The Ministry of Education and Training on the afternoon of April 10 introduced the outcomes of verification reflecting the subject “development of multi-functional polyurethane composite materials for fire resistance, heat insulation, and microbial resistance towards application in construction and life” of college students of Luong Van Tuy High School for the Gifted, Ninh Binh.
The challenge gained first prize in the nationwide science and technology competitors for college students in March, however was accused of having many factors which might be much like doctoral dissertations.
After reviewing and verifying, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) affirmed that the primary prize-winning subject of the National Science and Technology Research Competition for college students in the 2025-2026 faculty 12 months exhibits no indicators of plagiarism or copying.
According to the report, Luong Van Tuy Specialized High School has significantly carried out the work of deciding on concepts, approving plans and deciding on initiatives to take part on the provincial degree in accordance with rules and pointers; the method, time and topics of analysis are carried out in accordance with the Circulars promulgating the Contest Regulations.
The Ministry of Education and Training has established a Consulting Group to judge the profitable initiatives of the competition to advise on challenge analysis of 2 college students of Luong Van Tuy High School for the Gifted, Ninh Binh Department of Education and Training.
The advisory group consists of 5 consultants with doctoral levels or increased from prestigious increased training establishments and analysis institutes who’ve researched the award-winning challenge.
After analysis, the advisory group held a gathering, agreeing that, with the steering of academics and scientific instructors, based mostly on college students’ examination purposes, college students can fully implement this challenge. The content material associated to the synthesis of supplies based mostly on the optimized processes that academics and instructors have put ahead might be fully carried out by college students.
Students can perceive and conduct the evaluation of the outcomes of some measurements resembling DTA, XRD, FT-IR, as a result of these data are in the overall training program that they’re taught.
With the analysis plan proposed, the implementation of duties based mostly on verified and extremely repetitive procedures is totally possible beneath the steering of academics and the recommendation of scientists. Third, based mostly on plagiarism take a look at knowledge and publications, no plagiarism overlap is recorded with beforehand printed works.
The advisory group additionally gave the opinion that that is not a scientific analysis with absolute novelty however solely relative novelty, creativity and sensible worth, appropriate for the analysis capability on the normal training degree. The subject has excessive software worth and can even function a foundation for initiatives to use or invent college students in the sector of practical supplies and nanotechnology.
Overall, the subject exhibits no indicators of copying or plagiarism, however clearly exhibits selective inheritance mixed with impartial experimentation and scientific evaluation, thereby creating significant outcomes which might be in keeping with the analysis targets set out” – the Ministry of Education and Training affirmed.
Also according to the Ministry of Education and Training, the topic uses common methods and approaches in the field of polymer materials”, nonetheless, these are customary strategies, broadly accepted in scientific analysis. The analysis group has proactively designed experiments, chosen supplies, adjusted processes and constructed separate knowledge coefficients, displaying independence in implementation. Therefore, there is no such thing as a foundation to conclude that it’s a copy or plagiarism.
Regarding considerations concerning the necessity of organizing the competition, the Ministry of Education and Training emphasised that the competition is organized to actively implement the Party and State’s pointers and insurance policies on science and technology improvement, particularly Resolution No. 57, Resolution No. 71.
Not solely in Vietnam, international locations in the area and around the globe have organized nationwide competitions and participated in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).
In 2025, the Regeneron ISEF International Science and Engineering Fair was held in the US, gathering practically 1,700 college students from greater than 60 international locations with greater than 1,000 initiatives. At this truthful, the Vietnamese pupil delegation excellently gained 6 official prizes (2 second prizes, 1 third prize, 3 fourth prizes) and 4 particular prizes. This is the very best achievement ever of the Vietnamese pupil delegation.
This outcome exhibits that the competitors continues to be a significant tutorial playground, contributing to discovering and fostering college students’ scientific analysis capability and strengthening worldwide integration” – the Ministry of Education and Training affirmed.