Prime Minister directs 3 key tasks of the education sector

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed an Official Dispatch dated May 10, 2025 on organizing the High School Graduation Exam, ensuring the staffing of preschool and general education teachers and summer vacation for children and students in 2025.

The dispatch stated: The preparation and organization of this year's High School Graduation Exam takes place in the context of the arrangement of two-level local governments; more than 22 million children and students are preparing to end the school year and are about to have summer vacation.

All levels, sectors and localities have focused on implementing the Party and State's educational and training policies and guidelines and achieved many positive results.

However, there are still limitations and shortcomings; including the situation of local surplus and shortage of teachers in some localities, with about 60,000 assigned positions not yet recruited while there is still a shortage of more than 120,000 teachers at all levels of public preschool and general education; there are still situations of unsafety, accidents, and drowning for children and students.

To ensure that the 2025 High School Graduation Exam (Exam) is held safely, seriously, concisely, and effectively; to ensure that there are enough teachers for the 2025-2026 school year and that children and students can have fun and exercise in a healthy, safe, and beneficial way during the summer vacation, the Prime Minister requested a number of tasks.

In which, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long is assigned to direct, urge, inspect and handle difficulties according to the authority of the tasks.

The local chairman is fully responsible for the graduation exam in the area.

Regarding the preparation and organization of the 2025 High School Graduation Exam, the Prime Minister requested the Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to take full responsibility for the Exam in their localities, ensuring that the organization of the Exam is not affected by the arrangement of the apparatus.

Strictly implement the direction of the Prime Minister in Official Dispatch No. 58/2025 and Directive No. 37/2024 on directing and coordinating the organization of the Exam to ensure quality, safety, seriousness, efficiency, reduce pressure, and create favorable conditions for students.

Focus on preparing carefully and fully all conditions, having a specific plan and method to organize the Exam to ensure 6 things are clear: "clear people, clear work, clear responsibility, clear authority, clear time, clear results"; strengthen the inspection of all stages and steps, especially the stage of assigning responsibilities to relevant agencies, organizations and individuals responsible throughout the process of preparing and organizing the Exam.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Education and Training to strengthen inspection of the preparation and organization of the Exam related to ensuring human resources and conditions for organizing the Exam are adequate, thorough, and in accordance with regulations. Promptly handle, resolve, and recommend competent authorities to handle any problems that arise beyond their authority during the preparation and organization of the Exam.

Propose that the Central Executive Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union closely coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training to direct, provide specific guidance, and organize exam support activities to support candidates, candidates' families, and ensure order and safety during the exam.

The Head of Government also requested all levels, sectors, and mass organizations to direct and closely coordinate with the Education sector to support and create the most favorable conditions for candidates, families, and educational institutions in organizing the exam.

General education institutions and parents should pay attention to, guide and support students in reviewing and systematizing knowledge to create the most favorable conditions for students in terms of knowledge, capacity, physical and mental health so that they can have a comfortable and confident mindset to enter the exam and achieve the highest results.

Assign 2 Ministries to solve teacher shortage

Regarding ensuring the staffing of preschool and general education teachers, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Education and Training to coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs to review, urge and inspect the recruitment of teachers in localities to ensure that all assigned staffing is recruited; continue to review and propose to competent authorities to supplement the remaining preschool and general education teacher staffing compared to the prescribed standards of the education sector.

Research and find appropriate and effective solutions to overcome the shortage of teachers, ensuring 2 teaching sessions/day; do not let the arrangement and organization of the apparatus lead to a shortage of teachers, affecting students' learning.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is assigned to inspect and urge localities to recruit teachers according to the assigned payroll, overcome the surplus and shortage of teachers in educational institutions, and ensure the principle of "where there are students, there must be teachers in the classroom" but must be suitable to local realities and effective in arrangement.

The responsibility of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities is to focus on implementing: Proactively reviewing, arranging, and regulating preschool and general education teachers among educational institutions in the area to overcome the local surplus and shortage of teachers; increase the number of seconded teachers, inter-school and inter-level teaching.

There are synchronous and effective solutions to recruit the right and sufficient teachers according to the number of positions assigned by competent authorities, not allowing the situation of having positions but not recruiting; signing teaching contracts to promptly supplement the number of missing teachers according to regulations;

At the same time, consider and prioritize recruitment and signing of contracts according to authority for teachers who have had time to perform teaching contracts at educational institutions if they meet professional requirements and are in accordance with regulations; during the implementation process, if there are issues beyond authority, proactively report and propose to competent authorities.

Continue to develop and improve the quality of the teaching staff to meet the needs of implementing the new preschool and general education program. Research mechanisms and policies to attract teachers to work and stay long-term in the locality.

Create a safe, healthy summer playground to prevent drowning for children

Regarding the 2025 summer vacation for children and students, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Education and Training to direct and guide localities and educational institutions to implement management and education measures and strengthen coordination between schools and families to create conditions for children and students to have fun, participate in cultural and artistic activities, physical training, and practice life skills during the summer; manage children and students to prevent accidents, injuries, and drowning.

The People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities have the responsibility to direct and guide relevant agencies and organizations, closely coordinate with the Youth Union and mass organizations to create an environment for children to have healthy entertainment; practice life skills, participate in foreign language, cultural, artistic, sports and physical development activities.

Mobilize and encourage artists, artisans, athletes, and experts to organize cultural, artistic, and sports activities, develop talents; create a suitable environment for learning and using foreign languages ​​in the community, and healthy recreational and entertainment activities, attracting children, students, and university students to participate, contributing to educating ethics, lifestyle, behavioral culture, life skills, and improving the effectiveness of comprehensive education.

Propaganda and education to raise awareness and consciousness so that children know and comply with regulations on preventing and combating accidents, injuries, and drowning, especially in places with potential risks of unsafety and drowning. Clarify the responsibilities of agencies, departments, branches, schools and families in ensuring children's safety during the summer vacation.

At the same time, it is necessary to increase investment in facilities to organize clubs so that students can participate in physical activities, sports; practice life skills, foreign languages, arts, and organize swimming lessons in educational institutions.

The Prime Minister requested the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Central Council of the Young Pioneers to proactively propose and coordinate the implementation of propaganda and education on culture, arts, physical education, sports, life skills, prevention of drowning accidents and injuries, and safe swimming lessons for children and students in schools and in residential communities.

Minh Trang

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