Incorporating National Defense and Security Education into Teaching at Schools

At primary and secondary schools:

- Integrate national defense and security education through subjects in the curriculum, combined with extracurricular activities;- Ensure that students acquire initial knowledge and understanding of the nation's tradition of nation-building and defense, the people's armed forces; a sense of discipline, solidarity spirit, love for the Fatherland, and compassion for fellow citizens.

At high schools, professional secondary schools, and vocational secondary schools:

- Make National Defense and Security Education a core subject;- Ensure that students acquire initial knowledge about the all-people national defense, people's security; about the tradition of resisting foreign invaders of the nation, the people's armed forces, and the military art of Vietnam; basic and necessary knowledge about civil defense and military skills; ready to fulfill military service obligations to defend the Fatherland.- National defense and security education is organized and taught according to the program distribution.

At vocational colleges and higher education institutions:

- Make National Defense and Security Education a core subject;- Ensure that learners acquire basic knowledge about the views of the Communist Party, State policies, and laws regarding national defense and security; building an all-people national defense, people's security, combining national defense with security, building the people's armed forces; supplementing knowledge about civil defense and military skills; ready to fulfill military service obligations to defend the Fatherland.- Teaching and learning are organized centrally at the national defense and security education centers or at vocational colleges, higher education institutions.

At schools of state agencies, political organizations, and socio-political organizations:

- Make National Defense and Security Education a core subject;- Ensure that learners grasp firmly the views of the Communist Party, State policies, and laws regarding national defense and security; Vietnamese military art; the situation and tasks of national defense and security; defense areas; civil defense; combining economy with national defense and security; combining national defense and security with foreign affairs.- Based on the framework program of the Ministry of National Defense and regulations of competent authorities, the schools of political organizations build and implement the program, content of national defense and security education in the system of schools of political organizations and for learners in schools.

The Law on National Defense and Security Education 2013 took effect on January 01, 2014.

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