What is the schedule for the Gregorian New Year holiday 2025 applicable to students and teachers in Ho Chi Minh City?

What is the schedule for the Gregorian New Year holiday 2025 applicable to students and teachers in Ho Chi Minh City?

On December 10, 2024, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City issued Notification 519/TB-UBND of 2024 regarding the national flag hoisting and the Gregorian New Year holiday 2025.

The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City announced the details concerning national flag hoisting and the Gregorian New Year holiday 2025 to administrative agencies, public service providers, political organizations, and socio-political organizations as follows:

(1) Officials and public employees and workers from administrative agencies, public service providers, political organizations, and socio-political organizations will have a holiday on Wednesday, January 1, 2025.

(2) Agencies, units, enterprises, schools, hospitals, armed forces units, and households are to hoist the national flag on January 1, 2025.

(3) The Chairperson of the People's Committees of Thu Duc City and districts, and heads of agencies and units shall:

- Encourage and remind the hoisting of the national flag in residential areas and units under their management; allocate personnel on duty during the holiday ensuring security, order, fire prevention, and safety for agencies, units, and public amusement sites; arrange staff to work appropriately to ensure continuous service and public welfare.

- Continue guiding, inspecting, and supervising the implementation of disease prevention and control within the localities and units under their management as per regulations.

(4) The Department of Natural Resources and Environment will take charge of and coordinate with other relevant departments, units, and the People's Committees of Thu Duc City and districts in encouraging the citizens, agencies, units, and organizations to maintain cleanliness in residential areas, markets, schools, public offices, enterprises, and roads, and beautify office areas and street-facing houses; continuously cultivate civilized urban lifestyles.

Thus, teachers and students in Ho Chi Minh City will have a one-day Gregorian New Year holiday on Wednesday, January 1, 2025.

What is the schedule for the Gregorian New Year holiday 2025 applicable to students and teachers in Ho Chi Minh City? (Image from the Internet)

What are the standards regarding qualities for upper secondary school teachers in Vietnam?

Under Article 4 of the Regulations on Professional Standards for Teachers at General Education Institutions issued together with Circular 20/2018/TT-BGDDT, the standards regarding qualities for upper secondary school teachers are as follows:

(1) Comply with regulations and practice teacher’s ethics; share experience, support colleagues in practice of ethics and making of virtues

(2) Criterion 1. Ethics

+ Qualified: The teacher complies with regulations on ethics

+ Good: The teacher has the spirit of self-study, self-training and attempts to improve moral qualities;

+ Excellent: The teacher is a role model in terms of ethics, shares experience, support colleagues in practice of ethics

(2) Criterion 2. Virtue

+ Qualified: The teacher has manner and method of working in conformity with works;

+ Good: The teacher has awareness of self-training to create an exemplary virtue; great influence on students;

+ Excellent: The teacher is a role model in terms of virtues, has great influence and support colleagues in making of virtues.

What are the duties of an upper secondary school teacher in Vietnam?

According to regulations in Article 27 of the lower secondary school, upper secondary school and multi-level school charter issued together with Circular 32/2020/TT-BGDDT, teachers have the following duties:

- Organize teaching and educational activities according to education plans of the school and specialized teams; manage students in educational activities organized by the school; participate in professional activities; and take responsibility for educational quality and effectiveness.

- Foster moral values, uphold spirit of responsibility, preserve virtues, honor and reputation of the teacher; display exemplary behaviors in front of students; love and treat students with fairness, and respect students' personalities; protect student's legitimate rights and interest; and cooperate with and support fellow teachers.

- Learn and train continuously to improve their health, political qualifications, and professional qualifications and knowledge, reform teaching and educational methods.

- Participate in refresher and training courses.

- Take part in local universalization of lower secondary education.

- Fulfill civic duties, comply with regulations of law and the education sector, and the principal’s decisions; perform tasks assigned by the principal and be subject to inspection and assessment by the principal and education authorities.

- Cooperate with the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneer Organization, Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Vietnam Youth Federation, students’ families and relevant social organizations in educational activities.

- Perform other duties as prescribed by law.