Firstly, to affirm the position and protect the honor and prestige of the teaching profession.
The important position of teachers in society, including both public and private school teachers, is defined by ensuring that all teachers are respected, protected, and honored. Teachers are "special officials" and "special workers" whose rights in professional activities are guaranteed to be commensurate with their status; including the right to be respected and to have their reputation, honor, and dignity protected.
At the same time, they must fulfill obligations worthy of the noble title – “teacher” – including the obligation to uphold the qualities, reputation, honor, dignity, and ethics of a teacher, to be exemplary and role models in their professional activities and conduct in social relationships.
The Law on Teachers stipulates what organizations and individuals are prohibited from doing to teachers, and prescribes penalties for violations that infringe upon the reputation, honor, and dignity of teachers, especially severe penalties if such acts occur within educational institutions or while teachers are performing their professional duties, in order to protect the honor and reputation of the teaching profession.
Secondly, teachers' salaries are ranked highest in the administrative and public service salary scale.
The Law on Teachers stipulates that "Teachers' salaries shall be ranked highest in the administrative and public service salary scale system" and assigns the Government to regulate in detail the salary policy for teachers. This is an important basis for the Government to make regulations adjusting teachers' salaries to ensure the principle of "ranking highest".
In addition, according to the law, teachers are also entitled to special allowances, responsibility allowances, preferential allowances, subsidies for disadvantaged areas, allowances for inclusive education, seniority allowances, mobility allowances, etc., contributing to an overall increase in income.
Thirdly, some policies should be implemented to provide better incentives, support, and incentives for teachers.
The Law on Teachers stipulates that all teachers, both public and private, are entitled to allowances based on the nature of their work and region; support for training and professional development; support for regular health check-ups and occupational health care; and are provided with official housing or collective accommodation, or receive housing allowance when working in particularly difficult areas.
At the same time, there are policies to attract and utilize highly qualified, talented, and gifted individuals with exceptional skills; to work in particularly difficult areas; and educators in key and essential fields…
Along with salary policies, incentive and support policies to attract teachers are a comprehensive solution to attract talented individuals to the teaching profession, attract talented people from key professions to become teachers, attract teachers to work in disadvantaged areas, ensure consistent quality across regions, and retain teachers for long-term service in the sector.
In addition, the Law on Teachers stipulates that preschool teachers, if they so wish, may retire at an age no more than 5 years younger than that stipulated in the Labor Code and will not have their pension reduced due to early retirement if they have contributed to social insurance for 15 years. Professors, associate professors, doctors, or teachers working in specialized fields may retire at an older age.
Fourth, standardize and develop the workforce – improve the quality of education.
The law unifies the two systems of standards (professional titles and professional standards) into a single system, the professional standards for teachers, which applies uniformly to both public and private school teachers.
The professional standards for teachers are used in the recruitment, placement, evaluation, training, and professional development of teachers; and in the development and implementation of policies for the development of the teaching staff.
This regulation aims to standardize the teaching staff in public and private educational institutions, ensure a common standard of staff quality, and create equal opportunities for career advancement and development for teachers in all types of educational institutions.
Fifth, increase the autonomy of educational institutions and empower the education sector to take initiative.
According to the Law on Teachers, the heads of public vocational education institutions and public higher education institutions, regardless of the level of autonomy granted, have the right to proactively recruit teachers.
In addition, the National Assembly assigned the Minister of Education and Training the authority to regulate the recruitment of teachers in preschool, primary, secondary, and continuing education institutions. At the same time, it assigned the Government the authority to provide detailed regulations on the authority to transfer teachers, ensuring the role of the education sector in proactively managing the distribution of teachers among educational institutions.
Granting authority to the Ministry of Education in the recruitment and employment of teachers is a crucial solution to address policy bottlenecks regarding teachers, especially in solving the problem of teacher shortages and surpluses; and to proactively coordinate and plan short-term, medium-term, and long-term teacher development plans for the future.
On June 16, 2025, at its 9th session, the 15th National Assembly passed the Law on Teachers, comprising 9 chapters and 42 articles. This is a significant milestone, with great importance not only for the entire teaching staff and the education sector but also for the entire Vietnamese nation. For the first time in history, the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam enacted a separate law fully regulating the position, role, rights, obligations, and policies for the teaching staff; concretizing the major policy of the Party and State in honoring, caring for, protecting, and developing the teaching staff – the key force in the cause of education.
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