Strengthening the conditions to ensure the implementation of the 2024-2025 academic year’s tasks in Vietnam

Strengthening the conditions to ensure the implementation of the 2024-2025 academic year’s tasks in Vietnam

On September 4, 2024, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam issued Directive 31/CT-TTg in 2024 on enhancing the conditions to ensure effective implementation of the tasks for the 2024-2025 school year.

To effectively implement the tasks of the 2024-2025 school year with the motto: "Students as the center; Teachers as the motivation; Schools as the support; Families as the foundation; Society as the platform," the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam requires the Ministry of Education and Training and relevant Ministries, agencies, and the People's Committees of provinces and centrally governed cities to focus on performing several tasks, particularly for the Ministry of Education and Training:

Focus on reviewing, amending, supplementing, and completing mechanisms and policies, and submitting them to competent authorities for issuance, and issuing them according to authority to create a legal corridor for further improving the quality of education, training, especially the quality of teachers at all educational and training institutions, both public and non-public.

Additionally, directives and guidance should be provided to localities to:

Continue reviewing, arranging the network of educational institutions for preschool, general, continuing, and special education; reasonably adjust the class size; reduce scattered school points, ensuring the most convenience for children, students, and the public; in line with the actual conditions of the regions, areas, and localities.

Strengthen state management responsibility in the selection, provision, and use of textbooks, educational materials of the locality according to conformity, ensuring the full and timely provision of textbooks for the new school year 2024-2025; have a plan to support textbooks for policy students, poor households, near-poor households, vulnerable groups, students with difficult family circumstances, students in ethnic minority areas, mountainous, border, island areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions.

Increase investment in infrastructure, equipment for implementing digital transformation in education and training according to Directive 04/CT-TTg in 2024 of the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam;

Prepare adequately and thoroughly the conditions to organize the High School Graduation Examination according to the General Education Program 2018, ensuring quality, safety, seriousness, effectiveness, reducing pressure, and creating favorable conditions for students.

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How many weeks does the 2024-2025 school year in Vietnam last?

Based on Article 2 of Decision 2045/QD-BGDDT in 2024:

Principles for developing the school year time plan for localities

1. The school year time plan for localities must ensure 35 weeks of actual learning (the first semester has 18 weeks, and the second semester has 17 weeks).

2. The school year time plan must be appropriate to the characteristics and actual conditions of the locality.

3. Public holidays and Tet holidays are implemented according to the provisions of the Labor Code and annual guiding documents.

4. The annual leave for teachers is implemented during the summer vacation or can be scheduled alternately at other times of the year to fit the specific characteristics and school year time plan of the locality.

5. The school year time plan needs to ensure uniformity for all levels of education in a residential area, especially in general schools with multiple levels of education.

The 2024-2025 school year lasts 35 weeks, the first semester lasts 18 weeks, and the second semester lasts 17 weeks.

What is the educational plan for the 2024-2025 school year in Vietnam in terms of student learning time at different levels?

Based on Section 4 of the General Education Program issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the educational plan for the 2024-2025 school year on student learning time at different levels is as follows:

The General Education Program is divided into two stages:

The basic education stage (from grade 1 to grade 9) and the vocational orientation education stage (from grade 10 to grade 12).

The system of subjects and educational activities of the general education program includes compulsory subjects and educational activities, elective subjects oriented towards vocational orientation (abbreviated as elective subjects), and optional subjects.

The actual learning time in one school year is equivalent to 35 weeks. Educational institutions can organize teaching either one session/day or two sessions/day.

Educational institutions that organize teaching either one session/day or two sessions/day must implement the unified compulsory educational content for all educational institutions across the country.

(1). Basic Education Stage

- Primary Level

Implement teaching two sessions/day, arranging no more than 7 lessons per day; each lesson lasts 35 minutes. Educational institutions that are not yet able to organize teaching two sessions/day shall implement the educational plan as guided by the Ministry of Education and Training.

- Lower Secondary Level

Each day, a single session is taught, with no more than 5 lessons per session; each lesson lasts 45 minutes. Schools are encouraged to organize teaching two sessions/day where conditions permit, following the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training.

(2). Vocational Orientation Education Stage (High School Level)

Each day, a single session is taught, with no more than 5 lessons per session; each lesson lasts 45 minutes. High schools are encouraged to organize teaching two sessions/day where conditions permit, following the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training.