Hanoi requires high schools to determine enrollment targets for 2024

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training has just issued an official dispatch requesting that by January 29 at the latest, high schools and vocational education and continuing education centers must report on their school plans and determine the enrollment quota for grade 10 in the next school year.

Each school's 10th grade enrollment quota is determined based on 5 criteria: Organization and teaching staff, facilities, professional work, financial work, enrollment work and educational quality assessment.

Hanoi requires high schools to determine enrollment targets for 2024, image 1 — Entrance exam to public grade 10 is getting more and more difficult (photo by Trinh Phuc).

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training will review these standards to approve quotas according to schools' proposals or reduce quotas if any standards are not met.

In order to ensure transparency, fairness and objectivity in the 10th grade enrollment for the 2024-2025 school year, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training also requires private high schools to proactively develop enrollment plans.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training especially noted that private high schools must develop a plan for online enrollment of grade 10 for the 2024-2025 school year, ensuring early review and completion of conditions for organizing online enrollment for effective and convenient implementation for students and families.

At the same time, schools must proactively prepare conditions for enrollment, including conditions for facilities, teaching equipment, and teaching staff.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training will set up teams to directly inspect the enrollment conditions of all schools. If any school does not ensure the enrollment conditions and does not have an online enrollment plan, the Department will not assign enrollment quotas for grade 10 for the 2024-2025 school year.

In the 2024-2025 school year, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training requires schools to promote the application of information technology in organizing 10th grade enrollment. Accordingly, public and private high schools must develop plans and organize online enrollment, no longer maintaining both in-person and online forms in parallel as in previous school years.

This is Hanoi's new solution for the 2024-2025 school year admissions to ensure transparency, fairness, and objectivity in admissions, while also contributing to solving the phenomenon of parents lining up from midnight to submit admission applications.

Currently, Hanoi has 117 non-specialized public high schools, 2 specialized high schools, 9 autonomous public high schools, 4 joint high schools and 97 private high schools.

Faced with the stressful situation of enrollment, especially the pressure of increasing population, lack of schools and classes in inner-city districts, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training once proposed to the Ministry of Education and Training to allow localities to apply a special mechanism in enrollment to grade 10 of public high schools in districts and some districts bordering the inner-city area.

Including 3 contents related to increasing the number of students/class; increasing the number of classes/school.

Specifically, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training proposed to allow a 10% increase in the number of classes/school (from 45 classes/school to 50 classes/school, exceeding 5 classes/school).

Second, it is allowed to increase the number of students/class by 10% (from 45 students/class to 50 students/class, exceeding 5 students/class). Third, it is allowed to replace land area/student with usable area/student.

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