On April 11, the Ministry of Education and Training issued Document No. 1627 to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities on the recruitment, management and use of staffing quotas for preschool and general education teachers.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training, by the end of the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year, the whole country still has about 60,000 teacher staffing targets assigned but not recruited, while there is a shortage of more than 120,000 teachers at all levels of public education.
To overcome this situation, the ministry recommends that localities urgently recruit enough assigned staff; at the same time, have policies to attract, train, transfer teachers and rearrange the school system in accordance with local realities.
The Ministry also requires provinces and cities to report the results of teacher recruitment in the 2024-2025 school year and count the need for additional staffing until the 2030-2031 school year, and send them to the Ministry before June 15, 2025 for synthesis and reporting to the Prime Minister.
Speaking to reporters on April 17, Mr. Thai Van Thanh - Director of the Department of Education and Training of Nghe An province - said that the locality currently has about 1,500 unrecruited teacher targets.
"Because the school year is almost over, Nghe An will wait until the administrative unit is reorganized and the education management level is completed to recruit for the next school year," said Mr. Thanh.
Previously, on April 9, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee issued Official Letter No. 1760 stipulating: Temporarily suspend the recruitment of district-level education and training officials pending the completion of the arrangement of administrative units to build a 2-level local government model. In particular, for localities that have been granted a policy by competent authorities before March 7, 2025, recruitment will continue.
Localities are allowed to complete the positions of Principals of Secondary, Primary and Preschools according to regulations.
