The competition rate for specialized 10th grade in Ho Chi Minh City is increasing sharply
On the afternoon of May 4, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training (GDĐT) announced the number of students registered for regular, specialized and integrated grade 10 classes for the 2026-2027 school year in nguyện vọng 1 of high schools.
In the specialized school group, Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted has the largest number of candidates registered for the exam with 5,738 aspirations, while the enrollment quota is 805 students. The corresponding competition ratio is about 1/7, meaning for every 7 registered candidates, 1 student is admitted.
Next is Tran Dai Nghia High School for the Gifted with 2,521 registered candidates, enrollment quota of 525 students, competition ratio of about 1/4.8. See more...
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Proposal to merge the Education Magazine, rename the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences
The Ministry of Justice is appraising the draft Decree stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training, replacing Decree No. 37/2025/ND-CP dated February 26, 2025 of the Government stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training - the drafting agency, the organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training has undergone the streamlining process in 2025, so it is reasonable to cover all state management tasks, promptly solve arising problems, and ensure the principle that one organization performs many tasks and one task is only assigned to one organization to preside over and be primarily responsible. Units are all ensuring the criteria for establishing units according to regulations.
According to the Draft, Departments under the Ministry currently do not meet the criteria of Department type 1 but are suitable for classifying Department type 2 according to 303/2025/ND-CP dated November 19, 2025 of the Government. Based on that, the Ministry of Education and Training proposes to maintain the structure including 8 Departments, 5 Departments and the Ministry Office.
8 Departments according to the draft include: Department of Preschool Education; Department of General Education; Department of Higher Education; Department of National Defense and Security Education; Department of Students; Department of Legal Affairs; Department of Organization and Personnel; Department of Planning - Finance)
5 Departments include: Department of Teachers and Educational Administrators; Department of Quality Management; Department of Science, Technology and Information; Department of International Cooperation; Department of Vocational Education and Continuing Education.
For public non-business units, Education and Times Newspaper is a self-financing unit (group 2), currently with 51 people receiving salaries from the budget and 70 contract workers. Education Magazine is a partially self-financing unit (group 3), with 25 public employees receiving budget salaries.
Through review, the Ministry of Education and Training assessed that the Education Magazine has a small personnel scale, scope and role are not important in performing the Ministry's tasks. From there, the Ministry of Education and Training proposed to transfer the Education Magazine to the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences to merge with the Vietnam Educational Sciences Magazine. See more...
Da Nang has 44,774 candidates registered to take the 10th grade entrance exam for the 2026-2027 school year
According to statistics from the Department of Education and Training of Da Nang City, in 2026 there are 44,774 candidates registering for nguyện vọng 1 and 43,136 candidates registering for nguyện vọng 2. The total enrollment target for 10th grade of 70 public high schools in the whole city is 37,350 targets.
Among them, schools with a high number of candidates registering for nguyện vọng 1 are Phan Chau Trinh High School with 2,922 applications, Tran Phu High School with 1,404 applications, Thai Phien High School with 1,174 applications. Some other units such as Tran Cao Van High School also have a large number of candidates registering for nguyện vọng 1. See more...
