Merging commune level, will school principals and vice principals be cut?

In Official Dispatch No. 1581, the Ministry of Education and Training requested 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 preschools.

For vocational education centers and continuing education centers under the district People's Committee, they will be transferred to the Department of Education and Training for management. At the same time, they will be reorganized to provide management services according to inter-commune and ward areas.

Schools remain the same after the commune-level merger. (Illustration photo)

At the same time, the Department of Education and Training has the right to recognize, appoint, dismiss, transfer, and change job positions of principals and vice principals of schools.

Up to now, the schools basically remain the same and are not included in the merger. This means that the positions of principals and vice principals of the schools remain the same and have not changed.

Decentralization and stronger delegation of power to the Department of Education and Training

After organizing and arranging the authorities at all levels, the Department of Education and Training is decentralized and delegated the authority to perform the following functions and tasks related to teacher management:

- Advise and submit to the Provincial People's Committee and competent authorities to decide on job positions, civil servant payroll, and total number of employees at public schools.

- The Department of Education and Training carries out recruitment, employment, appointment, change of job titles, training, fostering, and evaluation of teachers, education managers, and staff of public schools.

- The Department of Education and Training is also responsible for developing plans for recruitment, use, training and development of teachers in localities and schools in the province.

- The Department of Education and Training ensures sufficient staffing of civil servants and sufficient number of employees according to the project approved by the Provincial People's Committee. At the same time, it is responsible for explaining the activities, quality of education, teachers, workers and students.

- The Department of Education and Training has the right to recognize, appoint, dismiss, transfer, and change job positions of principals and vice principals of schools.

- The Department of Education and Training is responsible for regularly updating information on teachers and managers in the national database on education and management levels such as the Provincial People's Committee and the Ministry of Education and Training.

Previously, public teacher recruitment was carried out like general civil servant recruitment, by the Department of Home Affairs and the People's Committees at district/provincial levels.

Thus, in the coming time, the function of recruiting teachers at all levels will be decentralized and delegated more strongly to the Department of Education and Training of localities (for preschool level, the commune will decide on recruitment). This can be considered one of the breakthrough decisions of the education sector, expected to solve the problem of local teacher shortage in localities and use the right talent for schools.

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