Hanoi gives urgent instructions on organizing boarding meals
The Hanoi People's Committee requires wards, communes and educational institutions to strictly implement Resolution 18/2025 on organizing boarding meals for students. The entire meal organization process must be reviewed, strictly controlled food sources and strictly handle collectives and individuals for violations. When detecting violations, the catering unit must immediately stop and replace it with a qualified unit.
The Department of Health is assigned to preside over and coordinate with relevant departments and branches to review and amend Instruction 02/BCD-HD and advise on the issuance of a boarding meal organization process before November 25, 2025. At the same time, the Departments of Health, Industry and Trade, Agriculture and Environment strengthen food safety management, inspect - strictly handle violations and publicize the list of sources of safe ingredients.
The Department of Culture and Sports strengthens communication, raises awareness of schools, teachers, and parents about food safety, publicizes violating facilities and handling measures. See more...
Will organize free distribution of all textbooks to students in flooded areas
Floods in recent days in the South Central and Central Highlands have caused severe damage to the education sector, killing 4 students and affecting nearly 2,000 schools. The total damage to facilities in the 5 provinces is estimated at nearly 100 billion VND, many schools were deeply flooded, landslides, damaged fences, teaching equipment and hundreds of thousands of textbooks were damaged. By noon on November 24, 360 schools had not been able to resume operations in Dak Lak and Khanh Hoa.
The Ministry of Education and Training requires localities to review the damage, propose funding for repairs and mobilize forces to support cleaning to soon bring students back to school. The Ministry will provide all textbooks for free to students in flooded areas, coordinate with the Vietnam Education Publishing House to prepare 10 million copies for distribution, of which Dak Lak has completed support and continues with Gia Lai, Khanh Hoa, Quang Ngai and Lam Dong.
The Ministry of Education and Training launched a fundraising campaign, supporting each province with 300 million VND and supporting the families of the deceased students. The Ministry also coordinated with UNICEF and international organizations to deploy emergency support, including school supplies, drinking water, finance and free psychological counseling programs for students affected by natural disasters;... See more...
In the 2026 Ho Chi Minh City 10th grade exam, students do not need to study more
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training has announced the structure and reference exam questions for 10th grade admission in 2026 for three subjects: Literature, Math and English. The exam consists of assessing abilities, reducing in-depth learning and increasing practical application. Literature includes reading comprehension and writing, main content of grades 8-9; Math increases practical application questions; English has 40 sentences, comprehensively evaluates amatic words to communication, adds the form of writing phrases according to previous information.
Mr. Cao Duc Khoa - Principal of Nguyen Du Secondary School (Ben Thanh Ward), assessed that the reference set clearly demonstrates the spirit of innovation, forcing students to learn the nature instead of learning from the register. Literature is associated with social issues, Math requires application to life situations, while English according to new competency standards, requires flexible language use. He emphasized that exam preparation requires an early roadmap, teachers must finalize knowledge at each stage and students must focus on reviewing from April 2026.
Mr. Khoa advises parents not to let their children take extra classes in too many places, because the important thing is to have a firm grasp of basic knowledge and know how to apply it. Students need to allocate reasonable time between studying, resting and self- practicing to avoid pressure. See more...
Decoding the appeal of the language industry to young people
