On this occasion, the Minister of Education and Training shared: "I would like to send to all generations of teachers, administrators and education staff across the country my best wishes, deep gratitude and wishes for health, happiness and success.
The 2025-2026 school year is the year of implementing a series of major policies and guidelines of the Party and State related to education and training. It is the year when the education sector enters a breakthrough period, comprehensive development, towards modernization and quality improvement in the spirit of Resolution 71-NQ/TW of the Politburo . In that context, I hope that each teacher will continue to maintain their faith and love for the profession, constantly learn, create, and innovate teaching and management methods to meet the requirements of the new development era."
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son
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TRANSPARENCY IN ASSESSMENT, SELECTION AND TRAINING OF TEACHERS
Dear Minister, the Law on Teachers will come into effect from 2026. Could you please tell us what the Ministry of Education and Training will do to bring the law into practice soon, meeting the expectations of the majority of teachers across the country?
As soon as the National Assembly passed the Law on Teachers, the Ministry of Education and Training developed and submitted to the Government 3 decrees and 14 circulars, ensuring they take effect simultaneously when the Law on Teachers takes effect on January 1, 2026. These documents are built in a standardized and better direction for teachers, with some notable points.
First of all, it is the standardization and synchronization in the whole system when implementing the consolidation of two systems of standards (professional titles and professional standards) into a system of titles associated with professional competency standards, applied uniformly to both public and non-public. This aims to create a common quality level for the entire team; ensure fairness in access to quality education for students; increase transparency and accessibility in the assessment, selection and training of teachers.
In addition, regulations on the content and methods of teacher recruitment will be adjusted in line with pedagogical practice, ensuring quality input, appropriate to each level of education and training level. Policies on salaries, allowances, support, and teacher attraction will also be reviewed and supplemented to help increase income and improve the lives of teachers.
Over the past long period of time, we can see the determination and perseverance of the Minister to change many policies towards teachers, including the recruitment and use of teaching staff. A typical example is the delegation of the right to recruit, mobilize and transfer staff to the education sector. Could you please tell us how the Ministry of Education and Training has been implementing this policy up to now?
Currently, the Ministry of Education and Training is presiding over the drafting of a decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Teachers and a Circular regulating the authority to recruit teachers. Accordingly, the authority to recruit, mobilize, and transfer teachers in preschool, general education, continuing education, and public specialized schools is proposed to be assigned to the Department of Education and Training to preside over implementation.
In the draft resolution of the National Assembly on a number of specific and outstanding mechanisms and policies to make breakthroughs in education and training development, the Ministry of Education and Training also proposed assigning the Director of the Department of Education and Training to exercise the authority to recruit and receive teachers, managers of educational institutions and staff in preschools, general education, continuing education, specialized schools and public vocational high schools in the province.
Teachers play a decisive role in ensuring the quality of education.
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6 INNOVATIONS IN TEACHER TRAINING
How will the recruitment of teachers change when the education sector is the focal point and advisor? In addition, how will teacher training have to change to meet a series of new requirements, Minister?
The Ministry of Education and Training is drafting a Decree detailing a number of articles on the Law on Teachers and detailing the content and methods of teacher recruitment, ensuring that the recruitment content is based on the standards of the teaching profession, the recruitment method is through examination or selection, including pedagogical practice. This is the basis for selecting people with sufficient capacity and qualities, especially pedagogical practice capacity to immediately meet the teaching and education tasks when recruited into the industry, and at the same time, it is also consistent with the orientation of eliminating the regulations on internship for civil servants when the revised Law on Civil Servants is passed by the National Assembly in the near future.
Teachers are considered the foundation and pillar of education. Therefore, innovation in teacher training is the key to successfully implementing innovation and breakthrough in education and training development. The Ministry of Education and Training has been, is and will be implementing a series of innovations related to teacher training.
In the AI era, teachers must change their role to guiding, instructing, supporting, developing students' learning and self-learning capacity, and lifelong learning.
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The first is to innovate the objectives and content of teacher training programs towards developing comprehensive pedagogical professional capacity, helping teachers become organizers, guides and support students in learning; reduce the content of academic theory, increase the amount of practice time, pedagogical internship, lesson research and real-life professional experience. Increase the number of courses on active teaching methods, modern teaching methods, student capacity assessment, life skills education, life values, international integration capacity and critical thinking...
The second is to innovate training methods and forms. That is to organize training according to a flexible and open model, creating lifelong learning opportunities for students and teachers. The assessment of pedagogical students should be based on their professional practice capacity, ability to design learning activities, organize teaching and solve pedagogical situations, instead of just based on the results of theoretical exams.
Third is to improve teachers' technological and digital capacity. Pedagogical schools need to integrate "digital transformation in education" into their training programs; at the same time, build educational technology laboratories and digital pedagogical practice centers, creating conditions for students to experience and practice technology skills during their studies.
Fourth , strengthen the connection between teacher training colleges and high schools. Teacher training students need to participate in class observation, teaching assistantship, experiential teaching, and lesson research right from their second and third years at university. Conversely, key teachers and excellent teachers at high schools should participate in teaching or guiding internships at teacher training colleges. This helps to connect theory with practice and improve the quality of training.
