Paradox of 10th grade admission in Ho Chi Minh City
In the 2025-2026 school year, Ho Chi Minh City public high schools have more than 70,000 targets but at the end of the application period, there is still a shortage of 2,340 students in 37 schools, of which many schools in low-end areas lack a large number. Notably, some top schools with high benchmark scores such as Tran Dai Nghia High School, Nguyen Thuong Hien High School, Phu Nhuan High School, Le Quy Don High School are also in a state of shortage of students.
Although the Department of Education and Training has continuously extended the conditions for additional admissions over the past 3 years to create opportunities for students who have failed all 3 wishes, the shortage is still recurring. This year, all additional admission schools will accept applications with the standard wish list of 1, but the number of candidates applying is still small. The reason for the group of schools is that students choose other schools, have plans to study abroad, or do not have boarding. Some opinions suggested adjusting the quota higher than the actual level or having sanctions for private schools to let students take the exam just for experience.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training requires the development of a 10th grade enrollment plan for the 2026-2027 school year in September 2025 to keep up with the teaching and learning orientation. See more...
Hanoi will have an additional 4-storey school with 12 classrooms in 2026
On August 14, the People's Committee of Vinh Hung Ward (Hanoi) held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Thanh Tri Kindergarten Construction Project at plot F3/NT2, area of about 2,835 m2. The existing school was built before 2000 and renovated many times but the facilities have deteriorated, not meeting the standards of a national standard school according to Circular 13/2020/TT-BGDDT.
The new project has a scale of a 14 story building with about 12 classrooms, functional rooms, and auxiliary items such as gates, fences, internal yards, trees, parking lots, pumping stations, power stations, fire protection systems and security guards. The total investment is about 73.5 billion VND, construction density is 40%.
The construction time is expected to be 350 days, completed on July 30, 2026, but the investor and contractor strive to be 30 days earlier. The Ward People's Committee requires relevant parties to closely coordinate, ensuring technical, quality, safety, environmental sanitation, fire prevention and fighting and on schedule throughout the construction process. See more...
Temporary leave for teacher who punched a student in the second eye
On August 14, Mr. Nguyen Van Tinh - Principal of Vinh Loc High School (Vinh Loc Commune, Thanh Hoa Province) confirmed the incident of teacher V.X.T, English teacher of the school, beating a 7th grade student at Pham Van Hinh Secondary School (Tay Do Commune). After the incident, the school temporarily suspended Mr. T from professional work to take care of the students' health with his family and coordinate with the police to investigate. The handling will be based on the verification results, the level of impact on students' health and family opinions.
Previously, social networks spread a clip recording a man riding a motorbike to a house, slapping a child many times in the face on the morning of August 8. The person in the clip was identified as Mr. T, currently working at Vinh Loc High School. The teacher wrote a report, and his family took the students to Hanoi and then to Thanh Hoa Children's Hospital for treatment due to a perforation of the duodenum.
The initial cause was determined to be that during the summer, the student told her that Mr. T's teaching was confusing. Hearing that, the teacher was upset and went home, in front of the student's mother, slapping her 3 times with the reason " teaching from a family perspective" because they had relatives. Thanh Hoa Children's Hospital said that the child was admitted to the hospital on August 12 with a perforated secondary ear and was being treated with antibiotics; after the inflammation is gone, the child will be assessed for self-healing. See more...
