List of job positions and salary grades of education officials when removing rank division

In Decree 232/2026/ND-CP regulating the position of civil servants, the Government has issued a list of professional and nghiệp vụ civil servant positions in public non-business units in Appendix II issued together with the Decree.

For the field of education and training, currently there are only the following job positions: Preschool teachers; primary school teachers; secondary school teachers; high school teachers; university preparatory teachers; continuing education teachers; primary school teachers; secondary school teachers; vocational secondary school teachers; college lecturers; university lecturers; training and fostering lecturers (including: Lecturers, Principal Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, Professors, Associate Professors); lecturers of political schools (including: Lecturers, Principal Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, Professors, Associate Professors); training management; quality management of education.

Teachers were previously often divided into 3 ranks (Rank I, Rank II, Rank III) according to circulars regulating codes and professional title standards issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Thus, according to the new regulations, from July 2026, the ranking will be abolished, and new professional titles will be transferred according to Decree 232.

However, not all cases of promotion consideration must be stopped to move to the professional level according to the job position of Decree 232, but there will be a transition period for localities to complete the processes, procedures, and projects that have been implemented before.

In case the project to consider promotion and the plan to organize the recruitment and reception of teachers for consideration for professional title promotion of teachers have been approved by competent authorities before June 30, 2026, it will continue to be implemented according to the approved project and plan until the end of December 31, 2026.

Decree 232 also stipulates that the occupation level of each job position is uniformly regulated in the list of job positions and is uniformly applied nationwide. The occupation level is determined according to 5 levels (from 1 to 5), in which level 1 is the lowest level and level 5 is the highest level. This is also the basis used to rank salaries according to job positions.