The Ministry of Education and Training has issued a document responding to the petition of voters in Hung Yen province sent after the 9th Session of the National Assembly.
Accordingly, Hung Yen voters reflected that the current local shortage of teachers still exists, especially teachers teaching English, IT, music, and fine arts subjects.
This, according to voters, if the delay is resolved, it will make it difficult to implement the teaching program and plan.
Therefore, voters in Hung Yen province recommended that the Ministry of Education and Training have fundamental solutions to overcome this situation.
Responding to this content, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that in the past time, the Ministry has actively coordinated with the Ministry of Home Affairs to advise the Government to report to the Central Executive Committee to add 65,980 teacher positions for the period 2022-2026.
Although the country has recruited more than 40,000 teachers in the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years, the number of students in the past 2 school years has continuously increased, leading to an increase in the number of classes and the number of teachers needed to increase (in the 2023-2024 school year, the number of teachers needed to increase by 13,676 teachers; in the 2024-2025 school year, the number of teachers needed to increase by 22,000 teachers), leading to a shortage of teachers in many localities.
In addition to the reason for the increase in the number of students, the current shortage of teachers is also due to a number of reasons.
For example, the attraction to the education sector is still limited due to low income, and the source of recruitment for some subjects such as IT, foreign languages, and arts is not much because students majoring in these majors have many other career options with higher income to become teachers.
Pedagogical admission for these subjects is also difficult when the demand of students for choice is low, especially in the arts, which requires talent.
Teacher recruitment is still slow due to the time-consuming process of allocating staff and the teacher recruitment process in localities.
Some localities do not fully recruit assigned staff but reserve quotas to streamline staff.
Faced with the shortage of teachers, the Ministry of Education and Training is continuing to implement a number of solutions.
Direct teacher training institutions to open industry codes and organize teacher training according to local needs, ensuring teacher recruitment sources for localities, especially new subjects and specific subjects.
Direct, inspect, and urge localities to recruit teachers to ensure sufficient staffing assigned by competent authorities according to Directive 32/2023 of the Prime Minister on continuing to promote fundamental and comprehensive innovation in general education.
At the same time, advise the Prime Minister to issue a telegram for localities to continue recruiting teachers when reorganizing the apparatus to implement two-level local governance.
Direct localities to continue reviewing and arranging the network of schools and classrooms; piloting autonomy mechanisms for public preschool and general education institutions, promoting the socialization of education.
Strengthen the leadership and direction role of local Party committees and authorities in addressing the shortage of teachers.
Along with the Central's solutions, the Minister suggested that Hung Yen province not implement staff streamlining by mechanistically cutting the number of assigned teachers.
Implement teacher recruitment to ensure the correct subject structure and sufficient number of positions assigned by competent authorities according to Directive 32.
According to the report, by the end of the 2024-2025 school year, Hung Yen province (including the old Thai Binh) still has 3,938 unused teacher positions.
Along with that, implementing solutions to regulate teachers from places with surplus to places with shortage; attracting teachers to work in localities and allocating funding to implement teacher contracts according to Decree 111/2022 to ensure the sufficient number of teachers according to the prescribed norms.
