In the 2024 - 2025 school year, according to the standards of the entire education and training sector, Dien Bien province is lacking 2,076 teachers. Mainly in subjects such as: English, Information Technology, Fine Arts, Music. Preschool level lacks 915 teachers, primary school 522, middle school 406 and high school 233 teachers.
In Tua Chua highland district, in the 2024-2025 school year, the sector still lacks 465 teachers. Meanwhile, recruitment is facing many difficulties, especially recruitment sources for English, IT and Fine Arts teacher positions.
On August 27, talking to a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Vu Duc Bieu - Head of the Education and Training Department of Tua Chua district - said that the lack of teachers leads to many difficulties in performing tasks, greatly affecting the quality. education.
“The lack of teachers before the new school year has affected the organization and improvement of the quality of English teaching. Teachers have to teach many classes and teach at many schools, some teachers have to teach at two different levels" - Mr. Bieu said.
According to Mr. Bieu, to solve this situation, in the 2024-2025 school year, the Department of Education and Training advised the District People's Committee to recruit 99 new teachers, contract 95 professional targets at all levels.
In Dien Bien Dong district, compared to the industry-wide norm, there is currently a shortage of 188 teachers. The Department of Education and Training has also advised the district People's Committee to plan to recruit about 65 new teachers this school year.
Mr. Nguyen Tien Thang - Head of the Department of Education and Training of Dien Bien Dong district - said: "Currently, there is a shortage of teachers at all levels, but paradoxically, we still have to reduce staff by 10%, which makes registration even more difficult." recruitment".
According to Mr. Thang, Dien Bien Dong is a poor district with many difficult socio-economic conditions and cannot attract teachers to register for recruitment. Teacher salaries are still low, not commensurate with the nature of the job level in extremely difficult areas, combined with great pressure from job requirements, causing many people to quit their jobs.
“At the elementary level, the rate reaches 28 students/class, which is quite high. If according to the norms of Circular 20/2023/TT-BGDDT, it is forecast that there will be a larger shortage of primary school teachers because the number of classes will increase while the number of teachers will not increase" - Mr. Thang added.
Talking to a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper about this issue, Mr. Nguyen Van Doat - Director of the Department of Education and Training of Dien Bien province said that to prepare human resources for the 2024-2025 school year, the entire sector will recruit 533 new teachers, Contracts for 434 teachers at all levels.
According to Mr. Doat, to overcome the shortage of teachers, the Dien Bien education and training sector has proactively developed a plan to mobilize and second teachers to effectively use the existing teaching staff. At the same time, implement a plan to arrange teachers to teach across schools and levels for subjects such as English, Information Technology, Fine Arts, and Music.
In addition, the education and training sector has also mobilized a team of English teachers with good professional qualifications in Muong Cha, Dien Bien and Dien Bien Phu districts to support online teaching for Nam Po, Muong Nhe and Dien Bien districts. Dien Bien Dong to ensure students have the required number of classes.
"To implement this solution, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City will support the opening of training classes for teachers in Dien Bien, and at the same time support software to improve the quality of online teaching and learning when deployed" - Director of the Department of Education and Training of Dien Bien province added.
