The above content is mentioned by the Ministry of Education and Training in the report for the 2025-2026 school year.
Currently, there are nearly 37,000 public kindergartens and general schools nationwide. The government aims to reduce the number of schools by at least 30%, and places with favorable conditions reduce by about 50%.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Education and Training said that after the arrangement, it is expected to transfer and rearrange over 20,000 management officials (principals, vice-principals). Among them, 11,000 people will be arranged as teachers, contributing to overcoming the long-standing shortage; the rest will be arranged for other jobs or retire early, and will retire according to regulations and aspirations.
The whole country implements school rearrangement according to the general policy, completing before August 30, 2026.
The Ministry of Education and Training clearly stated that the arrangement of education institutions to streamline management focal points associated with the restructuring of staff in the direction of reducing education management staff and increasing direct teaching staff.
Maintain stable student scale at school sites, branches, arrange, and effectively coordinate the teaching staff to improve management capacity and investment efficiency to improve teaching and learning quality.
Two arrangement models are applied, including large-scale single-level schools (with branches and school sites) and inter-level general schools.
Some principles are to prioritize arranging schools at the same level or close to each other; not to merge kindergartens with general schools, between general schools and vocational education centers - continuing education, between specialized schools and mass schools. In addition, each commune has at least one kindergarten, one general school; ensure access to education, not let disadvantaged students drop out of school...
According to statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training, in the 2025-2026 school year, the whole country has nearly 1.3 million preschool and general education teachers and about 98,500 educational institution administrators.
