Chương I Nghị định 80/2017/NĐ-CP: Những quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope and regulated entities

1. This Decree provides regulations on a safe, healthy and friendly education environment which prevents and stops school violence.

2. This Decree applies to pre-primary educational institutions, secondary educational institutions, continuing educational institutions, vocational training institutions, special education schools, foreign invested educational institutions and joint training educational institutions in Vietnam (hereinafter referred to as "educational institutions”), literacy classes, foreign language classes, computer classes, skill classes, classes for the gifted, cultural classes, classes for students under 18 having difficulties in going to school (hereinafter referred to as "independent classes"); related agencies, organizations and individuals.

Article 2. Definitions

In this Decree, the following terms are construed as follows:

1. The education environment has all the physical and mental conditions which can affect the education, learning, training and development activities of the students.

2. A safe education environment is an environment that protects the students from physical and mental damages.

3. A healthy education environment is an environment without social evils and violence; the students, managerial staff, teachers and employees in such environment have a healthy lifestyle and behave appropriately.

4. A friendly education environment is an environment where students are treated respectively, fairly, equally and compassionately; they are allowed to enhance democracy and provided with favorable conditions for developing their virtues and potential.

5. School violence includes torture, abuse and beating; physical abuse; verbal abuse, dignity and honor violations; isolation and other actions that damage the physical and mental health of students at the educational institutions or in the independent classes.