Teacher Recruitment: Boldly Empowering Heads of Institutions

Teachers and students of Thi Xuan Secondary School (Nung Tri Cao Ward, Cao Bang) offer incense to commemorate heroic martyrs. Photo: School Fanpage. — Teachers and students of Thi Xuan Secondary School (Nung Tri Cao Ward, Cao Bang ) offer incense to commemorate heroic martyrs. Photo: School Fanpage.

However, concerns about the specific decentralization and delegation of power according to the draft "Resolution on a number of specific and outstanding mechanisms and policies to make breakthroughs in education and training development" submitted by the Government to the National Assembly show that there are still many issues that need to be resolved.

In reality, the authority to manage, recruit, and transfer teachers is currently dispersed among many levels, causing overlap, locality, and lack of flexibility. The draft Resolution stipulates that the Director of the Department of Education and Training (DET) is assigned the authority to recruit, receive, mobilize, transfer, and second teachers, educational administrators, and staff in public educational institutions in the area.

However, many opinions suggest that the authority to recruit at preschool, primary and secondary levels should be transferred to the commune level to be proactive and linked to the responsibility of the head, in line with the spirit of implementing a two-level government, which is strong decentralization to the grassroots and local levels... On the contrary, if transferred to the commune, the concern about the shortage of teachers local as before, especially in disadvantaged areas with few recruitment sources. Many pedagogical graduates also expressed their wish that the Department of Education and Training would recruit them and after a period of time, decide to transfer them back.

Looking back at previous years, the recruitment of teachers at preschool, primary and secondary levels was under the authority of the district level. Since July 1, when the two-level government was implemented, the authority and scope of the Department of Education and Training has been greatly expanded compared to before. At the same time, there have been recommendations that commune chairmen and principals have the right to recruit teachers.

In the context that many localities have always been in a state of teacher shortage in recent years, no matter how it is implemented, the ultimate goal must still be to ensure the requirement of "where there are students, there are teachers". And each school, each commune, ward, and locality has different requirements for recruiting teachers, so they need to be empowered to truly recruit personnel suitable for the job position and the educational development strategy of the facility and locality. Boldly empower recruitment to the facility and have a transparent and public monitoring and management mechanism as well as promote accountability so that the head is responsible for recruiting talent for his unit.

If this policy is implemented, it will bring many benefits such as solving the shortage of teachers, increasing the initiative for localities and schools, but at the same time, it will also pose challenges in terms of transparency, recruitment capacity and ensuring teacher quality. Therefore, in addition to a strict monitoring mechanism, it is necessary to develop a set of standardized criteria for each job position, train capacity for commune level in advising on education policies as well as have policies to fully support teachers to recruit teachers with enough heart and capacity and long-term commitment to the career of educating people.

Lam Nhi

Source: https://daidoanket.vn/tuyen-dung-giao-vien-manh-dan-trao-quyen-cho-nguoi-dung-dau-co-so.html

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