How many days does the Lunar New Year Holiday 2025 applicable to students in Ho Chi Minh City last?
How many days does the Lunar New Year Holiday 2025 applicable to students in Ho Chi Minh City last?
On the afternoon of December 12, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City approved the proposal of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City to extend the Lunar New Year Holiday 2025 for students by 2 additional days. According to the document, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City decided to adjust the Lunar New Year Holiday 2025 for preschool education, general education, and continuing education in Ho Chi Minh City.
Specifically, students will have a Lunar New Year Holiday from January 23, 2025, to the end of February 2, 2025 (from the 24th day of the 12th lunar month to the 5th day of the first lunar month).
Thus, students in Ho Chi Minh City will get 2 more days off for the Lunar New Year Holiday compared to the decision outlined in the 2024-2025 academic year framework. The 11-day Lunar New Year Holiday for students in Ho Chi Minh City in 2025 helps families, especially those with relatives living far away, have more time to reunite and strengthen connections.
Previously, the Lunar New Year Holiday for students in Ho Chi Minh City in 2025, as outlined in the 2024-2025 academic year framework, was projected to start from January 25, 2025 (26th day of the 12th lunar month) to the end of February 2, 2025 (5th day of the first lunar month). Specifically, the 2024-2025 academic year framework in Ho Chi Minh City was officially issued in Decision 3089/QD-UBND of 2024 as follows:
How many days does the Lunar New Year Holiday 2025 applicable to students in Ho Chi Minh City last? (Image from the Internet)
What are the requirements for the general education program in Vietnam?
Under Article 31 of Education Law 2019, the general education program must ensure the following requirements:
- Reflect the objectives of general education;
- Concretize the requirements on the outcomes of students’ quality and capacity after each educational level and on the educational contents compulsory to all students throughout the country;
- Concretize the requirements on the methods and forms of organizing educational activities and on the evaluation of educational outcomes for subjects of each class and educational level of general education.
- Be consistent throughout the country and implemented flexibly, suitable with specific conditions of localities and institutions of general education;
- Be open to feedbacks from organisations and individuals and undergo a pilot implementation before promulgation; be publicly announced after promulgation.
What are the rights of students in Vietnam when attending school?
Under Article 83 of Education Law 2019, students attending school have the following rights:
1. Receive education and training so as to develop comprehensively and realize their potentials to the fullest.
2. Receive respect; equal opportunities in education and learning; to have their talents, gifts, creations and inventions developed; to receive full information concerning their own learning and training.
3. Have the possibility of leaping grades, shortening programme duration, learning at an age higher than regulated, extending programme duration or repeating class, be enabled to learn educational programmes as prescribed by law.
4. Learn in a safe and healthy educational environment.
5. Be awarded degrees/diplomas or certificates after completing educational levels, training qualifications or completing educational programmes as prescribed by law.
6. Participate in collective activities in educational institutions in accordance with the law.
7. Use infrastructure, libraries, equipment and facilities assigned to learning, cultural, sporting, athletic activities at educational institutions.
8. Submit, directly or through their legal representatives, to educational institutions measures for the improvement of educational institutions, to protect learners' rights and interests.
9. Benefit from preferential State policies in recruitment into State agencies upon graduation with excellent records and good conduct.
10. Elect representatives for school council as prescribed by law.
