The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued Document No. 4798/BGDDT-NGCBQLGD to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities on resolving a number of difficulties and problems of localities in the field of education and training when implementing local government at two levels.
The most notable point of this document is that the Ministry of Education and Training recommends that localities consider and reasonably allocate civil servant positions at the provincial and commune levels, ensuring sufficient quantity and quality.
The Ministry also directed the People's Committees at the commune level to review the team of commune-level civil servants currently working at the Department of Culture and Society, ensuring the right arrangement of people, meeting the standards according to the instructions in Official Dispatch No. 11/CV-BCD dated June 4, 2025 of the Steering Committee for the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and building a model of organizing local government at two levels of the Government, guiding the standards for the title of new commune-level civil servants.
The reason why the Ministry of Education and Training has to propose to localities to "arrange the right people to meet the standards" as well as "reasonably allocate" is because there is currently a very difficult situation.
According to a quick survey by the Ministry of Education and Training, published at the seminar "Organizing education management at the commune level after the rearrangement" in early August, of the about 1,000 civil servants assigned to the commune level to be in charge of education, only 20-30% have expertise or experience in the industry.
The rest come from completely unrelated fields such as: bachelor of land management, animal husbandry engineer, construction engineer, bachelor of food industry, bachelor of accounting, bachelor of business administration, bachelor of communications, bachelor of law, military college, pharmaceutical...
This arrangement of personnel will cause many consequences, from overlapping tasks, omission of management steps, and even hindering the innovation process. Education is a field that requires specific understanding, inheritance and practical experience.
This shows that localities are confused or do not follow the instructions, leading to personnel arrangements that are far from the principle of "right person, right job".
This is also what Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh pointed out in Official Dispatch No. 127/CD-TTg sent to localities recently. According to the Prime Minister, the arrangement of cadres and civil servants in some localities, especially at the commune level, lacks science, does not meet professional requirements, and is slow to receive training and guidance.
It must also be admitted that our revolution of merging and streamlining the apparatus takes place in the context of "running and lining up at the same time", so the emergence of inadequacies and unscientific problems in personnel arrangement, especially in the education sector, is understandable.
However, the positive point is that the Government, the Ministry of Education and Training and localities have quickly identified the problem to find solutions and propose solutions.
The problem now is that solutions need to be implemented quickly, drastically, synchronously and substantially, in order to quickly put the commune-level education management apparatus into order, soon "lately reaching the line" not only in the short term but also sustainably in the long term.
