THE
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
27/2001/QD-BGDDT
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Hanoi,
July 05, 2001
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DECISION
PROMULGATING THE REGULATION ON RECOGNITION OF
NATIONAL-STANDARD SECONDARY SCHOOLS (THE 2001-2010 PERIOD)
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 15/CP
of March 2, 1993 on the tasks, powers and State management responsibilities of
the ministries and ministerial-level agencies;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 29/CP of March 30, 1994 on the tasks,
powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Education and Training;
Pursuant to the Education and Training Minister’s Decision No. 23/2000/QD-BGDDT
of July 11, 2000 promulgating the Regulation on Secondary Schools;
At the proposal of the director of the Secondary Education Department,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To
promulgate together with this Decision the "Regulation on Recognition of
National- Standard Secondary Schools (the 2001- 2010 period)."
Article 2.- This
Decision takes effect 15 days after its signing. The Secondary Education
Department shall have to guide and monitor the implementation of this
Regulation.
Article 3.- The
presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run
cities, the director of the Office, the director of the Secondary Education
Department, the heads of the concerned units, of the Ministry, and directors of
the provincial/municipal Education and Training Services shall have to implement
this Decision.
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MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND
TRAINING
Nguyen Minh Hien
REGULATION
ON RECOGNITION OF NATIONAL-STANDARD SECONDARY SCHOOLS (THE
2001-2010 PERIOD)
(Issued together with the Education and Training Minister�s Decision No. 27/2001/QD-BGDDT
of July 5, 2001)
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Scope of
regulation
This Regulation prescribes the criteria and the
organization of consideration and recognition of the junior secondary schools
and the senior secondary schools (hereinafter referred collectively to as the
secondary schools), which are up to the national standards in the 2001-2010
period.
Article 2.- Considering
the recognition
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2. The Minister of Education and Training shall
decide on the recognition of senior secondary schools being up to the national
standards.
The presidents of the People’s Committees of the
provinces and centrally-run cities shall decide on the recognition of junior
secondary schools being up to the national standards.
Article 3.- Recognition
time limits
The time limit for recognition of secondary
schools reaching the national standards shall be 5 years as from the date of
signing the recognition decision.
Within 5 years, if recognized national-standard
schools commit standard-related errors, they shall be considered for continued
recognition or non-recognition of national-standard schools, depending on the
nature and serious of their errors.
Article 4.-
Responsibilities of the district Education and Training Sections and the
provincial/municipal Education and Training Services
The district Education and Training Sections as
well as the provincial/municipal Education and Training Services shall, within
the scope of their functions and assigned tasks, have to select and invest in
building up national-standard schools on the basis of the existing schools and
at the same time advise the local administrations on investing in building up
new schools under the prescribed standards and in conformity with the plannings
and plans on local education development.
Chapter II
CRITERIA OF
NATIONAL-STANDARD SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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1. Class rooms.
a/ Having enough class groups of the educational
level.
b/ Having 45 class rooms at most.
c/ Each class room has no more than 45 pupils.
2. Professional teams:
a/ Annually to focus on solving at least one
professional content with effect to raise the quality and efficiency of
teaching and learning.
b/ To draw up plans on fostering to raise the
teachers’ professional levels and achieving the academic year�s norms set for the
fostering, short-term fostering, long-term fostering and training.
3. The bureaucratic-administration team:
a/ The bureaucratic-administration team is
adequately staffed for the bureaucratic affairs, administration work, clerical
work, archival work, accountancy, cashier, school health work, security,
services, store-keeping under the current provisions of the Regulation on
Secondary Schools.
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c/ Well fulfilling all tasks, having no
personnel disciplined at the warning or heavier level.
4. Various councils and boards of
representatives of pupils’ parents
These councils and boards in the schools operate
according to plans and schedules so as to achieve the efficiency of practically
contributing to raising the educational quality and building up school order
and discipline.
5. Party and mass organizations
a/ In schools where exist teams or cells of the
Communist Party of Vietnam, these Party organizations must be recognized as
reaching the standards of clean, firm and strong Party organizations. In
schools where the Party organizations are yet available, plans must be drawn up
to achieve concrete norms on admission of new Party members in each academic
year and build up the grassroots Party organizations.
b/ The educational service’s trade union
organizations, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union organizations and the Ho
Chi Minh Young Pioneers organizations of the schools must be recognized by
authorities of the district or higher level as being strong in their
organization and progressive in their activities in localities.
