Basic standards facilities of upper secondary schools in Vietnam

Basic standards facilities of upper secondary schools in Vietnam (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. Requirements for upper secondary schools locations in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 17 of Circular 13/2020/TT-BGDDT, requirements for upper secondary schools location

- Conforming to local education development planning;

- Surroundings must be safe for students, officials, teachers and employees;

- Have convenient traffic for students to go to schools; satisfy fire prevention requirements.

2. Basic standards facilities of upper secondary schools in Vietnam

Basic standard facilities of upper secondary schools in Vietnam are prescribed as follows:

(1) Administration rooms

- Principal room: has adequate working space, office equipment and devices according to applicable regulations and law;

- Vice principal room: has office equipment and devices according to applicable regulations and law;

- School office: at least 1; has adequate office equipment and devices according to applicable regulations and law;

- Security room: at least 1; situated near entrance of the school with good visibility;

- Sanitary areas for teachers, officials and employees: situated along functional rooms and separated by gender;

Number of equipment:

= 15 males/urinal stand, 20 males/toilet bowl, 1 wash-basin/4 toilet bowls but no less than 1;

= 15 females/toilet bowl, 1 wash-basin/2 toilet bowls but no less than 1.

In case of independent sanitary areas, situate in places that are convenient for use and do not affect the environment;

- Parking lot for teachers, officials and employees: has roof and adequate parking spaces.

(2) Studying rooms

- Classroom: at least 0.6 rooms/class; fully equipped with proper student tables, chairs with adequate seats for students; teacher tables and chairs; boards; lighting and fan systems;

- Music classroom: at least 1;

- Fine Arts classroom: at least 1;

- Home economics classroom: at least 1;

- Computer classroom: at least 1;

- Foreign language classroom: at least 1;

- Multipurpose room: at least 1;

- Physics classroom: at least 1;

- Chemistry classroom: at least 1;

- Biology classroom: at least 1.

(3) Study assisting rooms

- Library: each school must have at least 1 library; a library must at least have following areas: book storage, management quarter (working space of librarians), reading quarter for teachers and students;

- Education equipment room: at least 1; equipped with adequate shelves and cabinets to store and preserve teaching equipment of the school;

- Academic consulting room: at least 1;

- Tradition room: at least 1; fully equipped;

- Room for Youth Union: at least 1; fully equipped; maybe integrated with tradition room.

(4) Auxiliary rooms

- Meeting room for the entire officials, teachers and staff of the school: at least 1; fully equipped as per the law;

- Room for specialized teams: at least 1 room shared by all specialized teams; in schools with more than 30 classes: at least 2 rooms; fully equipped as per the law;

- Medical room: at least 1; medicine cabinets with essential medicines, first aid equipment and hospital beds;

- Storage: at least 1; to store general equipment and school supplies;

- Student parking lot: installed with roof; parking space for students with disabilities are located near the entrance;

- Student sanitary areas: situated along functional rooms; separated by gender; guaranteed accessibility for students with disability;

Number of equipment:

+ 1 urinal stand, 1 toilet bowl and 1 wash-basin for every 30 boys (in case of urinal trenches, 0.6 m in length for every 30 boys) with walls/partitions separating urinal stands from toilet bowls;

+ 1 toilet bowl and 1 wash-basin for every 20 girls. In case of separate sanitary areas, situate in location that is convenient and not affecting the environment;

- Gates and fences: school and school cluster premises must be separated from the outside by sturdy and safe fences (walls or trees); ensure sturdiness and safety. Gates of schools and school clusters must be reinforced and firm to attach school name signs.

(5) Playgrounds and sports fields.

- At least 1 general space for school activities; flat surface with shade provided by trees;

- Sports fields must be safe and equipped with tools and equipment for students.

(6) General activity rooms

- Kitchens (for schools organizing cooking): independent of studying rooms and study assisting rooms; one-piece flow manner; hygienic;

- Kitchen storage (for schools organizing cooking): separates storage of raw food and cooked food; installed with independent and convenient product input and output routes and separated for each type of food; equipped with food preservation equipment;

-  Dining halls (for boarding and semi-boarding schools): fully equipped to serve students;

- Dormitory (for boarding schools): installed with adequate bedrooms, sanitary and shower rooms for students; separated by gender; fully equipped;

- Student administration rooms (for boarding schools): situate dormitories for teachers managing boarding students;

- General room (for boarding schools): situated in boarding area, near student dormitories; fully equipped.

(7) Technical infrastructure

- Clean water supply: meets use demand, water quality regulation and standards according to applicable regulations and law;

Water drainage system, sewer combining with covered trenches and wastewater treatment system satisfy wastewater quality as per the law before discharging into the environment;

- Power supply system: meets capacity and safety requirements to serve school’s operations;

- Fire prevention system: complies with applicable regulations and law;

- Information, technology and communication infrastructure: phone and internet connection serving school’s operations;

- Garbage collection areas: situated independently, away from functional rooms and at the end of the wind; installed with separate entrance convenient for collecting and transporting garbage;

Installed with separate water drainage system and no affecting the environment. Separate collection of toxic chemicals and experiment waste.

(8) Work items specified in (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) shall be reinforced structures or semi-reinforced structures.

Reinforced structures must not account for less than 60%.

(9) Teaching equipment

- Teaching equipment must be guaranteed according to regulations of Ministry of Education and Training;

- Classrooms for specific subjects must be equipped with tables, chairs, cabinets, shelves, stands, electrical and water systems, fan and ventilation systems, other auxiliary devices, teaching equipment and study materials depending on each subject.

(Article 18 of Circular 13/2020/TT-BGDDT)

Nguyen Thi Hoai Thuong

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