Nguyen Thi Minh Khai High School, HCM

About: Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai High school (also known as Gia Long all-girls school, Áo Tim all-girls school) is a public high school in HCM City, Vietnam. The school was established in 1913 and is one of the best known high schools in Vietnamese education. It is named after Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai. Innovations: Since the previous decade, Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai High School has been a pioneer in teaching methods with a whole series of innovations of which the significant is that optimal ways of teaching and the application of IT are used for designing lectures. Thanks to the development of IT at the school, in 2004, the school was invited by Intel corporation to attend new projects and ways of educating. Thereupon, VVOB and Microsoft corporation continued to propose that we attend other study projects in the next years. These projects were welcomed by students and teachers. Success was acknowledged by the visit on February 27, 2006, of Mr. Craig Barrett, the ex-chairman of Intel Corporation, the deputy Minister of Education and Training, Nguyễn Tấn Phát, and other superior officials. In 2008, VVOB corporation invited the physics group to record a lesson in order to provide teaching material for the other countries participating in the projects. Exchanges and cooperation: The school welcomes 2 delegations of French schools every school year, and sends 2 groups to France for study exchanges. The school also links to famous universities in Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. It also cooperates in education, allowing the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University to hold teach-ins to introduce foreign study in Singapore.