To make Vinh worthy of being a global learning city

Quality assurance

Dang Thai Mai Secondary School is the only special school in the whole province that has been selected as a high-quality key school and is also a pilot advanced model following the international integration trend.
Over the years, the school has carried out two tasks simultaneously: improving the quality of the city's secondary education and providing universal education for secondary school students in the area.

During the implementation process, despite many difficulties, the school's educational quality has been affirmed when for many consecutive years it has been a school with spearhead quality in the top of the province and is often leading among secondary schools in the whole province.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Hien - Principal of the school said: In each school year, the school has a suitable teaching plan for each subject and student's capacity. In the process of teaching and organizing educational activities, teachers have combined many teaching methods and active teaching techniques to promote student activities and contribute to the development of qualities and capacities. In addition, the school regularly reviews and evaluates the implementation of the school's plan in order to promptly make appropriate and effective adjustments.

Not only Dang Thai Mai Secondary School, to meet the increasing demands of education, especially in implementing the 2018 General Education Program, the Education and Training Department of Vinh City has made many innovations, pioneering in directing, implementing professional tasks and implementing teaching programs. Accordingly, the city has issued many documents to direct and organize the implementation of school year tasks, closely following the plans and programs set out.
In particular, focus on implementing professional tasks, guiding schools to develop annual education plans to ensure compulsory programs and pay attention to implementing enhanced programs. At the same time, continue to innovate teaching methods, forms, and testing and evaluation in the direction of developing learners' qualities and capacities, gradually improving quality, ensuring commitment to output standards...

With many efforts, Vinh City's Education sector has had many outstanding marks: Comprehensive education quality has been focused on improving, foreign language learning movement has developed strongly, and quality has improved significantly.

Notably, the quality of the spearhead continues to be affirmed as the leading unit in the province in terms of quantity, with 258 students winning prizes in the 2022-2023 school year, of which 59 high school students won the National Excellent Student Prize in various subjects, 45 high school students won the First Prize in the Provincial Excellent Student Competition, 129 middle school students won the First, Second, Third, and Encouragement Prizes in the Provincial Excellent Student Competition. In addition, many students won prizes in the competitions: Reading Culture Ambassador, Young Informatics, Science and Technology Competition for high school students organized by the Department of Education and Training and the Ministry of Education and Training.
In particular, some results demonstrate the efforts of teachers and students of the schools such as: The entrance exam to grade 10 of high school, the average score of 3 subjects in the city is the highest in the province, 22.37 points (in which, the average score of the whole province is 18.46 points). 65% of students in the city passed the entrance exam to grade 10, Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted, and more than 85% of students entered grade 10, Vinh University High School for the Gifted.

Education is increasingly practical

On September 21, 2020, UNESCO awarded a certificate recognizing Vinh city as a member of the "Global Learning Cities Network". This is an honor and pride for Vinh city in the process of developing the city into a regional center of the North Central region in the field of education and training.

After 2 years of becoming a member of UNESCO’s “Global Network of Learning Cities”, the city has made strong progress in building a learning city. The whole city currently has 134 schools from preschool to high school; 25 community learning centers; 2 continuing education centers; 6 universities, 13 colleges and many branches, along with many vocational high schools, vocational training centers, foreign language centers, information technology centers, etc. with full facilities and teaching equipment, meeting the diverse learning and development needs of the city’s people.

If in March 2020, Vinh city had 29/35 criteria meeting the standards according to the UNESCO Learning City Criteria, now the city has 34/35 criteria meeting the standards according to regulations.
That shows that becoming a member of the “Global Learning Cities Network” has created a strong driving force for development and brought practical benefits to the city's residents.

Reality also shows that, in recent years, Vinh city education has also been the leading force of the education sector in implementing projects and plans, pioneering in educational innovation.
Currently, the city is the only unit piloting the Project on building advanced kindergartens and general schools following the international integration trend in Nghe An province in the period of 2021-2030"; building happy schools, emulation movements for innovation and creativity in the education sector...

Talking about the achievements in education, Ms. Hoang Thi Phuong Thao - Head of the City's Department of Education and Training added: As the center of Nghe An province, we have identified our role and mission in the leading work. During the implementation process, there were many difficulties and challenges, so the city's viewpoint is to both implement and listen to contributions to create consensus in society, mobilizing the participation of Party committees at all levels, authorities and people.

To promote the advantages of being a member of UNESCO's "Global Network of Learning Cities", in the coming time, Vinh city will continue to develop and complete the master plan and roadmap to continue building a learning city in accordance with the criteria of the new Criteria for Building a Learning City of the Ministry of Education and Training...