The Ministry of Education and Training said that the shortage of teachers has reached an alarming level, directly affecting the implementation of the education program. According to statistics, as of May 2025, the whole country still lacks 102,097 teachers at all levels of preschool and general education in the payroll compared to the norm, and recent reports show that this number could be up to more than 120,000 people.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, this situation overloads the existing staff, reducing the quality of teaching and learning, especially in preschool and new subjects of the 2018 general education program.

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Teachers and students in Hanoi at the opening ceremony of the new school year 2025. Illustration photo: The Bang

A new point in the draft Resolution of the National Assembly on breakthrough mechanisms and policies for education and training development is to empower the Director of the Department of Education and Training to recruit, receive, mobilize, transfer, and second teachers, managers, and staff at preschool and general education institutions in the province.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the situation of local teacher surplus and shortage has been unresolved for many years because the authority for recruitment and secondment is currently decentralized to the district People's Committee for preschool, primary and secondary schools. This causes "fragmentation" of management: when one district has a surplus of teachers and another district has a shortage of teachers, it is impossible to mobilize them due to different authorities.

In addition, recruitment is not led by the education sector, leading to incorrect subject structure; the exam is the same as other sectors, so it cannot evaluate the pedagogical capacity of candidates who want to become teachers.

The National Assembly's draft Resolution on specific mechanisms and policies for education and training development also sets out many policies on human resources in the education sector.

Accordingly, the Government will prescribe a special preferential allowance regime, ensuring the minimum level according to Resolution 71-NQ/TW: 70% for preschool, general and vocational secondary school teachers; 30% for school staff; 100% for teachers in educational institutions for the disabled, specialized schools and particularly disadvantaged areas.

Localities are allowed to develop flexible and competitive recruitment, employment and remuneration mechanisms, not necessarily following the general civil servant salary scale, in order to attract and employ leading experts, international scientists and Vietnamese intellectuals abroad.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/ca-nuoc-con-thieu-hon-102-000-giao-vien-mam-non-pho-thong-2446689.html