The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has just posted and collected comments from relevant agencies, organizations, and individuals on the MOET Electronic Information Portal on the draft Circular amending and supplementing Circular No. 29/2024/TT-BGDDT dated December 30, 2024 of the Minister of MOET regulating tutoring and extra classes.
In the process of drafting the Circular, the Ministry of Education and Training sent opinions to a number of departments of education and training to assess the impact and listen to feedback from local management practices. Based on the contributed opinions, the Ministry of Education and Training has researched and absorbed the maximum valid opinions to complete the draft, ensuring feasibility and suitability to practical conditions, before officially collecting widespread opinions from the whole society according to regulations.
Minimize disguised tutoring, forcing students to take extra classes
Part-time teaching and learning activities are activities related to many legal fields, including education, teachers, civil servants, anti-corruption, financial management, security and order, and the rights of learners. These are not conditional business services. Therefore, the management of part-time teaching and learning activities needs to be implemented in an overall, synchronous direction, ensuring legal discipline, publicity, transparency and suitability with reality.
The draft Circular does not prohibit legitimate tutoring, does not restrict the legitimate learning needs of learners and the teaching rights of teachers according to the provisions of law. The focus of the draft is to strengthen management solutions according to regulations, minimize acts of disguised tutoring, forcing students to take extra classes, and profiteering from tutoring activities, affecting a healthy educational environment.
At the same time, the draft Circular clarifies the scope of regulation, identifying enhanced education activities, educational activities according to the needs and legitimate interests of learners to comprehensively develop students, organized according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training, not within the scope of regulation of tutoring and extra classes. Clarifying this content is to avoid inconsistent understanding, ensuring clear distinction between tutoring and extra classes and legal and necessary educational activities in schools.
Principals have the right to increase extra teaching time in schools
A consistent content of the draft is to strengthen the management of teacher tutoring behavior; link tutoring activities with professional ethics standards, obligations, powers and things that teachers are not allowed to do according to the provisions of the Law on Teachers.
The draft also clarifies the responsibility of the Principal in managing extracurricular activities at the school. The Principal is given the right to be proactive and flexible in organizing implementation, including the right to propose increasing the amount of extracurricular time at the school for students who are allowed to organize extra classes according to the provisions of Circular No. 29/2024/TT-BGDDT, based on the actual needs, conditions for organizing teaching and learning of the school and the requests of teachers, parents, and students.
The proposal to increase tutoring time must be considered and decided according to the right authority, ensuring that it does not expand the subjects, does not distort tutoring and extra classes, and at the same time, the Principal must be responsible for fully explaining the necessity, rationality, transparency, and effectiveness of the organization and implementation according to the provisions of the Law on Public Employees and related legal regulations.
Must report the relationship between tutors and those registering for tutoring business
The draft Circular supplements regulations on the reporting responsibility of teachers when participating in extra classes outside the school. In which, it is required to supplement a clear report on the relationship with the entity registered to operate the extra teaching facility.
This regulation aims to transparentize tutoring activities, prevent the abuse of positions, powers or relatives to organize and control tutoring activities causing conflicts of interest, in accordance with the spirit of the Law on Anti-Corruption.
The report does not generate administrative procedures, does not replace business licenses, and is not a condition for requesting permission for teachers to participate in extra classes outside the school.
The draft supplements regulations on establishing and publicizing hotlines to receive feedback at all levels of management, from educational institutions, commune-level people's committees to Departments of Education and Training. This is a solution to strengthen supervision of the whole society, promptly receive and handle feedback and recommendations, contributing to preventing violations, ensuring the implementation of regulations on tutoring and extra classes is serious and in accordance with the law.
Along with that, the draft innovates the approach in inspection and examination in the direction of publicity, objectivity, and due authority; prioritize reminding, rectifying, and guiding remediation for first-time violations that have not caused serious consequences; strictly handle cases of intentional violations, re-violations, coercion or profiteering from tutoring and extra classes.
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