What information on conditions ensuring the quality of educational activities shall be publicly disclosed by upper secondary schools in Vietnam?

What information on conditions ensuring the quality of educational activities shall be publicly disclosed by upper secondary schools in Vietnam?

Based on Article 8 of Circular 09/2024/TT-BGDDT, upper secondary schools must publicly disclose the following information about conditions ensuring the quality of educational activities:

(1). Information about the teaching staff, management staff, and employees:

- The number of teachers, management staff, and employees divided by job positions and educational qualifications;

- The number and percentage of teachers and management staff meeting professional standards according to regulations;

- The number and percentage of teachers, management staff, and employees completing annual training as required.

(2). Information about facilities and shared learning materials:

- The area of the school construction land, branch locations, and the minimum average area per student; comparison with the minimum required area;

- The number, categories of administrative rooms; educational rooms; learning support rooms; auxiliary facilities; playgrounds and sports areas; living support facilities; technical infrastructure; comparison with the minimum requirements;

- The number of current teaching equipment; comparison with the minimum requirements;

- The list of textbooks used in the educational institution approved by the competent authority; the list and quantity of minimum reference materials selected and used by the educational institution according to regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training.

(3). Information about evaluations and accreditation of educational quality:

- The results of the institution's self-evaluation of educational quality; the quality improvement plan following the self-evaluation;

- The results of external evaluations and recognition of educational quality accreditation and national standards achieved by the educational institution over time; the plan and results of quality improvement following external evaluations within 5 years and annually.

(4). Educational institutions implementing foreign education programs or integrated education programs must additionally disclose the following information:

- The name of the program, the providing country, detailed information about the education partner linked to teaching the integrated education program;

- The name of the educational quality accreditation organization or the competent foreign authority recognizing the educational quality;

- The language of implementation for educational activities.

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What information on educational plans and results shall be publicly disclosed by upper secondary schools in Vietnam?

Based on Article 9 of Circular 09/2024/TT-BGDDT, upper secondary schools must publicly disclose the following information about educational plans and results:

(1). Information about the annual educational activity plan:

- The admission plan of the educational institution, clearly indicating the targets, criteria, admission methods, timelines, and related information;

- The educational plan of the educational institution;

- The coordination regulations between the educational institution with families and society in the care and education of students;

- Programs and activities supporting students' study, training, and living at the educational institution;

- Daily menus for students (if any).

(2). Information about the actual educational results of the previous school year:

- Admission results; total number of students by grade; average students per class by grade; number of students attending two sessions/day; number of male/female students, ethnic minority students, students with disabilities; the number of students transferring schools and those received by the school;

- Statistics of student performance according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training; statistics of the number of students promoted to the next grade and those not promoted;

- The number of students recognized for completing the program, receiving graduation diplomas; the number of students admitted to vocational education institutions at lower secondary and upper secondary levels; the number of students admitted to universities at the upper secondary level.

(3). Educational institutions implementing foreign education programs or integrated education programs must additionally disclose the number of students (divided by the number of Vietnamese students and foreign students).

What financial revenue and expenditure information shall be publicly disclosed by upper secondary schools in Vietnam?

Based on Article 5 of Circular 09/2024/TT-BGDDT, the financial revenue and expenditure information that upper secondary schools must publicly disclose includes:

(1). The financial status of the educational institution in the financial year preceding the reporting period in accordance with the law, including the structure of revenue and expenditure activities as follows:

- Revenue categorized by funding sources (state budget, investor support; tuition fees, other fees from learners; sponsorship funding, and external contracts; other income) and activity types (education and training; science and technology; other activities);

- Expenditures classified by salary and earnings (salaries, allowances, additional salaries, and other salary-like payments to teachers, lecturers, management staff, employees, etc.); infrastructure and service expenses (purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of facilities, equipment, hiring services directly for educational activities, training, research, staff development, etc.); student support expenditures (scholarships, allowances, living support, extracurricular activities, competitions, awards, etc.); other expenditures.

(2) Tuition and fee revenues, including tuition, fees, and all other revenues and charges outside of tuition and fees (if any) for the academic year and projected for each subsequent academic year or course of the educational institution before admission and enrollment.

(3) Policies and annual results of policies on allowances, tuition exemptions and reductions, and scholarships for students.

(4) Fund balances as required, including special funds (if any).

(5) Other financial disclosure content as per the regulations on finance, budgeting, accounting, auditing, and grassroots democracy.