Ho Chi Minh City will select a number of pilot schools to use English as a second language.

On August 16, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City held a conference to summarize the 2023-2024 school year and deploy tasks for the 2024-2025 school year.

Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong assessed that in the 2023-2024 school year, the Ho Chi Minh City Education and Training sector has promoted advantages, overcome difficulties, and strived to achieve comprehensive results in many fields, closely following the key tasks deployed from the beginning of the school year, while the city's Education and Training sector has concretized them based on the specific situation of the city.

Also according to Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong, an impressive point is that Ho Chi Minh City has models, programs, and projects, which are successes such as the digital classroom model, the open classroom model, Project 5695 on "Teaching and learning Math, Science and English integrating English and Vietnamese programs" at public schools in Ho Chi Minh City for 10 years has promoted the city's advantages.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong highly appreciated the achievements of the Ho Chi Minh City Education and Training sector.

Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong also said that the results of Ho Chi Minh City, especially in the field of English, leading the country in graduation exam results for 8 consecutive years is a noteworthy highlight, proving that many models, projects and programs of the city are effective and hopes that Ho Chi Minh City will be the first locality to have schools using English as a second language...

Also at the conference, Ms. Nguyen Thi Le, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, acknowledged that in the 2023-2024 school year, the city's education has achieved outstanding achievements.

Specifically, in the National High School Science and Technology Competition, this is the first time that Ho Chi Minh City students have won the highest prize after 12 consecutive years of participating in the international playground.

The City's excellent student team ranked 2nd in the national excellent student exam, 10 places higher than the results of the 2022-2023 school year. The City has maintained its leading position in English scores in the high school graduation exam for 8 consecutive years.... "The above outstanding achievements affirm the right steps in the coordination, consulting and direction of the entire sector of the Department of Education and Training" - Ms. Le emphasized.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Le, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, acknowledged that in the 2023-2024 school year, the city's education has achieved outstanding achievements.

In the 2024-2025 school year, the Chairman of the City People's Council requested the City's Education and Training sector to focus on implementing key tasks, such as: Continuing to implement the plan to build a "UNESCO Global Learning City in Ho Chi Minh City for the period 2024-2030" in 2024. Completing the application for assessment and recognition of the "Learning Community" at the provincial level, sending it to the Ministry of Education and Training for assessment and recognition of Ho Chi Minh City as a "Learning Community" at the provincial level.

The education and training sector needs to continue to promote the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style to every cadre, teacher, staff and student; continue to effectively implement the construction of "Happy Schools" so that every teacher and every student can truly feel the joy and happiness of going to class and school.

Effectively implement the plan to implement the "Ho Chi Minh City Education Development Strategy from now to 2030, with a vision to 2045", building Ho Chi Minh City into a center for training high-quality human resources for the country and the Asian region.

Continue to implement according to the roadmap, ensuring the completion of the city's breakthrough programs and projects on education; continue to effectively implement the Project on universalizing and improving English proficiency for students; the program "Teaching and learning Math, Science and English integrating English and Vietnamese programs"...

The 2024-2025 school year is also the first year the country organizes the high school graduation exam according to the 2018 General Education Program. The education sector needs to prepare a plan to guide students in studying and organize the exam to ensure safety and quality. Organize well the excellent student exams, scientific research and other exams to create a playground for students to practice.

Many groups were awarded certificates of merit for outstanding achievements.

Conduct teacher training in line with demand to ensure adequate structure, quantity and quality to meet the requirements of educational innovation; research and develop projects to develop the team of teachers and managers of preschool and general education institutions for the period 2026 - 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Many groups were awarded certificates of merit for outstanding achievements.

Organize recruitment to ensure quantity and quality, prioritize recruiting preschool and primary school teachers who are lacking; arrange and regulate preschool and general school teachers among local educational institutions to ensure reasonableness; focus on implementing emulation projects to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification, including: Smart Education Program; Project to build Ho Chi Minh City - Center for training high-quality human resources of the country and the region; Construction project of 4,500 classrooms...

Speaking to receive the direction of the Ministry of Education and Training and the city, Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, said that the education and training sector will organize a preliminary and final review of a number of projects and programs that have brought positive results, from which to replicate and support provinces and cities. Mr. Hieu added that in addition to project 5695, since 2012, Ho Chi Minh City has implemented a project to popularize and improve English proficiency for high school and vocational students in Ho Chi Minh City, and has been persistently implementing it. This is consistent with the conclusion of the Politburo on August 12, which requires gradually making English the second language in schools... According to Mr. Hieu, Ho Chi Minh City will study the criteria to select a number of schools to pilot the use of English as the second language in schools.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/tp-hcm-se-chon-1-so-truong-hoc-thi-diem-su-dung-tieng-anh-lam-ngon-ngu-thu-hai-196240816130645687.htm