At the Conference to summarize the 2022-2023 school year and deploy tasks for the 2023-2024 school year held on the afternoon of August 18, the Ministry of Education and Training reported on the shortage of teachers.
According to the report, there is still a shortage of teachers at all levels of public preschool and primary education in many localities across the country.
According to preliminary statistics based on industry data, the country is currently short of 118,253 teachers, an increase of 11,308 compared to the 2021-2022 school year (preschool level increased by 7,887 people, primary level increased by 169 people, secondary level increased by 1,207 people, high school level increased by 2,045 people).
Conference to summarize the 2022-2023 school year and deploy tasks for the 2023-2024 school year (photo source: Ministryof Education and Training).
The structure of the teaching staff is still unbalanced between subjects in the same grade level, between regions with different socio -economic conditions; the surplus and shortage of teachers is still common in many localities, especially teachers teaching new subjects (English, IT, Music, Fine Arts) but is slowly being overcome; the quota for allocating teachers to localities is mostly lower than the actual demand.
According to the report of the Ministry of Education and Training, the main reason for the higher shortage of preschool teachers compared to the previous school year is that the number of children attending school in the 2022-2023 school year increased by 132,245 children compared to the previous school year (equivalent to the need to increase about 5,500 teachers).
At the primary level, the rate of 2-session/day classes in the 2022-2023 school year increased by 4.6% compared to the previous school year (equivalent to an increase of 10,811 2-session/day classes, requiring an additional 3,000 teachers).
High school level increased by 669 classes compared to the previous school year (equivalent to needing to increase about 1,500 teachers). In addition, in the 2022-2023 school year, nationwide, more than 19,300 public teachers retired and quit (including 10,094 retired teachers and 9,295 quit teachers).
In addition, due to the planning and forecasting of teacher demand not being close enough to reality; population fluctuations, labor migration between regions in large numbers and without any rules;
The 2018 General Education Program stipulates that Primary schools organize 2 sessions/day; add some new, compulsory subjects76, add local education lessons, experiential activities, and career guidance.
Recruitment of general education teachers in localities is still inadequate and untimely due to lack of recruitment sources (according to training qualification standards in the 2019 Education Law);
Lack of mechanism to attract and retain teachers in the profession, low salaries for newly recruited teachers; the implementation of the policy of streamlining 10% of the payroll in administrative and public service agencies in many localities is still carried out mechanically.
Some localities do not recruit new teachers to implement the policy of reducing 10% of staff.
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