Minister of Education and Training: Localities reserve teacher recruitment quotas to streamline staffing

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son pointed out that one of the reasons for the shortage of teachers is that some localities do not recruit all assigned positions but instead reserve quotas to streamline staffing.

The Minister of Education and Training has responded in writing to the petition of voters of Hung Yen province after the 9th session of the National Assembly.

Accordingly, voters in Hung Yen pointed out that the local shortage of teachers still exists, especially teachers of English, IT, music , and fine arts. If this problem is not resolved quickly, it will cause difficulties in implementing the curriculum and teaching plan.

Voters recommend that the Ministry of Education and Training have fundamental solutions to overcome this situation.

The Minister of Education and Training pointed out the fact that some localities do not recruit teachers, reserving quotas to streamline staffing.

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The Minister of Education and Training said that the Politburo has added 65,980 teaching positions for the 2022-2026 period.

Although in the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years, the whole country recruited more than 40,000 teachers, the number of students in the past two school years has continuously increased, leading to an increase in the number of classes and the number of teachers needed (in the 2023-2024 school year, the number of teachers needed increased by 13,676 teachers; in the 2024-2025 school year, the number of teachers needed increased by 22,000 teachers), leading to a shortage of teachers in many localities.

In addition, the shortage of teachers is also due to some basic reasons such as: the attraction to the education sector is still limited due to low income, at the same time the source of some subjects such as information technology, foreign languages, and arts is not much because students studying these majors have many other career options with higher incomes than being a teacher after graduation.

Furthermore, recruiting teachers for these subjects is also difficult due to low demand, especially for art subjects that require talent; teacher recruitment is slow because the process of allocating staff and recruiting teachers in localities takes a long time; some localities do not recruit all assigned staff but reserve quotas to streamline staff.

Faced with the shortage of teachers, the Minister said the Ministry of Education and Training has been and is continuing to implement a number of basic solutions.

In particular, directing teacher training institutions to open major codes and organize teacher training according to local needs, ensuring a source of teacher recruitment for localities, especially for new subjects and special subjects.

Direct, inspect and urge localities to recruit teachers to ensure sufficient staff assigned by competent authorities.

Direct localities to continue reviewing and arranging the network of schools and classrooms; piloting the autonomy mechanism for public preschool and general education facilities; promoting the socialization of education. Strengthen the leadership and direction role of local Party committees and authorities in solving the teacher shortage.

Along with the solutions of the Central Government, the Minister of Education and Training also pointed out the fact that by the end of the 2024-2025 school year, Hung Yen province (including the former Thai Binh province) still had 3,938 unused teacher positions and requested Hung Yen province not to streamline the staff by mechanically reducing the number of assigned teacher positions; to recruit teachers to ensure the correct subject structure and sufficient number of positions assigned by competent authorities.

As Thanh Nien reported, the draft resolution of the National Assembly on a number of specific mechanisms and policies to make breakthroughs in education and training development that the Ministry of Education and Training recently announced proposes to assign the director of the Department of Education and Training the authority to recruit, receive, mobilize, transfer, and second teachers, education managers, and staff in preschool and general education institutions at the provincial level.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/bo-truong-gd-dt-dia-phuong-de-danh-chi-tieu-tuyen-giao-vien-de-tinh-gian-bien-che-185251010121217894.htm