Strengthening awareness of traffic safety, drug prevention, and school violence prevention in the 2024-2025 academic year

On August 29, 2024, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) issued Official Letter No. 4857/BGDĐT-GDCTHSSV on strengthening awareness and legal education on traffic safety, drug prevention, and school violence prevention for school and higher education students in the 2024-2025 academic year.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) requested that Departments of Education and Training, university systems, academies, universities, and teacher training colleges (collectively referred to as units) strengthen oversight of the implementation of the following activities:

(1) Traffic safety education

– Promote awareness, dissemination, and education on traffic safety laws and safe road use skills for school and higher education students; strengthen guidance for students on complying with traffic safety regulations when operating vehicles; and coordinate with school-based Youth Union, Student Association, and Young Pioneer organizations, competent authorities, and local administrations to ensure traffic order and safety around schools.

– Effectively implement coordination programs to strengthen awareness, dissemination, and education on traffic order and safety laws in educational institutions.

– Raise awareness among administrators, educators, employees, and school and higher education students and encourage them to strictly comply with traffic laws, specifically: “If you drink alcohol or beer, do not drive”; “Do not use a phone while operating a vehicle”; “Wear a certified helmet when riding a motorcycle, motorbike, or electric bicycle”; “Wear a seat belt when traveling in a car”; etc.; observe traffic rules; prevent accidents on steep mountain passes, mountain roads with a high risk of road traffic accidents, and railway level crossings; and comply with safety regulations when traveling on inland waterway vessels…

– Departments of Education and Training shall: (1) direct general education institutions in their jurisdictions to arrange, at the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year, for students’ parents to sign commitments with schools to strictly comply with helmet requirements for students riding motorcycles, mopeds, and electric bicycles, and not to allow students to use motorcycles or mopeds when they are underage or do not have a driver’s license; (2) direct educational institutions in their jurisdictions that contract automobile transport services for preschool children and school students to select reputable service providers with vehicles that meet quality and technical requirements for safe operation, and require drivers to demonstrate a strong sense of responsibility, communicate and interact respectfully with students, and strictly comply with laws on traffic order and safety.

– University systems, academies, universities, and teacher training colleges shall integrate awareness activities and legal education on traffic order and safety for students into Citizenship Orientation Week for school and higher education students at the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year; provide support, direction, and favorable conditions for youth volunteers and youth task forces to assist with traffic when welcoming newly enrolled students, to prevent congestion at local transport hubs.

– Develop specific plans to implement awareness activities and legal education on ensuring traffic order and safety during the National Day holiday on September 2, 2024, and “September—Peak Traffic Safety Month for Students Traveling to School.”

(2) Drug prevention

– Continue coordinating with competent local authorities to effectively implement the tasks and measures set out in MOET’s directive documents in 20243.

– Launch a campaign at the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year for school and higher education students to strictly comply with drug prevention laws, under the theme “Drug-free schools.”

– Arrange for school and higher education students to sign commitments with their institutions: “Not to illegally use, possess, trade, transport, or produce narcotic substances, or incite others to participate in any form.”

– Strengthen drug prevention awareness and education for administrators, educators, employees, school and higher education students, and parents, focusing on the consequences and harmful effects of drugs; tactics used to entice and lure young people and adolescents into drug use, particularly synthetic drugs and drugs disguised as products such as confectionery, beverages, herbs, and e-cigarettes; and measures for prevention and intervention. Deliver this information through websites, broadcasts, social media, school flag-raising assemblies, and school club meetings.

(3) School violence prevention

– Continue effectively implementing the Government’s Decree No. 80/2017/NĐ-CP dated July 17, 2017, on safe, healthy, and friendly educational environments and school violence prevention, as well as other documents issued by the Government and the Prime Minister throughout the education sector, to improve the effectiveness of school violence prevention; focus on providing information about students at risk of involvement in school violence and reporting incidents through the education sector’s database system.

– Effectively integrate legal education, knowledge, and life skills into subjects under the 2018 General Education Curriculum, including civic education, nature and society, experiential activities, and other subjects, incorporating knowledge and skills for preventing school violence; develop and introduce educational materials on school violence prevention skills for staff, teachers, students’ families, and students to consult and use.

– Strengthen coordination with relevant local agencies and organizations in raising legal awareness and providing legal education, ensuring school security and safety, teaching ethics, lifestyles, and life skills, and equipping students with knowledge and skills to prevent school violence; implement social work activities and school counseling for students.

– Direct educational institutions to build democratic, safe, healthy, and friendly schools; develop and effectively implement codes of conduct in educational institutions, ensuring the core values of Compassion – Respect – Responsibility – Cooperation – Honesty in each member’s relationships with others, their surroundings, and themselves; develop clubs appropriate to students’ talents, interests, circumstances, and ages; and expand experiential, sporting, and social activities to build and develop students’ competencies and character.

– Direct schools to strengthen coordination with families and promote families’ role in supervising and educating students; maintain regular two-way communication between schools and students’ families about school activities, students’ learning and personal development, and any unusual signs so that they can coordinate educational measures for students; schools shall support parents and equip them with the knowledge and skills to guide and educate their children and help them make progress.

– Improve the competencies and professional qualities of administrators and educators in accordance with professional title standards, teacher professional standards, and the requirements of the 2018 General Education Curriculum; provide professional development and training for administrators, teachers, and staff on educators’ ethics, psychological counseling, personal emotional regulation, interpersonal skills, and handling educational situations…

– Direct and conduct inspections and checks on the implementation of normative legal documents and directives on creating and maintaining safe, healthy, and friendly educational environments and preventing school violence; coordinate efforts to take strict action against violations of the law and educators’ ethics.

For more information, see Official Letter No. 4857/BGDĐT-GDCTHSSV dated August 29, 2024.

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