In his speech on the new school year's tasks, Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, mentioned the opinions of Ho Chi Minh City students at the meeting with the city's leaders held on June 1. According to Mr. Hieu, there were "nearly 30 opinions from students about the natural sciences (KHTN) subject, they were not satisfied, and were not favorable in receiving interdisciplinary knowledge".

Therefore, the head of the city's education and training department has requested that schools not arrange teaching if teachers have not been trained or have not participated in additional training on natural science teaching topics. Mr. Hieu said that since 2019, the department has worked with Saigon University to implement the integrated natural science subject. City teachers have been trained and continue to have advanced topics to teach this subject.

"How can we help teachers be confident when teaching integrated subjects, not breaking down knowledge, not deepening knowledge of Natural Science into single subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology as before. In the near future, the city will continue to organize specialized and advanced training courses in Natural Science to help teachers and students achieve the desired results. Ho Chi Minh City continues to persevere and maintain the orientation of teaching in an integrated direction, one teacher teaches a subject throughout, meeting the goals of the 2018 General Education Program," Mr. Hieu emphasized.

The principal does not choose the company or partner that organizes the program.

From the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, principals need to pay attention to selecting additional activities for the school program. Implement them publicly, transparently, democratically and voluntarily. Absolutely do not let students be forced into classes with foreign teachers.

If this story happens, the principal must be responsible. All additional activities that want to be organized must be voluntary so that students can register according to the activity group, additional subjects, the school arranges classes according to the wishes of the parents. Ensure that all students studying that program must be voluntary...

Schools must listen, create conditions and guide students to study the right subjects according to their strengths and desires.

The school principal does not choose a company or partner to organize the school program, but must develop additional activities on expertise, English, IT, and digital skills; parents choose a group, then they can choose guest teachers and coordinating units.

Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City

The 9th and 12th grade gifted student exam will have many new subjects.

At the conference, providing information about some new contents in the new school year 2024-2025, Mr. Tran Ngoc Huy, Deputy Head of Secondary Education Department, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, informed that in early October, Ho Chi Minh City will have Local Education Materials for grades 9 and 12 to facilitate schools in teaching.

Regarding the city-level excellent student exam for grades 9 and 12 in the new school year, the leader of the Secondary Education Department informed that there will be a number of new exam subjects in line with the 2018 General Education Program.

In particular, the 12th grade excellent student exam will have a new subject: economic and legal education.

The 9th grade gifted student exam will include natural sciences and history and geography because the 2018 secondary school general education program no longer has single subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, history, and geography.

"The 9th grade excellent student exam in Natural Science will consist of 2 compulsory and optional parts. The compulsory part with knowledge assessing students' general capacity in content areas accounts for 30% of the score and the optional part, students can choose one of the content areas related to capacity such as matter transformation, life..., accounts for 70% of the score. The structure of the excellent student team in Natural Science will include 45 students/locality", Mr. Tran Ngoc Huy informed.