The People’s Committee of central Thua Thien-Hue Province has approved a VND178 billion (USD8.9 million) budget to rebuild a secondary school.
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| Projected image of the future Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School |
Construction of the new Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School, the most modern of its kind in the province, will begin in early 2011 and be completed within six years.
The new school will cover an area of 36,380 square metres in An Van Duong Urban Area (seven times larger than the current school) and serve nearly 1,300 pupils. The school will have be four stories tall with 32 classrooms, 20 rooms for practice, one meeting hall, one library and two labs.
It will also include a four-floor dormitory, one restaurant, one multi-functional sports room, one swimming pool and several other facilities.
Master Nguyen Huu Bi, Headmaster of Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School, said the modern learning environment will help boost creativity and physical strength of students.
Set up in 1940, Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School has always been a prestigious education organisation of Thua Thien-Hue Province. The school’s annual rate of pupils achieving high study marks is at least 60%.
In 1999, the school received the state president’s Labour Medal of third class. It has also been presented with many certificates of merit from the Ministry of Education and Training.