Fifth is to innovate the training and evaluation of teachers after training: build and deploy a regular training system, online, through a digital learning network, to help teachers regularly update new methods, technologies and professional skills. The assessment and classification of teachers must be carried out according to the professional standards of teachers of general education institutions, ensuring fairness, transparency, and linking with student education results, professional qualities and practical capacity.
The sixth is to internationalize teacher training: expand cooperation with educational institutions and universities with prestigious pedagogical training in the region and the world; implement programs to exchange lecturers and students, cooperate in training, recognize credits, as well as research and approach international professional standards for teachers.
Minister Nguyen Kim Son inspected the review and knowledge preparation work for students in Gia Lai to prepare for the new school year 2025 - 2026.
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COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS TO HELP TEACHERS WORK WITH PEACE OF MIND
At the beginning of the new school year, the Minister shared that teachers' salaries will increase after implementing the Teachers' Law and policies. The teaching staff is looking forward to this information, but also hopes that the traditional allowances and benefits for teachers will be maintained in addition to the new salary calculation method. What can the Minister share about this wish of teachers?
The Ministry of Education and Training is developing a Decree regulating salary and allowance policies for teachers. According to the draft Decree, teachers are expected to receive a special salary coefficient in addition to the salary and allowance policies that teachers currently receive.
Specifically, the draft Decree currently stipulates that "Teachers are entitled to preferential allowances according to their profession, seniority allowances for teachers and other allowances according to the provisions of law. The beneficiaries of allowances, the allowance levels, and the method of calculating allowances shall comply with the provisions of law and the provisions of this Decree".
In addition to preferential policies on salary and allowances, teachers also especially need to be "untied" in terms of working conditions, school cultural environment, etc. Could you please tell us what solutions the Ministry will continue to implement so that teachers can feel secure in their dedication and be motivated to innovate and be creative?
One of the outstanding policies of the Law on Teachers is to affirm the position, protect the honor and prestige of the teaching profession. Accordingly, teachers are identified as the core force of the education sector, playing a decisive role in ensuring the quality of education; are guaranteed rights in professional activities commensurate with their position; have the right to be proactive in professional activities... The Law also stipulates what organizations and individuals are not allowed to do to teachers, and stipulates how to handle violations of the prestige, honor and dignity of teachers.
In addition to salary and allowances, teachers also enjoy support, attraction and promotion policies, including: subsidies according to the nature of work and region; training and development support; periodic health care support and occupational health care; and being arranged public housing or collective housing or house rental support when working in particularly difficult areas.
At the same time, there is a policy to attract and promote highly qualified, talented, specially gifted, and highly skilled people to work in particularly difficult areas; teachers in a number of important and essential fields...
These policies and regimes will be specified in the documents guiding the implementation of the Law on Teachers, expected to take effect simultaneously from January 1, 2026.
The above policies, together with regulations on professional standards, appointment of teacher titles, recruitment, employment, honoring, and rewarding teachers, etc., will be comprehensive solutions to help teachers feel secure in their work, focus on professional activities, and create motivation for teachers to improve their capacity and continuously develop their careers.
Thank you very much, Minister!
AI cannot replace the role of teachers but poses new requirements
Whether the role of teachers will be "shaken" or replaced by AI is a very important question for every teacher in the context of strong AI development. AI cannot replace the role of teachers, but it poses new requirements for teachers: lifelong learning, understanding AI to teach people in the AI era; teachers must change their primary role from imparting knowledge to guiding, instructing, supporting, developing learning capacity and self-learning, lifelong learning of learners.
The Ministry of Education and Training has identified that teachers and educational administrators must be the pioneers in applying AI, guiding and instructing learners to use AI responsibly. Teachers must regularly update and innovate teaching, learning, testing and assessment methods to adapt and help students develop critical thinking and creativity in the new context.
The Ministry of Education and Training is well aware that this is a great opportunity to create a breakthrough, but it is also a challenge that requires the industry to have a strong transformation, especially for the teaching staff. The position of teachers is not only not "shaken" but also becomes more important, however, the role of teachers needs to change greatly.
Pioneering in innovation, teachers will strengthen their position and trust with society.
To adapt and effectively utilize the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), it requires teachers and education managers to have appropriate AI capabilities to adapt to the development of AI and preserve core values of education such as honesty, promoting creative thinking and self-learning ability of learners.
Currently, the Ministry of Education and Training is directing educational institutions to strengthen training, raise awareness, understanding and capacity to apply AI to lead and master AI applications in educational institutions. The Ministry is directing the development of AI education programs that can be applied from primary school students to equip learners with awareness, understanding and capacity to understand AI, know the scope and limitations of AI and gradually apply AI in a controlled and responsible manner in educational activities.
In addition, the education sector is focusing on perfecting institutions and regulations on the transformation and application of AI in education, promulgating and perfecting regulations and guidelines, including a handbook on the use of AI in educational institutions, a code of conduct for using AI, and regulations on security, data use, and privacy. This is an important legal framework to ensure responsible and safe application of AI and preserve ethical and humanistic values in education.
In addition, the draft Circular on the digital competency framework for teachers, including AI competency, is also being urgently completed and issued, serving as a basis for guiding the training and assessment of AI competency for teachers.
When teachers are fully equipped with skills, recognized and become pioneers in innovation, the trust and position of teachers in the eyes of society will be affirmed and firmly consolidated.
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