HCM City has seen a sharp rise in the number of students, putting more pressure on many local schools which lack facilities. According to the municipal Department of Education and Training, the city’s student number would increase by 75,500 in the 2019-2020 academic year, around 9,000 higher than the last academic year. Primary students in HCM City Of the sum, secondary schools accounted for nearly 26,500 students, followed at primary level with 21,700 and then high schools and nurseries. District 7, 9 and 12 and Tan Phu, Binh Tan and Thu Duc districts experiencing rapid urbanisation saw the most drastic rise. The city is expected to have a total 2,400 schools with 46,500 classrooms and 80,800 teachers in the 2019-2020 academic year. The total student number would reach 1.7 million. By early September, around 1,500 new classrooms are scheduled to be operated, an increase of 1,200 compared to the last academic year. However, Tan Phu District, which was among those localities … [Read more...] about Student enrollment rise pressures HCM City schools
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Student-classroom ratio a challenge for HCM City schools
A kindergarten in Bình Tân District. — VNS Photo Gia Lộc HCM CITY — HCM City faces challenges in meeting the Ministry of Education and Training’s regulation on the maximum number of students in classrooms as enrolment continues to increase. The city is also finding it difficult to apportion the number of students learning during the day and those who are day boarders. Đỗ Đình Thiện, deputy chairman of Bình Tân District People’s Committee, told Việt Nam News that the number of primary school students would increase by 3,500 this year. The district is currently able to follow the ministry's regulation of 25 to 35 kids in each public kindergarten classroom because the district has many private kindergartens. "However, the district faces difficulties in ensuring the classroom-student ratio at primary schools because there are not many … [Read more...] about Student-classroom ratio a challenge for HCM City schools
170 HCM City schools compete in Milo basketball tournament
A match being played on the opening day of annual Nestle Milo Cup basketball tournament for HCM City schools on October 20. — VNS Photo One hundred seventy teams from 85 primary, secondary and high schools in HCM City are taking part in the 2018-19 Nestle Milo Cup, a city basketball tournament being held at the Phu Tho Stadium in District 11 from October 20 to November 10. Organised by the HCM City Basketball Federation and Nestle’s Milo brand annually since 2005, the event two years ago become a part of Milo’s “Active Vietnam” programme and Project 641 of the General Department of Sports and Physical Training, the city culture and sports and education and training departments, which seeks to encourage a dynamic lifestyle and physical activity, especially among children aged 6 – 17. Through the competition, Milo has gifted 320 basketball boards to primary schools to enable more children to play the sport. The company said sports and nutrition are … [Read more...] about 170 HCM City schools compete in Milo basketball tournament
HCM City’s schools face new term overcrowding
Many public schools in HCM City and Hanoi have had to stop providing lunch and allowing pupils to sleep while doubling the number of pupils per class. Pupils at Quang Trung Secondary School, HCM City, ready for new school year The Increasing population and superstitions about lucky birth years are putting huge pressure on big city schools. As the result, HCM City and Hanoi are having to deal with overcrowded public schools due to the sheer number of children born in 2003 and 2012. Statistics from HCM City Department of Education and Training show that the city will have over 1,677,000 pupils this school year. Nursery and primary schools will see more new pupils than other grades. About 14,160 pupils will enrol in the first grade this school year in Binh Tan District alone, an increase of 4,000 pupils over last year. 5,400 pupils graduated from secondary schools but up to 8,400 pupils will enrol. Ngo Van Tuyen, head of Binh Tan Department of Education and Training, said there was no … [Read more...] about HCM City’s schools face new term overcrowding
120 teams in the fray in HCM City school basketball tournament
A match in the HCM City School Festival Basketball Tournament for the Milo Cup being played at the Phú Thọ Stadium. — VNS PhotoViet Nam News HCM CITY — The 2018 HCM City School Festival Basketball Tournament for the Milo Cup began at the Phú Thọ Stadium in District 11 on Sunday with 120 teams from primary, secondary and high schools taking part. In its 13th year since inception, the number of schools has doubled. Organised by Nestle’s Milo brand and the city’s departments of Culture and Sports and Education and Training, the tournament is held as part of the “Active Vietnam” programme, which seeks to encourage a dynamic lifestyle and physical activity, especially among children aged 6 – 17. Milo has gifted 200 basketball backboards to primary schools to enable more children to play the sport. The tournament will go on until June 9. — VNS … [Read more...] about 120 teams in the fray in HCM City school basketball tournament