Proposal to decentralize general education institutions after merger

At this working session, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) proposed decentralizing 36 contents to the Department of Education and Training, accounting for 52%; proposed transferring 33 contents to the People's Committee at the commune level, accounting for 48%.

This proposal, developed by the Ministry of Education and Training, is based on a thorough analysis of management capacity and practical requirements, ensuring the principle of strong decentralization but not laxity or division of expertise.

Specifically, the Ministryof Education and Training (MOET) proposed to assign the Department of Education and Training (DOET) full authority to manage the team of teachers and educational managers, including: recruitment, use, appointment, training, evaluation, and transfer - unified throughout the province.

Students of Chu Van An High School for the Gifted, Hanoi

Transfer all authority to reorganize general education institutions (primary schools, secondary schools), preschools and community education models to the People's Committees at the commune level, including the right to establish, permit operations, suspend, dissolve, merge and convert types.

The Ministry proposed transferring the authority to approve foreign integrated education programs and license the organization of international foreign language exams from the Ministry of Education and Training to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee or the Director of the Department of Education and Training.

Allow the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to decide to establish representative offices of foreign vocational education institutions in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Education and Training proposed to develop a set of indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing the decentralization model in education, as a basis for regular inspection and monitoring at the local level.

The Ministry of Education and Training, based on a review of the current legal system, has identified 69 state management contents on education currently assigned to the People's Committees at the district level that need to be adjusted in a direction consistent with the two-level local government organization model.

At the meeting, opinions from ministries and branches highly appreciated the efforts of the Ministry of Education and Training, which was the first ministry to send the draft decree to the Ministry of Justice for appraisal. Opinions said that the Ministry of Education and Training needs to clarify more tasks, "which is decentralized, which is delegated"; and more clearly define general authority and specific authority.

Concluding the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long requested the Ministry of Education and Training to review and compile all existing tasks and clearly state and define the authority of each level. At the same time, there needs to be a specific explanation for decentralization and delegation of authority, avoiding the extreme of "retaining too much or pushing everything away". Each task retained needs to have a clear explanation as to why.

It is important to note that only those tasks that are responsible for unified management nationwide should be retained. Try to decentralize as much as possible, the Deputy Prime Minister stated.

The Ministry of Education and Training needs to study and increase the authority delegated to the commune level. With tasks in this field, the grassroots level can perform more.

The Ministry needs to decentralize more thoroughly, retaining only tasks of national or highly specialized nature.

The Deputy Prime Minister agreed with some contents on transferring authority from the Government and the Prime Minister to the Minister of Education and Training, and noted the need to consult local opinions during the decentralization process; not to leave any work undone.

Previously, the Ministry of Education and Training issued an official dispatch requesting localities to maintain educational public service units and transfer to commune-level authorities the function of state management of education for secondary schools, primary schools and kindergartens.

This is carried out according to Conclusion No. 137-KL/TW dated March 28 of the Politburo and Secretariat on the Project on rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a 2-level local government organization model.

The Ministry proposed that the provincial People's Committee identify the state management contents of education that the district level is implementing to transfer to the Department of Education and Training or the commune-level People's Committee.

Currently, secondary schools, primary schools, and kindergartens are managed by the Department of Education and Training. Commune authorities only manage private, independent nursery groups and kindergartens.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/de-xuat-phan-quyen-co-so-giao-duc-pho-thong-sau-sap-nhap-20250523223909760.htm