Hanoi to Enhance Student Management with Comprehensive Digital Data Platform

Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, is accelerating its digital transformation in education and training, planning to build a new data platform from the 2026-2027 academic year to comprehensively manage each student's academic progress, health, and emotional state. This initiative is a significant step towards holistically improving the quality of education for approximately 2.3 million students. The cornerstone of this endeavor is the completion of assigning a Learning ID to all preschool and K-12 students across the city. This unique code will be linked to each student's academic record, ensuring seamless data continuity even through transfers or grade promotions. The data platform will shift the focus from mere data entry to data analysis and support. Through the Learning ID, students' academic achievements, digital report cards, and subject scores will be securely managed and analyzed, automatically generating detailed reports for classes, subjects, and teachers. Currently, digital report cards for 96.5% of the 1.76 million students, approximately 1.71 million, have been completed and digitally signed. Furthermore, student health data will be integrated. Information such as height, weight, vision, BMI, and medical history will be recorded in electronic health records, aiding in the early detection of issues like malnutrition and obesity, and facilitating personalized nutrition and exercise programs. To enhance school meal safety and nutrition, Hanoi has launched the "HanoiCheck" system for school nutrition and food safety. Notably, Hanoi is pioneering the implementation of a system to measure and track students' psychological states, emotional intelligence (EQ), and adaptive behaviors. This will enable schools to identify abnormal changes early and coordinate responses with families. A pilot implementation of the EQ competency framework is planned for 2026 in nine educational institutions representing three grade levels. City authorities anticipate that this digitized management system will lead to objective measurement of student progress, curbing superficial reporting and the "achievement disease" of excessive academic focus. A policy to measure student progress through city-wide common tests, using this progress as a teacher evaluation metric, has also been outlined. All collected data will be required to be transparent, substantive, and evidence-based. Source: Nhan Dan