Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) guidelines on commendations for studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) issued Official Letter No. 6962/BGDĐT-TCCB dated October 29, 2024, providing guidance on commendations and organizing gatherings to recognize outstanding, exemplary collectives and individuals in studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style.

Specifically, Official Letter No. 6962/BGDĐT-TCCB dated October 29, 2024, provides the following guidance on eligible recipients, principles, criteria, and nomination quotas for commendations by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) for studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style:

* Eligible recipients

Eligible collectives include units under and directly subordinate to the Ministry, the two national universities, and constituent units of those units and the two national universities. Eligible individuals include education administrators, teachers, lecturers, staff, and workers of units under and directly subordinate to the Ministry and the two national universities.

Commendations for school and university students shall be awarded through the “Youth Studying and Following Ho Chi Minh’s Thought, Morality, and Style” competition.

* Commendation principles

Compliance with the 2022 Law on Emulation and Commendation and its implementing regulations must be ensured, specifically as follows:

– Multiple forms of commendation shall not be awarded for a single achievement.

– Collectives and individuals shall not yet be considered or nominated for commendation while competent authorities are considering disciplinary action or administrative sanctions, or while they are subject to investigation, prosecution, trial, inspection, or examination where there are signs of violations, or while complaints or denunciations concerning them are being verified and clarified.

– The Minister of Education and Training shall award Certificates of Merit to collectives and individuals of units under and directly subordinate to the Ministry and the two national universities. For collectives and individuals of units under and directly subordinate to the Ministry, the Minister shall submit nominations to the Prime Minister for consideration for the Prime Minister’s Certificate of Merit, and submit nominations to the Prime Minister for consideration and referral to the State President for the award of the Third-Class Labor Order.

* Commendation criteria

– Annual commendations

+ For collectives: Eligible collectives must exemplify compliance with the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, maintain internal unity, be considered and recommended by competent authorities, and meet the following criteria:

++ Effectively organize and implement the study and practice of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style within their units through numerous innovations and creative, effective approaches, attracting broad and active participation from cadres, Party members, civil servants, public employees, workers, school and university students, and learners.

++ Achieve clear improvements and outstanding results in performing professional and political duties through studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style, with numerous exemplary role models whose practices are learned from and replicated.

++ Establish and effectively implement ethical standards based on Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style.

++ Be rated as having excellently fulfilled their duties; Party Organizations must be recognized as Party cells or Party Organizations that have excellently fulfilled their duties.

+ For individuals: Eligible individuals must exemplify compliance with the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, be selected at the grassroots level or identified through the mass media, and meet the following criteria:

++ Possess exemplary revolutionary moral qualities, serve as outstanding examples of determination to improve themselves and strive for excellence, and take an exemplary lead in studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style within their units.

++ Undertake specific, practical, and effective actions in self-improvement, moral cultivation, practicing thrift, combating waste and misconduct, or develop numerous valuable initiatives and models that yield practical results and are replicated and disseminated for others in the community to learn from and follow, contributing to socioeconomic development, disaster and epidemic prevention and control, maintaining security and national defense, ensuring social welfare, and charitable and humanitarian activities within the Ministry, their units, and nationwide.

++ Individuals subject to annual performance evaluation and classification must be rated as having excellently fulfilled their duties in the year of the achievements nominated for commendation. Individuals who are Party members must be rated as Party members who have fulfilled their duties well or above; Party members holding leadership positions must be rated as Party members who have excellently fulfilled their duties.

– Commendations at interim and final reviews

+ For collectives: Collectives recognized and commended must exemplify compliance with the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, maintain internal unity, be considered and recommended by competent authorities, and meet the following criteria:

++ Effectively organize and implement the study and practice of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style within their units through numerous new features and creative approaches, attracting broad and active participation from cadres, Party members, civil servants, public employees, and workers.

++ Achieve clear improvements and outstanding results in performing professional and political duties through studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style, with numerous exemplary role models whose practices are learned from and replicated.

++ Establish and effectively implement ethical standards based on Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style.

++ Be rated as having fulfilled their duties well or above every year. Collectives that are Party Organizations must consistently be evaluated and rated as having fulfilled their duties well or above. During that period, collectives must have been evaluated and rated as agencies or units that excellently fulfilled their duties, or as Party Organizations that excellently fulfilled their duties, for at least one year (for interim-review commendations), two years (for five-year interim-review commendations), or four years (for final-review commendations for a 10-year period).

+ For individuals: Eligible individuals must exemplify compliance with the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, be selected at the grassroots level or identified through the mass media, and meet the following criteria:

++ Possess exemplary revolutionary moral qualities, serve as outstanding examples of determination to improve themselves and strive for excellence, and take an exemplary lead in studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style within their units.

++ Undertake specific, practical, and effective actions in self-improvement, moral cultivation, practicing thrift, combating waste and misconduct, or develop numerous valuable initiatives and models that yield practical results and are replicated in the community for others to learn from and follow, contributing to socioeconomic development, disaster and epidemic prevention and control, maintaining security and national defense, ensuring social welfare, and charitable and humanitarian activities within the education sector and nationwide.

++ Individuals subject to annual performance evaluation and classification must consistently be rated as having fulfilled their duties well or above; individuals who are Party members must be evaluated and rated annually as Party members who have fulfilled their duties well or above. During that period, they must have been evaluated and rated as individuals who excellently fulfilled their duties, or as Party members who excellently fulfilled their duties (if they are Party members), for at least one year (for three-year interim-review commendations), two years (for five-year interim-review commendations), or four years (for final-review commendations for a 10-year period).

* Commendation nomination quotas

– Annual commendations

+ Prime Minister’s Certificate of Merit: Each unit under and directly subordinate to the Ministry shall select one collective or one individual with outstanding, exemplary achievements in studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style for nomination to the Minister of Education and Training for consideration and submission to the Prime Minister for a Certificate of Merit. The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) will select one collective and one individual with outstanding, exemplary achievements for consideration and submission to the Prime Minister for Certificates of Merit.

+ Minister of Education and Training’s Certificate of Merit: Each unit under and directly subordinate to the Ministry and each of the two national universities shall consider and select one collective or one individual outstanding in studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style for nomination to the Minister of Education and Training for a Certificate of Merit.

If a collective or individual nominated for the Minister of Education and Training’s annual Certificate of Merit is also a collective eligible for the Minister of Education and Training’s Certificate of Merit or an individual who won third prize or higher in the final round of the online competition “Youth Studying and Following Ho Chi Minh’s Thought, Morality, and Style,” the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) shall not consider that collective or individual for commendation under these guidelines.

+ Commendations at interim and final reviews

++ For the Third-Class Labor Order and the Prime Minister’s Certificate of Merit, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) will provide guidance after receiving guidance from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

++ Minister of Education and Training’s Certificate of Merit: Each unit under and directly subordinate to the Ministry and each of the two national universities shall consider and select one collective and one individual outstanding in studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style for nomination to the Minister of Education and Training for Certificates of Merit.

For further details, see Official Letter No. 6962/BGDĐT-TCCB issued on October 29, 2024.

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