Proposal to only enroll students from grade 3 for boarding primary schools
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) publishes a summary of receiving and explaining comments for the draft Circular promulgating the Regulations on organization and operation of boarding general schools to collect comments.
In which, Article 8 of the draft Circular stipulates the subjects of admission to boarding general schools as follows:
1. Admission subjects:
Students of the age according to regulations for the school level; have permanent residence registration in the border commune where the school is headquartered or in adjacent border communes or are children of officials, civil servants, public employees, and armed forces working in the border commune.
2. Enrollment plan:
The Department of Education and Training coordinates with the commune-level People's Committee to develop a enrollment plan for rural high schools in the province, submit it to the provincial-level People's Committee for approval and promulgation.
The enrollment plan includes the following main contents: subjects, areas, methods, enrollment targets; organization of enrollment work.
In the enrollment plan, the targets for boarding students and semi-boarding students for lunch are clearly defined at schools. For primary school level, the enrollment of boarding students from grade 1 or grade 3 is decided by the provincial People's Committee according to the actual conditions in the locality.
3. Enrollment organization:
a) Implement according to the regulations in the Enrollment Regulations issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.
b) In case the number of students registering for enrollment exceeds the target compared to the school's total enrollment target for the first grade, priority is given in the following order:
- Students who are entitled to social policies;
- Students from poor and near-poor households according to the Government's regulations;
- Students permanently residing in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, border areas, students in areas far from school cannot go to school and return home on the day prescribed by the provincial People's Committee.
Contributing opinions on the enrollment targets for boarding general schools at the primary level, Son La Department of Education and Training proposed to only enroll students from grade 3; or assign commune-level and provincial-level People's Committees to decide according to local practical conditions.
Son La Department of Education and Training believes that 1st and 2nd grade students are still too young, so they are very difficult to care for and nurture.
Need to arrange priority order when dossiers exceed the initial target
Regarding cases where the number of applications exceeds the target compared to the school's initial target, the Son La Department of Education and Training proposes prioritizing in the following order:
(1) Students in particularly difficult circumstances (orphans, poor households, without caregivers, without shelter), students who are children of policy families;
(2) Students in villages/towns with borders (border villages);
(3) Students with permanent residence registration in particularly difficult villages/towns;
(4) Students in commune schools cannot go to school and return home on the same day;
(5) Students who are ethnic minorities.
Meanwhile, the Department of Education and Training of Dien Bien proposed to add subjects who are children of officials, civil servants, and armed forces working in border communes; students studying at educational institutions directly affected by the construction of PTNT schools to be prioritized for enrollment according to Clause 3, Article 8, when the number of students registering for enrollment exceeds the target compared to the school's total enrollment target for the first grade.
Cao Bang Department of Education and Training and Dong Nai Department of Education and Training propose to add priority subjects in enrollment who are children of policy families, children of poor households, near-poor households, orphans, in particularly difficult circumstances in remote and isolated communes, and particularly difficult areas not border communes.
Accepting the opinions of the Departments of Education and Training, the Ministry of Education and Training said that it will study and adjust point b, clause 3, Article 8 of the draft Circular in the direction of arranging the order of priority subjects accordingly, when the number of students registering for enrollment exceeds the target compared to the school's total enrollment target for the first grade, in order to ensure fairness in enrollment for all students.
