In the 2024-2025 school year, Nghe An will not organize a provincial science and technology competition.

The Department of Education and Training has just issued a document on organizing the evaluation and selection of science and technology projects for high school students in the 2024-2025 school year to its affiliated units.

Accordingly, this school year, the education sector will not organize a regular science and technology competition as in previous years. Instead, educational institutions with completed projects can submit their applications to the Department for project evaluation and selection to compete in the national science and technology competition. Participants are students in grades 8 to 12, with academic and training results in the 2023-2024 school year at a good level or higher.

According to the Department's instructions, a scientific project or technical project (competition project) whose content is the result of a student's research in one of the fields of the national competition is specified in Appendix 1 attached to Circular No. 06/2024/TT-BGDDT.

The project can be carried out by 1 student (individual project) or by 2 students from the same educational institution (collective project). Each candidate can only participate in 1 project.

Contest projects must ensure honesty in scientific research; no cheating, unauthorized copying, or forgery; no use or presentation of other people's research content or results as one's own.

Based on the submitted projects, the Department of Education and Training will synthesize the number of registered projects, develop an evaluation plan to select them for the national competition.

Regarding this change, Mr. Vo Van Mai - Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training said: Not organizing a science and technology competition is to implement Circular 06/2024 TT-BGDDT on the regulations of the National Science and Technology Research Competition for middle and high school students.

This is a circular replacing Circular 38/2012/TT-BGDDT amending the previous Circular 32/2017/TT-BGDDT, notably in the new circular there is no longer the content "the contest unit directs and organizes the science and technology competition for high school students in the locality and unit in accordance with actual conditions".

Through discussion, the representative of the Department of Education and Training said: Although there is no scientific research competition from school to provincial level, quality projects still have the opportunity to participate in the national competition. In addition, based on the number of projects participating in the selection, the education sector will select qualified projects with creativity, innovation, and effectiveness to reward and encourage.

Before that, over the past 10 years,science and technology competitionProvincial level is an annual activity implemented by Nghe An education and training sector and attracts over 200 participating projects each year.

The implementation of the contest is considered one of the core activities that promote fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training towards developing students' qualities and abilities.

At the same time, it also has the meaning of promoting teachers to self-improve, improve professional capacity and teaching quality in high schools, contributing to the effective implementation of the 2018 General Education Program.