Article 6.- Criterion 2
- Administrators, teachers and personnel
1. The principals and deputy-principals must
satisfy the criteria prescribed in the Statute of Secondary Schools; well
observe the regulation on democracy in activities of schools and be ranked by the
immediate educational administration authorities as good or excellent in
professional capability and effective in management.
2. Having enough subject teachers reaching the
training standards under the current regulations, at least 20% of them reaching
the standard of good teaching at the district or higher level and having good
morality; having no teachers ranked professionally and morally weak.
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Article 7.- Criterion 3
- Educational quality
In the academic year preceding the year of
proposing the recognition and in five years of recognition as reaching the
national standards, the following norms must be achieved:
1. The percentage of annual school dropouts does
not exceed 1% and the percentage of class-repeaters does not exceed 5%.
2. Educational quality:
a/ Knowledge standards:
3% or more of the pupils ranked as reaching the
excellent knowledge standard.
30% or more of the pupils ranked as reaching the
good knowledge standard.
5% or less of the pupils ranked as being at low
knowledge standard.
b/ Conduct:
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Not more than 2% of the pupils ranked as bad.
3. Educational activities:
Strictly complying with the Ministry’s
regulations on organization and contents of educational activities inside and
outside classrooms.
Each academic year organizing at least one
collective activity on the entire school scale.
4. Fulfilling the assigned tasks in the local
plans for unversalization of junior secondary education.
Article 8.- Criteria 4-
Material foundation and equipment.
1. For schools set up before this Regulation
takes effect:
a/ The school premise is a separate area
surrounded by fences, having school gate, school signboard, and all sections in
the school are rationally arranged, kept clean and beautiful.
b/ The structure of construction blocs in the
school includes:
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- Having enough classrooms for one-shift
classes; the classrooms are well-ventilated, airy, well lit; the pupils’ tables
and chairs as well as the teachers’ desks and chairs and writing boards are up
to the current standards.
- Having laboratory, practice rooms for such
study subjects as physics, biology, chemistry, informatics, which are equipped
under the provisions in the Regulation on educational equipment in pre-schools,
general education schools, promulgated by the Ministry of Education and
Training.
- Having language-learning rooms, audio-visual
rooms.
b2. The study-service area:
Having library of currently prescribed standards
for the organization and operation of school library, the tradition room, the
physical training and sport ground, the working rooms for the education trade
union organization, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union organization and the
Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers organization.
b3. The bureaucratic- administration area:
Having working rooms for the principal and
vice-principals, the school office, teachers�
meeting hall, warehouse, reception room.
b4. The playground is clean, hygienic and
planted with shady trees.
b5. The toilets are arranged separately for teachers,
male pupils, female pupils, without causing pollution to the environment inside
and outside the school.
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b7. Being supplied with enough clean water for
teaching-learning activities, educational activities, for daily use by teachers
and pupils; being furnished with hygienic water drainage system.
2. For schools set up after this Regulation
takes effect:
Their material foundations shall comply with the
provisions in Chapter VI of the Charter of Secondary Schools and enclosed
guiding documents issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.
Article 9.- Criterion 5
- The work of educational socialization
Actively advising the local Party Committees and
administrations on educational work. Applying various forms of mobilizing
social forces for the building of a healthy educational environment,
contributing to raising the quality of all-sided education; maintaining the
close educational ties between the school, pupils’ parents and the communities
as provided for in Chapter VII of the Regulation on Secondary Schools;
mobilizing the social forces to contribute to building the material foundations
of schools.
Chapter III
ORGANIZING THE
CONSIDERATION AND RECOGNITION OF NATIONAL-STANDARD SCHOOLS
Article 10.- Dossiers
Secondary schools requesting to be considered
and recognized as schools of national standards must compile the dossiers,
comprising:
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2. The report on the fulfillment of the criteria
prescribed in Chapter II of this Regulation, enclosed with the diagram on the
structure of construction blocs of the school.
3. The inspection records, the written proposal
for being considered and recognized as national-standard secondary school of
the district- or provincial-level Consideration and Recommendation Councils.
Article 11.- Consideration
and Recommendation Councils and inspection teams
The district- or provincial-level Consideration
and Recommendation Councils and the Ministry’s inspection teams shall be set up
annually; their operation duration shall be stated in the decisions on their
establishment to consider and recommend the recognition of national-standard
secondary schools.
The compositions and tasks of the district- or
provincial-level Consideration and Recommendation Councils as well as the
inspection teams of the Ministry of Education and Training are prescribed as
follows:
1. The district-level Consideration and
Recommendation Council:
a/ Composition:
- Chairman: A vice-president of the
district-level People’s Committee.
