Overview of Vietnam's education in the 2024-2025 school year

Students of Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted (HCMC) at the opening ceremony on the morning of September 5 - Photo: DUYEN PHAN

In the 2024-2025 school year, the country's education system will have 25,255,251 pupils and students. Of these, 2,068,522 will be university students.

Students study at 53,979 educational institutions. The total number of lecturers, teachers, educational administrators and workers is 1,659,589.

This data was compiled by the Ministry of Education and Training as of 5:30 p.m. on September 4, 2024.

In terms of the number of students, primary school has the largest number with more than 8.8 million students.

Next is secondary school and kindergarten. The number of university students is about 900,000 less than the number of high school students.

	Total	Public	Non-public
Nursery	696309	445640	250669
Kindergarten	4117080	3321428	795652
Elementary	8850300	8695206	155094
Junior high school	6514261	6414871	99390
High school	2987450	2652917	334533
College of Education	21329
University	2068522

Meanwhile, preschool is the level with the largest number of schools, with more than 13,000 schools. Meanwhile, all of the more than 12,000 independent preschools and nursery schools are non-public schools.

If we count more than 3,000 non-public kindergartens, the number of non-public kindergartens is greater than that of public schools.

This is also the only level of education where the number of non-public schools is greater than public schools.

	Total	Public	Non-public
Nursery	3		3
Kindergarten	1698	1565	133
Kindergarten	13455	10455	3000
Number of facilities: Nursery groups, kindergartens, independent preschools	12673		12673
Elementary	12137	11998	139
Junior high school	10743	10651	92
High school	2976	2463	513
College level teacher training	53	53	0
University	241	174	67

If we count the number of teachers, primary school has the largest number of students so the number of teachers is also the largest, more than 403,000 people. Preschool has the second largest number with over 381,000 people.

	1,324,473
Kindergarten	381385
Elementary	403205
Junior high school	304569
High school	158738
College level teacher training	2551
University	74025

The education sector lacks more than 113,000 teachers.

Statistics in April 2024 from the Ministry of Education and Training show that the whole country is still short of 113,491 teachers at all levels of preschool and general education.

Local teacher shortages occur in most localities, especially teachers of new subjects (English, IT, music , and fine arts).

The structure of the teaching staff is still unbalanced between subjects in the same grade level, between regions with different socio-economic conditions. The quota for allocating teachers to localities is mostly lower than the actual demand.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the reason for the teacher shortage is that the attraction to the industry is still limited, the number of teachers leaving their jobs is still high, and the source of teachers for some specific subjects is still lacking. In addition, recruitment in localities is slow, with about 72,000 assigned positions still unfilled.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/toan-canh-giao-duc-viet-nam-nam-hoc-2024-2025-2024090510153954.htm