Regular education teachers will have 4-8 weeks of summer vacation.

The Draft Circular consists of 3 chapters and 12 articles, detailing the implementation of the Law on Teachers No. 73/2025/QH15, which was just passed by the 15th National Assembly on June 16, 2025 at the 9th Session.

Draft Circular regulating working regime for teachers teaching at continuing education centers and vocational education centers, including: working time, annual leave, teaching period norms, reduction of teaching period norms and conversion of other activities into teaching periods.

Regulations on working hours of continuing education teachers must be consistent with regulations on educational duration in continuing education programs and educational duration in vocational education programs; and must ensure the stability of current regulations on teaching, studying, and practicing time at enterprises for teachers teaching at the elementary level.

Due to the nature of the summer vacation not being fixed at 8 weeks like preschool, general education and continuing education teachers have to perform many other tasks besides teaching and educational activities, teachers' working hours are not fixed in a fixed number of weeks to allow for flexibility in assigning and arranging work.

The draft Circular stipulates that teachers' summer vacation time is implemented according to the rules and regulations of the continuing education institution, maximum 8 weeks, minimum 4 weeks. During the summer vacation, teachers participate in training and development according to the requirements of the job position, participate in high school graduation exams, enrollment, teach classes according to the training and development program, and educational activities of the center when summoned.

The draft Circular does not stipulate summer vacation time for directors and deputy directors as for principals and vice principals of general schools due to the nature of the center's work, which involves many educational and training activities during students' summer vacation.

However, allowing the center to arrange summer vacation time for teachers holding the position of educational institution management staff must be stipulated in the center's rules and regulations and must flexibly arrange summer vacation time to ensure that the center's activities take place normally and complete tasks assigned by competent authorities.

The above regulations ensure teachers' rights to summer vacation according to the Law on Teachers, overcoming the situation where some centers do not arrange summer vacation for teachers or arrange too short summer vacation.