Expected admission to 10th grade instead of entrance exams
The above content was informed by Mr. Nguyen Van Hien - Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training (GDĐT) at the conference summarizing the 2025-2026 school year and deploying tasks for the 2026-2027 school year held on the morning of August 21.
The Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training said that the city currently has a scale of more than 2.3 million students, more than 120,000 teachers and staff.
Before the school arrangement, Hanoi had more than 2,900 educational institutions. After the arrangement, there are 1,702 kindergartens and general schools (including 37 high-quality schools), along with a network of continuing education and vocational education.
Speaking about the shortcomings and difficulties, Mr. Hien said that the situation of teacher surplus and shortage still exists in some places. Besides, schools in some areas with rapid urbanization have not kept up with the requirements. Conditions for serving physical education, arts, health, and psychological counseling activities are still difficult; data exploitation to improve quality is not commensurate.
Therefore, the Director of Hanoi Department of Education and Training believes that in the new school year, Hanoi must strongly shift from policy to action, from mobilization to results, from data synthesis to support data for each student.
In the 2026-2027 school year, the entire Hanoi education sector will focus on new points including: Effectively implementing the governance model, the new school model after the rearrangement phase; innovating regular assessment; building an environment for using English; continuing to pay attention to the development of databases and gradually bringing artificial intelligence into education; innovating programs towards developing learners' abilities.
Mr. Hien said that the general spirit is that each policy must become a task, product, progress and specific responsibility.
Regarding innovation in inspection and evaluation in the direction of serving quality improvement, Hanoi will organize periodic evaluations and according to the city's general plan at all levels.
For the high school level, we will conduct quality assessment of grades 10, 11, 12 to be associated with preparing for high school graduation. For the secondary school level, we will assess and verify the results of assessment regularly to move towards the next stage where we can conduct graduation consideration and grade 10 admission consideration.
Especially for the high school level, the results will not stop at transcripts, but we will analyze according to each subject, school, student group and the progress of students. From there, determine tutoring, fostering, and support plans as well as be responsible for improving the quality of each class" - Mr. Hien said.
After each assessment, the school needs to clearly identify which knowledge and skills students lack; which subject groups need early support, which content teachers need to adjust and which resources need to be supplemented.
Step by step making English a second language in schools
Mr. Hien said that in the past time, the city has piloted in 20 schools the construction of English as a second language according to 3 levels.
At the basic level, schools establish an intuitive environment through signboards, club activities and regular communication. At the advanced level, organize activities using English according to a number of themes, educational activities and learning content. At the creative and leading level, English is used in learning, research and international cooperation.
The implementation needs to be based on the capacity of the team, facilities and students, not running after formality, not increasing the distance of access. At the preschool level, focus on creating excitement and reflexes to listen and speak through songs, games, and storytelling. In elementary school, strive for about 20-30 minutes per week for students to communicate entirely in English through English Corner, English Days, clubs or experiential activities.
In high school, it is encouraged to spend 30-60 minutes per week for students to use English associated with activities such as forums, public speaking, dramatization, projects, career orientation or building borderless classroom models.
Schools do not necessarily start on a large scale but can deploy from simple greetings, instructions, reading corners, bilingual newsletters or some clubs. The important thing is to create opportunities to use real, regular and friendly English, helping students not be afraid of being wrong, gradually forming communication habits" - Mr. Hien said.
