Vietnam: Is the official schedule for the National Day holiday on September 2, 2025 available? Are upper secondary school students entitled to days off on the National Day holiday?

Is the official schedule for the National Day holiday on September 2, 2025 available?

On December 3, 2024, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam issued Notification 6150/TB-BLDTBXH 2024 regarding the National Day holiday on September 2, 2025 applicable to Vietnamese officials and public employees and employees as follows:

- For officials and public employees: The National Day holiday in 2025 is from Saturday, August 30, 2025, to the end of Tuesday, September 2, 2025.

This holiday includes 2 days of National Day holiday and 2 weekly days off.

- For employees: Employers shall choose the National Day holiday in 2025 as Tuesday, September 2, 2025, and one of the following two days: Monday, September 1, 2025, or Wednesday, September 3, 2025.

Note: Agencies and units following the schedule for the National Day holiday 2025 shall arrange and organize teams on duty as per regulations and work reasonably to ensure work progress.

Is the official schedule for the National Day holiday on September 2, 2025 available? Are upper secondary school students in Vietnam entitled to days off on the National Day holiday? (Image from the internet)

Are upper secondary school students in Vietnam entitled to days off on the National Day holiday?

According to regulations, upper secondary school students will have time off according to the holiday schedule of upper secondary school teachers.

Article 112 of the Labor Code 2019 specifies public holidays:

Public holidays

1. Employees shall be entitled to fully paid days off on the following public holidays:

a) Gregorian Calendar New Year Holiday: 01 day (the 1st of January of the Gregorian calendar);

b) Lunar New Year Holidays: 05 days;

c) Victory Day: 01 day (the 30th of April of the Gregorian calendar);

d) International Labor Day: 01 day (the 1st of May of the Gregorian calendar);

dd) National Day: 02 days (the 2nd of September of the Gregorian calendar and the previous or next day);

e) Hung Kings Commemoration Day: 01 day (the 10th of the third month of the Lunar calendar).

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National Day is one of the major holidays on which upper secondary school students will have time off according to the law.

As per the regulations, the National Day holiday in 2025 is from Saturday, August 30, 2025, to the end of Tuesday, September 2, 2025.

*Note: Depending on the regulations and the scheduling of each school, appropriate to each locality, upper secondary school students should pay attention to announcements from their school.

What are the objectives of upper secondary education in Vietnam?

Under Article 29 of the Education Law 2019, the objectives of upper secondary education in Vietnam are as follows:

- The objectives of general education are to help learners develop comprehensively by acquiring morals, knowledge, physical health, aesthetic values and other basic skills, develop personal abilities, flexibility and creativeness, to form the socialist Vietnamese personality and the civic duty, to preparing them for further studies of higher education, vocational education or entering the workforce, participating in the building and defending of the Fatherland.

- Primary education aims to help students form initial foundations for moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic development and capacity, preparing them for entering lower secondary education.

- Lower secondary education is directed towards students' consolidation and development of the outcomes of primary education, provision of general and basic knowledge along with introductory understanding on techniques and career orientation to enter upper secondary education or vocational education.

- Upper secondary education is directed towards the provision of civic knowledge; students' consolidation and development of the outcomes of lower secondary education; completion of general education and acquisition of common understanding on techniques and career orientation; provision of opportunities for students to develop their personal abilities in order to choose their development direction, to enter higher education, vocational education or the workforce, contributing to the building and defending of the Fatherland.