This is the latest directive from the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) in Official Dispatch 4025/BGDDT-GDCTHSSV sent to Departments of Education and Training; universities, academies; universities, colleges of education, and intermediate pedagogical schools regarding the implementation of traffic safety education for the academic year 2017-2018.
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The Ministry requires:
Departments of Education and Training (DOETs) to direct educational institutions within their localities to develop plans for the dissemination and education of traffic safety laws (road, railway, and inland waterway traffic) for students in the 2017-2018 academic year, focusing on the following content:
- Implement measures to ensure order and traffic safety in the area around school gates, preventing traffic congestion on the opening day;- Mobilize organizations and individuals to support the provision of sufficient lifejackets, flotation devices for students who frequently travel by waterway; encourage students to wear lifejackets when participating in waterway transportation;- Secondary and high schools to organize parent meetings to propagate, remind, and sign commitments on not allowing underage students or students without a driver's license to operate motorcycles, and ensuring students wear helmets when riding motorcycles or motorbikes;- Make compliance with traffic laws a criterion for assessing student conduct and ethics. Additionally, include traffic safety education in schools as one of the criteria for evaluating competition in the 2017-2018 academic year for educational institutions in the locality.
Universities, academies; pedagogical universities, colleges, and intermediate pedagogical institutions
- Integrate dissemination, propaganda, and education on traffic safety laws for students during the orientation week at the start of the academic year or course;- Facilitate volunteer youth and active youth participation in supporting traffic management during the reception of new students to avoid congestion at local traffic hubs;- Ensure all staff, teachers, and students do not consume alcohol before operating vehicles, adhere to helmet-wearing regulations, and comply with traffic rules;- Pedagogical institutions should continue to research and incorporate traffic safety education into the official curriculum.
Units under the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)
- The Department of Political Education and Student Affairs should cooperate with the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee to complete the compilation of traffic culture materials for secondary school students; amend, supplement, and complete the traffic culture materials for primary school students;- The Departments of Primary Education and Secondary Education should continue to review the program, content, materials, and teaching duration of official traffic safety education, and appropriately amend and supplement for inclusion in the official curriculum following the roadmap for curriculum and textbook development of the Ministry;- The Department of Early Childhood Education should continue to direct the integration of traffic safety education content in the early childhood education program, enhancing dissemination, and propaganda for management staff, teachers, employees, children, and their parents.
See details at Official Dispatch 4025/BGDDT-GDCTHSSV dated September 1, 2017
