Teachers' salaries are expected to increase from 2-7 million VND/month.

Teachers' salaries increased sharply

According to Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, immediately after the National Assembly passed the Law on Teachers, the Ministry proactively developed a system of documents guiding its implementation.

Regarding teacher recruitment, the Ministry is developing a Circular with the direction of assigning the Department of Education and Training to take the lead in implementation, or advising the Provincial People's Committee to decentralize and delegate authority in accordance with local realities.

Tomorrow, schools nationwide start the new school year 2025-2026.

The above approach ensures the implementation of the policy of reducing intermediaries, synchronizing recruitment quality (one-time recruitment can be registered for admission to many schools based on exam/examination results), saving costs, increasing opportunities for recruitment participants; at the same time, contributing to overcoming the situation of local surplus/shortage of teachers as well as ensuring the structure of the team according to grade level, subject, and educational activities.

In addition, the Ministry of Education and Training is also developing a Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Teachers, including regulations on the content and form of teacher recruitment.

It is expected that the recruitment will include 2 rounds of exams, compatible with current regulations on civil servant recruitment. However, round 2, in terms of expertise and profession, will be designed differently, closely following the actual process of teaching and education activities, ensuring the correct assessment of the pedagogical capacity and professional skills of candidates at each level of education and training.

This is expected to be an important innovation, aiming to overcome previous limitations when applying the general mechanism for civil servants without taking into account the specific characteristics of the teaching profession.

Regarding the salary regime, the Minister said that currently, the Ministry of Education and Training is finalizing a draft of detailed regulations on salaries, allowances and policies to attract and support teachers.

It is expected that the basic salary of all teachers will increase. Accordingly, the increase will be at least about 2 million VND, and at most it can be up to 5-7 million VND/person/month. This increase is only calculated on salary, not including other allowances.

Resolutely overcome the shortage of teachers

The Ministry of Education and Training informed that in the 2022-2026 period, the education sector will be supplemented with 65,980 positions by the Politburo . In the past two school years, the country has recruited more than 40,000 teachers.

However, due to the continuous increase in the number of students and classes, the demand for teachers has also increased sharply (the 2023-2024 school year requires 13,676 more teachers; the 2024-2025 school year requires about 22,000 more teachers). Therefore, many localities still lack teachers.

The main reason is due to limited recruitment sources. In particular, some subjects such as Information Technology, Foreign Languages, Arts, and Pedagogy are difficult to recruit because teachers' income is still low. In addition, the process of allocating and recruiting staff in many localities is still slow and prolonged.

Faced with this situation, to solve the problem of teacher shortage in the coming school year, the Ministry of Education and Training has been implementing many solutions such as: Directing training institutions to open major codes, train teachers according to the actual needs of localities, especially specific subjects; requiring localities to recruit enough assigned staff; directing localities to review and arrange the school network; piloting the autonomy mechanism in some public preschools and general schools; promoting socialization...

Along with solutions from the Central Government, the Ministry of Education and Training has requested localities to proactively recruit enough assigned staff, have policies to attract and support teachers, and arrange funding to implement teacher contracts according to regulations.