Most schools only organised the ceremonial part and eliminated the festive part to avoid gathering too many students in schoolyards in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Twelfth grade students of the Phan Dinh Phung High School (Hanoi) during the opening ceremony of the 2020-2021 academic year on September 5 morning.

For localities applying social distancing rules, educational institutions held their opening ceremonies online to ensure the safety of students.

As projected by the MOET, the 2020-2021 academic year will feature more than 5.38 million preschool students and over 17.5 million students at the general education level – over 8.7 million at primary schools, more than six million at secondary schools and over 2.8 million at high schools.

In the new school year, the entire educational sector continues to focus on implementing nine major groups of tasks, including reviewing, planning and developing the network of education and training institutions throughout the country; improving the quality and standardising teachers and educational administrators at all levels; enhancing the quality of preschool and general education; renovating management and improving the efficiency of continuing education; strengthening the education of ethics, lifestyle and life skills as well as ensuring school safety.

Next, the sector will work to improve the quality of foreign language teaching, especially English, at all grades and training levels; accelerate the application of information technology in teaching, learning and education management; implement digital transformation in education and training; and promote decentralisation and autonomy for educational institutions.

The first-grade students of the Trang An Primary School (Hanoi) during the opening ceremony of the new academic year.

In addition, there will be a focus on boosting international integration in education and training, as well as strengthening infrastructure for and ensuring the quality of education and training activities and human resource development, especially in terms of high-quality human resources.

The five basic groups of solutions to be implemented in the 2020-2021 academic year include continuing to improve institutions and enhance administrative reform concerning education and training; improving the leadership and management capacity of educational administrators; accelerating inspection, supervision, prevention and handling of negative manifestations in education-training activities; strengthening investment resources in education-training; enhancing the testing, evaluation, accreditation of education and boosting communication.

Vietnamese team makes an impression at opening of Army Games 2020

The Vietnamese Field Kitchen team received acclaim for their dishes presented during the opening day of the International Army Games 2020 and the International Military-Technical Forum (ARMY-2020) in Moscow, Russia on Sunday.

Schools allowed to host new school-year opening ceremony online

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has allowed schools across the nation to hold the opening ceremony for the 2020-2021 academic year online, set for September 5, amid the complex developments of Covid-19.

Opening time for Hue Festival 2020 adjusted

The Hue Festival 2020 will open on August 26 this year, two days earlier than the previously-decided date of August 28, the festival organising board recently said.

Hoa Lo Prison offers gifts and fresh experience to visitors on reopening day

Hoa Lo Prison Relic Site in Hanoi is offering gifts to the first 500 tourists upon reopening on May 14, after being closed under social distancing rules for Covid-19 prevention and control.

Opening ceremony of national tourism year 2020 cancelled due to Covid-19

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued a document on the cancellation of the opening ceremony of national tourism year 2020.

Source: NDO