Recruitment difficulties
Meo Vac is one of the most difficult districts of Ha Giang province. The rugged mountainous terrain and poverty all year round make the path to school here more difficult for teachers and students.
With the desire to attract teacher resources, this locality has raised the salary for contract teachers to 7-8 million/month. This is not a small amount of money for the pedagogy industry, but in reality, recruiting teachers is still very difficult. Even when recruited, teachers are not very interested in "rooting" in this land.
Mr. Bui Van Thu - Head of the Department of Education and Training of Meo Vac district informed that according to the assigned payroll target, the locality is lacking about 180 teachers and this August there will be a recruitment round.
According to Mr. Thu, as one of the most difficult districts in Ha Giang, the shortage of teachers in Meo Vac appears in all subjects. Especially English subject.
"Faced with the difficulties of lacking teachers, the locality has called for support from a number of other localities to teach online such as English. As for other subjects, within the district we support online teaching for each other.
In addition, we also encourage teachers to teach more hours and more classes. Seconding teachers from schools to support each other, and adding 111 contract teachers," the leader informed.
Also according to the Head of the Department of Education and Training of Meo Vac district, for the English subject, the locality is receiving support from units in Hanoi to teach online for grade 5 students. Lam Dong province supports teaching grade 3 students. , 4 and 1 volunteer organization in Ho Chi Minh City teach students dozens of classes.
In addition, to attract human resources, the contract salary for English teachers in Meo Vac fluctuates around 8 million VND/month, and for other subjects about 7 million VND/month.
The problem of lack of teachers
Also facing the problem of lack of human resources in educational establishments, Dong Van district is currently lacking more than 100 teachers. It focuses mainly on the English subject with 20 teachers at 2 levels: Primary and Secondary.
"Faced with difficulties, the department also advised the People's Committee of Dong Van district to have online classrooms, 1 teacher can teach 1-2 schools. Large classes can be combined to teach English online.
Annual recruitment plans are focused on temporarily addressing the teacher shortage. At the same time, register for additional quotas for English teachers," said Mr. Ha Dinh Phong - Head of the Department of Education and Training of Dong Van district.
Also according to Mr. Phong, currently local English contract teachers have a salary of 8 million VND/month. Because of the difficult mountainous characteristics, recruiting teachers faces many difficulties. For example, in the 2023 - 2024 school year, there are only 2 recruitment applications, while the target is 20 teachers.
On August 12, talking to a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Bui Quang Tri - Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ha Giang province said that the whole province is currently lacking more than 2,800 teachers (including assigned and unassigned staff) before the deadline. new school year 2024-2025.
"Of which, more than 900 have been assigned staffing quotas, the remaining are short of the Ministry of Education and Training's staffing quota of more than 1,900 teachers. In the immediate future, the sector has directed units to develop recruitment plans for the 2024 school year. -2025. At the recent meeting, it was agreed that the proposed recruitment target is 493 targets out of the total shortage.
In addition, continue to implement teacher contracts within the staff quota that cannot be recruited. At the same time, the teacher contract is in accordance with Decree 111 of the Government," Mr. Tri said.
According to the Director of the Department of Education and Training, recruiting contract teachers faces many difficulties. Currently, the industry is reviewing school units and teachers in the direction of merging small-scale schools. Bring students to study at main schools to make the most and effective use of teacher resources.
In addition, to solve the shortage of teachers in specific subjects, some localities are organizing online learning.
It is known that difficulties in recruiting teachers have had a significant impact on the academic results of Ha Giang students.
Since 2020, for 5 consecutive years Ha Giang has ranked in the "bottom" position in the average score ranking of the National High School Graduation Exam. In particular, Ha Giang's test scores for the two most basic subjects, Literature and Math, are also very low.
