Leaders join students to welcome the new school year

On September 3, Party and State officials joined students at various schools across the country to celebrate the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year.

Politburo member and Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan beat the school drum to launch the new school year at a high school for gifted students in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang.

To mark the occasion, the NA Vice Chairwoman presented 5,000 notebooks, 200 school bags and one TV as gifts to the school.

NA Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan beats the school drum to launch the new school year at a high school for gifted students in Tien Giang province. (Credit: VNA)

Meanwhile, Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Le Thanh Hai attended a similar event at Nguyen Thi Minh Khai high school.

Le Thanh Hai said the education and training sector should continue reforming teaching methods and encourage students to self-study along with regularly holding extracurricular activities and scientific research.

According to the municipal Department of Education and Training, this school year the city has 2,124 schools with more than 1.52 million students.

The same day Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai beat the drum at a high school for gifted students in northern Thai Binh province, NA Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu and Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien celebrated the event at a high school in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan.

(Source: nhandan.org.vn)