Efforts to restore schools, prepare for the new school year 2025 - 2026
From late July to early August, heavy rain in the northern and north central mountainous provinces caused flash floods and landslides, causing many schools to be devastated and facilities to be severely damaged. In Dien Bien alone, 7 students died, many classrooms had collapsed roofs, sunk, and teaching equipment was swept away. Nghe An and Son La also suffered heavy damage, many schools were flooded with mud, walls collapsed, and school supplies were lost.
Teachers, parents, soldiers and functional forces are urgently clearing mud, repairing schools, rearranging tables and chairs and mobilizing essential support for boarding students. The Departments of Education and Training directed the review and urgent repair to promptly open, and at the same time called for resources from the budget, socialization, charitable organizations and businesses.
The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to urgently overcome the consequences of natural disasters, ensure conditions for learning and stabilize people's lives. The Ministry of Education and Training is assigned to grasp the situation of facilities, equipment, and textbooks in affected areas, handle and report to ensure that students can return to normal schooling from the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year. See more...
Revealing the current education sector that is not worried about job shortage
Note on the bonus points for encouragement in university admissions at military schools in 2025
Implementing Instruction 3160/HD-TSQS dated June 10, 2025, candidate groups will receive additional encouragement points when admission to military universities and colleges with the system, including:
Group 01: Students who win national or international excellent student awards or national or international science and technology competitions (only when not using direct admission or prioritizing admission, and the winning subject is in the admission combination).
Group 02: Excellent high school students won the provincial or municipal excellent student award in subjects in the admission combination or all 3 subjects of the combination.
Group 03: Excellent high school students with international certificates SAT, ACT, IELTS, TOEFL iBT are valid until August 22, 2025.
Encouragement points are only added for groups containing winning subjects. For example, candidates who win prizes in Math or Physics will be awarded points for all combinations of this subject; win prizes in Chemistry for the A00 combination; win prizes in English for the A01 combination; win prizes in Literature for the C01 combination. When converting from a competency assessment test score to a combination of winning subjects, the points will be added, but if the combination does not have that subject, it will not be added. After adding up, the highest score in the combinations will be selected for admission. See more...
Gia Lai urgently plans boarding schools in border communes
Since the beginning of August, schools in 7 border communes of Gia Lai have urgently cleaned up, arranged facilities, prepared books, and ensured teaching and learning in 2 sessions/day. Teachers coordinate with families to encourage students, especially ethnic minority students, to maintain a 100% quota, and support children from far away to class. Some schools also coordinated health care, donated health care, gave textbooks and school supplies.
7 border communes have more than 10,300 students, nearly 55% of whom are ethnic minorities, but most of them do not have boarding or semi-boarding functions, causing difficulties for students in remote areas. Conclusion 81-TB/TW on the construction of boarding and semi-boarding schools received support from the people. Local leaders proposed to arrange land funds, ensure electricity, water, and transportation infrastructure to create a safe, comprehensive learning environment and link it with on-site human resource training.
The People's Committee of Gia Lai province requires planning standard schools, having dining areas, entertainment areas, ensuring safety against natural disasters and organizing teaching sessions/day, students are given free lunch. Currently, communes still lack 406 items and classrooms; the need to invest in facilities for boarding and semi-boarding students is estimated at more than 378 billion VND, and it is recommended to use the central budget for implementation. See more...
