The tradition of studiousness and good study has become a typical cultural value of Nghe An.

Attending the event were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Thang - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics; Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, along with comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee and representatives of a number of relevant departments, branches and sectors. Photo: Duc Anh

Continue to maintain the top position in education quality nationwide

2019 marks the 10th year that Nghe An has organized the Ceremony to honor students who won international, regional, national prizes, and students who achieved high scores in the 2019 National High School Exam. Thereby, the province honored 26 students who won medals in Olympic competitions, 543 national excellent students, 16 students who won prizes in International Science and Technology Competitions, and 1,097 students who achieved high scores in the National High School Exams.

The 2018-2019 school year was also the year that Nghe An achieved many high achievements in the exams. Of which, 90 students won prizes in the National Excellent Student Exam with 3 First prizes, 38 Second prizes, 30 Third prizes and 19 Encouragement prizes, ranking 2nd in the country; 6 students won prizes in the National Science and Technology Competition.

Art performance to welcome the ceremony. Photo: Duc Anh

In particular, last school year, Nghe An had 4 students winning prizes at international and regional Olympic competitions. They were Vu Duc Vinh who won the Silver Medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad, Duong Tung Lam - Bronze Medal at the International Biology Olympiad, Hoang Phan Huu Duc and Nguyen Van Binh who won the Silver Medal at the Asian Informatics Olympiad and the Bronze Medal at the European Physics Olympiad.

With this result, Nghe An is the province with the number of participants and winners of international excellent students in the top of the country.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation awarded certificates of merit to 4 students who won prizes at the International and Regional Olympic Competitions. Photo: Duc Anh

In the National High School Exam, the whole province had 34 students with high scores (from 27.40 and above in all exam groups) from 19 high schools and 6 ethnic minority students with next highest scores.

All the best for education

Speaking at the commendation ceremony, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy praised and congratulated the outstanding achievements that students, teachers, educational administrators, and schools had achieved in the last school year.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the commendation ceremony. Photo: Duc Anh

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also affirmed that Nghe An is proud to be a land of "spiritual land and talented people". Although life is difficult, the people are industrious and studious. Here, education is not only a dream to escape poverty but also a desire to assert oneself: The tradition of studiousness and good study has become a typical and unique cultural value, a great resource of the province.

After 10 years of organizing the commendation ceremony, he also hopes that the program will spread the spirit of studiousness, encourage the emulation movement of studying, training and developing talents; and give more motivation for Nghe An students to strive to continue the arduous and glorious path of knowledge ahead. This is also a gift of gratitude to the hard-working parents who work hard to raise their children to become successful students; and the dedicated teachers who devote themselves to their beloved students.

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Son and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy presented awards to students who achieved national excellent student status. Photo: Duc Anh

The commendation ceremony also affirmed that the provincial leaders, all levels and sectors in the province will always pay attention and dedicate the best possible things to education, to the cause of cultivating people and for the talents of Nghe An to shine.

With the achievements, the Provincial Chairman also requested the entire education sector to continue to make efforts and pay attention to improving the quality of mass education. At the same time, invest in improving the quality of excellent students in all regions; promote activities to encourage learning and talent, build a learning society; mobilize social resources to invest in education development, create the best environment for students to study well, practice moral and physical qualities.

Comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and Comrade Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded prizes to students with high scores in the 2019 National High School Exam. Photo: Duc Anh

As for the students with high achievements who were honored, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee hopes that they will be good seeds, intellectual talents of the country and the province. Besides, he hopes that they will not be satisfied with the results achieved but need to continue to make every effort to realize their big dreams, live with noble and humane ideals, and become exemplary citizens.

Entering the new school year, he suggested that the teachers in the province, in addition to advanced, exemplary and pioneering teaching methods, need to have a heart broad enough to tolerate differences; delicate and sensitive enough to share; skillful enough to guide; and loving enough to support students.

At the ceremony, the Provincial People's Committee awarded certificates of merit and prizes worth nearly 2.4 billion VND to students with high achievements in exams in the 2018-2019 school year.