- 2 vice-chairmen:
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+ The president of the district-level
Educational Service’s Trade Union organization.
- Members and secretary of the Council: shall be
representatives of the concerned functional bodies, appointed by the president
of the district People’s Committee.
b/ Founding competence
The president of the district-level People’s
Committee shall decide on the setting up of the district-level Consideration
and Recommendation Council.
c/ Tasks
- Organizing the inspection of junior secondary schools
proposed for consideration and recognition of reaching the national standards,
based on the dossiers transferred by the district Education and Training
Section.
- Considering and proposing in writing the
provincial-level Consideration and Commendation Council to consider and
recognize the junior secondary schools of national standards.
2. The provincial-level Consideration and
Recommendation Council
a/ Composition:
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- 2 vice-chairmen:
+ The director of the provincial Education and
Training Service to act as the standing vice chairman.
+ The president of the provincial-level
Educational Service’s Trade Union organization.
- Members and secretary of the Council: shall be
representatives of the concerned functional bodies, appointed by the president
of the provincial-level People’s Committee.
b/ Founding competence
The president of the provincial-level People’s
Committee shall decide on the setting up of the provincial-level Consideration
and Recommendation Council.
c/ Tasks:
- Considering and proposing in writing the
president of the provincial-level People’s Committee to decide on the
recognition of junior secondary schools reaching the national standards.
- Examining, considering and proposing in
writing the Ministry of Education and Training to recognize senior secondary
schools of national standards, after getting the consent of the president of
the provincial-level People’s Committee.
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a/ Composition:
It is composed of representatives of the
Secondary Education Department, the Education Inspectorate, the Education and
Training Service’s Trade Union, and concerned units of the Ministry, who are
appointed by the Minister of Education and Training.
b/ Founding competence
The Minister of Education and Training shall
decide the setting up of inspection teams of the Ministry of Education and
Training.
c/ Tasks:
- Inspecting the senior secondary schools
proposed to be recognized as having reached the national standards according to
the dossiers transferred by the provincial-level Consideration and
Recommendation Councils.
- Considering and proposing in writing the
Minister of Education and Training to consider and decide on the recognition of
national-standard senior secondary schools.
4. Standing bodies
a/ Pending the establishment of Consideration
and Recommendation Councils and inspection teams of the Ministry of Education
and Training, there shall be agencies acting as standing bodies at the district
or provincial level and the Ministry of Education and Training
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- The provincial level: The provincial/municipal
Education and Training Service.
- The Ministry of Education and Training: The
Secondary Education Department.
b/ The standing bodies shall have the following
tasks:
- Guiding the secondary schools which fully meet
the conditions to compile dossiers requesting the consideration and recognition
of national-standard schools, organizing recognition ceremonies for schools
recognized as having achieved the national standards.
- Receiving dossiers requesting the
consideration and recognition of secondary schools in the areas under their
respective management.
- Projecting lists of members of the
Consideration and Recommendation Councils as well as inspection teams for
submission to competent authorities for decision.
- Monitoring the activities, detecting and
proposing the handling of, errors (if any) committed by recognized
national-standard schools.
Article 12.-
Implementation steps
1. For junior secondary schools
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b/ The district-level Consideration and
Recommendation Councils shall organize the examination and consideration and
make written recommendations to be sent to the provincial-level Consideration
and Recommendation Council, together with the examination records and the
dossiers prescribed in Article 10 of this Regulation.
c/ The provincial-level Consideration and Recommendation
Councils shall examine and consider them, then submit to the presidents of the
provincial-level People’s Committees for considering and deciding on the
recognition.
2. For senior secondary schools
a/ The provincial/municipal Education and Training
Services shall have to receive and evaluate the dossiers requesting the
consideration and recognition of reaching the national standards, reach
agreement in writing with the district-level People’s Committees and forward
them to the provincial-level Consideration and Recommendation Councils.
b/ The provincial-level Consideration and
Recommendation Councils shall organize the examination and consideration, and
make written recommendations to be submitted to the Ministry of Education and
Training for recognition of national-standard senior secondary schools,
enclosed with the examination records and the dossiers prescribed in Article 10
of this Regulation.
c/ The inspection teams of the Ministry of
Education and Training shall directly inspect the senior secondary schools
recommended by the provincial-level Consideration and Recommendation Councils
and make written reports to the Minister of Education and Training for
considering and deciding on the recognition.
3. After each round of consideration and recognition,
the competent authorities shall have to reply in writing the secondary schools
not yet recognized for reaching the national standards regarding specific
criteria so that such schools will work out orientations to strive for the
recognition in the subsequent academic year.