According to the program of the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly, on November 9, the draft Law on Teachers will be submitted to the National Assembly for first comments.
The outstanding new point of this Draft Law on Teachers is to give the education sector the initiative in recruiting and using teachers.
Delegate initiative to educational management agencies
From the reality of local education management, Mr. Vu A Bang - Vice Chairman of Dien Bien Provincial People's Committee said that state management of teachers still has some limitations and inadequacies.
State management of teachers is currently carried out by many Laws (Civil Servant Law, Public Employee Law, Education Law, Vocational Education Law, Labor Law...) leading to difficulties in the process of research, implementation and organization at the grassroots level.
The management of payroll still overlaps between the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Education. The education sector is assigned the total payroll while the recruitment authority belongs to the Department of Home Affairs.
"According to the current decentralization regulations, the Department of Education and Training directly manages the staff, teachers and students of high schools, high schools for ethnic minorities in the area, the remaining levels of education are under the functions and tasks of the district-level Department of Education and Training, which is directly managed by the district-level People's Committee. Therefore, the education sector cannot take the initiative in allocating, mobilizing, and arranging the use (recruitment, secondment...) of teacher staff, especially teachers at the secondary, primary and preschool levels to carry out annual tasks among localities in the province" - Mr. Bang analyzed.
This leads to a contradiction, although the education sector is responsible for quality, it cannot mobilize or rotate the teaching staff due to management authority and current policies.
From the shortcomings and limitations, the Vice Chairman of Dien Bien Provincial People's Committee proposed to consider decentralizing the management of teachers and educational managers to ensure consistency in recruitment, use and management of teachers from the central to local levels.
In particular, the authority is assigned to the Department of Education and Training to preside over the management of teachers at the provincial level, restructure the organization, increase the number of state management staff for the district-level Department of Education and Training; in case of necessity, regulating teachers nationwide is under the authority of the Ministry of Education and Training.
Shifting from personnel management to human resource management is a breakthrough
Dr. Hoang Ngoc Vinh - former Director of the Department of Vocational Education, Ministry of Education and Training, said that the current recruitment process and human resource management model, due to many administrative procedures, plus the separation between roles and responsibilities in recruitment, quota allocation, and evaluation of teachers and staff, have inevitably led to negative recruitment issues that have been reported by the press.
Therefore, Mr. Vinh assessed that the Draft Law on Teachers is a breakthrough, demonstrating the spirit of shifting from human resource management to strategic human resource management.
When education management agencies are assigned responsibility and initiative in recruiting and using teachers, the education sector can more clearly identify the needs, goals and necessary measures to develop the teaching staff in the direction of best meeting the requirements of the education system.
In addition, the draft also mentions the decentralization of teacher management by locality and ministry, helping to create greater flexibility and adaptability to the specific conditions of each region. This helps to effectively solve specific problems and meet the needs of human resource development in a more accurate and timely manner, eliminating negative aspects in teacher recruitment that have been a source of public concern.
However, this needs to be further studied and assessed to assess the impact on the capacity of the state management agency assigned with the responsibility. It is necessary to emphasize the role and responsibility of public educational institutions to proactively recruit teaching staff with the view that "work and people must be linked together and linked with responsibility".
“Otherwise, the previous administrative bureaucracy and negativity could very well be transferred to the local education management agency - the school's superior. Therefore, it is advisable to let the school recruit teachers and take responsibility while the management agency only participates in monitoring and planning recruitment based on the school's needs.
When the education sector has the initiative in managing and developing human resources, development policies and strategies will be adjusted appropriately to meet educational requirements and goals, contributing to improving the quality of teaching and learning," Mr. Vinh suggested.
