitimes – The Hanoi Department of Education and Training needs to promote the achieved results.

Education and training sector makes an important contribution to the performance of Hanoi’s general tasks, Kinh te & Do thi quoted Standing Deputy Secretary of municipal Party Committee Nguyen Thi Tuyen as saying on November 19.

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee Nguyen Thi Tuyen congratulates the Hanoi Department of Education and Training on the occasion of Vietnam Teachers’ Day (November 20). Photo: Pham Hung/Kinhtedothi.vn

Ms. Tuyen made the statement when congratulating officials, civil servants and teachers of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training on the 38th anniversary of Vietnam Teachers’ Day (November 20, 1982-2020).

The city’s education and training sector is taking care of over two million students, Ms. Tuyen said, adding that municipal Department of Education and Training needs to promote the achieved results, and continues to strive in developing Hanoi’s education and training enterprise.

Besides, the sector needs to build a contingent of excellent teachers, train good students and enhance scientific research to cement Hanoi’s leading position in the country’s education and training, science and technology, Ms. Tuyen stressed.

She appreciated the results and efforts of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training in developing the city’s education and training sector.

On behalf of Hanoi’s leaders, Standing Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee Nguyen Thi Tuyen sent her best wishes to staff of the municipal Department of Education and Training and all teachers in the city on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of Vietnamese Teachers’ Day.

For his part, Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training Chu Xuan Dung thanked the city’s leaders for their care.

The department will concretize the city’s education and training plans and action programs and implement them to further improve the quality of the sector, Mr. Dung said.

Hanoi students win three gold medals at 16th IJSO

by hanoitimes.vn

The Hanoitimes – Three gold medal winners are all 10th-grade students of Hanoi Amsterdam High School for the Gifted.

Hanoi students representing Vietnam bagged three gold medals at the 16th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO 2019) that ended on December 12 in Doha, Qatar, according to the municipal Department of Education and Training.

Three gold medal winners are Dam Gia Bao, Nguyen Tri Duc and Cao Thuy An, all 10th-grade students of Hanoi Amsterdam High School for the Gifted.

Vietnamese students win three gold medals and three silver medals at the 16th IJSO. Photo: infonet

Besides, other Vietnamese students who won three silver medals at were Dang Minh Trung and Nguyen Hoang Trung, 10th-grade students of Hanoi Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, and Nguyen Dinh Hieu, 10th-grade student of Hanoi’s Nguyen Hue High School.

This is the 9th year the Hanoi Department of Education and Training was assigned by the Ministry of Education and Training and the municipal People’s Committee to select and set up a national team representing the country at the IJSO.

The prestigious IJSO exam is an annual individual and team competition in natural sciences for students who are under sixteen.

The 16th IJSO was co-organized by Qatar’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education and Qatar University from December 2 to 12, under the slogan ‘Inspiring Today’s Young Generation for the Skills of Tomorrow’.

A total of 326 students aged 15 years and younger, from more than 50 countries around the world, have met during the 16th IJSO to test their knowledge and skills in physics, biology and chemistry. They took part in three tests including a multiple-choice, theoretical and practical tests.

Every year, the contest is held in a different country with the purpose of creating a competition of knowledge, encouraging students to approach practical scientific knowledge around the world. The first IJSO was held in 2004 in Jakarta, Indonesia.