On the morning of December 14, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Education and Training held a conference to review 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW (Resolution 29, dated November 4, 2013) of the 11th Party Central Committee on fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training, meeting the requirements of industrialization and modernization in the context of a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration.
Teachers' salaries are still low compared to the general level of other professions (in the first 5 years, the average is only 5 million VND/month)
SALARY IS STILL LOW, MANY YOUNG TEACHERS QUIT WORK
According to the draft report summarizing 10 years of implementing Resolution 29, on the issue of staff development, the Ministry of Education and Training said that in addition to policies on training, fostering, and policies to attract excellent students into the teaching profession, the Party and the State pay attention to the teaching staff, with many support policies in addition to salaries to help teachers increase their income such as: seniority allowance for teachers; preferential allowances for teachers directly teaching all levels, subjects, and teaching subjects at levels from 25 - 70%; regional allowances.
In addition, the implementation of policies to honor and reward teachers has been carried out promptly, publicly, and democratically by localities and educational and training institutions...
However, according to the Ministry of Education and Training, in reality there are still many shortcomings in working conditions and the regime and policies for teachers are not commensurate; teachers' salaries are still low compared to the general level of other professions (in the first 5 years, the average teacher's salary was only 5 million VND/month), not meeting the target set in Resolution 29; salaries and regimes have not created motivation in the context of increasing work pressure for teachers.
Report of the Ministry of Education and Training
Notably, the number of students nationwide has increased rapidly due to natural population growth, along with the implementation of the policy of streamlining the payroll, leading to a shortage of teachers in many localities. The recruitment and management of teacher payrolls according to administrative boundaries makes it difficult to arrange and transfer teachers from places with surplus to places with shortage. The attraction to the industry is still limited due to high work pressure and low income, especially for young teachers. The number of teachers quitting their jobs in recent years has tended to increase, with teachers under the age of 35 accounting for 60% of the total number of teachers quitting their jobs. "The number of teachers quitting their jobs tends to increase mainly due to professional pressure and inadequate salary policies, causing teachers to choose other jobs with higher incomes. The teaching staff is being affected by many different normative documents, so adjusting policies for teachers is facing many difficulties," the report of the Ministry of Education and Training stated.
PROPOSAL NOT TO CUT MECHANICAL STAFF
Speaking at the conference, Mr. Tran The Cuong, Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, said that in implementing Resolution 29 on fundamental education and training reform, Hanoi has implemented many solutions, focusing on developing the teaching staff. However, Mr. Cuong also pointed out the reality that Hanoi is currently short of more than 10,000 teachers compared to the requirements. Every year, the number of students in Hanoi increases significantly. On average, each year the city has to build 35-40 more schools to have enough space for students. For example, this year the number of students increased significantly, with about 7,000 students in grade 1 and 58,000 students in grade 6, so Hanoi must be very determined to have enough space for students.
Teachers have a decisive role in educational innovation.
Mr. Cuong proposed a number of recommendations, including the need to add to the draft the issue of not being able to implement the salary policy for teachers according to Resolution 29. Specifically, "teachers' salaries are ranked highest in the administrative salary scale and table", so he proposed that the Ministry of Home Affairs advise the Government to pay attention to and create conditions for implementing the salary policy for teachers as stipulated in Resolution 29. He proposed that the Ministry of Home Affairs advise the Government to supplement the teacher recruitment quota to solve the current teacher shortage problem in Hanoi and other localities; not to mechanically apply the requirement to reduce the minimum payroll by 10% for educational institutions. "It is proposed that the Ministry of Home Affairs study and consider increasing the number of deputy heads at large-scale schools such as inter-level schools, schools with many levels of education, and key schools. If the current regulation only has 2 deputy heads, it will be very difficult for large-scale educational institutions," said Mr. Cuong.
The Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training also wishes to add to the resolution on regulations on autonomy in public general education because the new draft currently mentions autonomy mechanisms for higher education institutions. The Hanoi Department of Education and Training is strongly advising on the issue of autonomy for public schools in the city. It will calculate the price of services for education and training to contribute to solving the "bottleneck" in the lack of staff, promoting the role of autonomy in schools.
TEACHERS PLAY A DECISIVE ROLE IN THE RENEWAL PROCESS
Speaking at the end of the conference, Mr. Nguyen Kim Son, Minister of Education and Training, said that in the Politburo's conclusion in the coming time, there will certainly be several points that need to be mentioned, revolving around three main issues: awareness, institutions and resources.
The issue of awareness, Resolution 29 itself is a change in perspective towards education; but awareness at all levels and sectors in education is still a big problem; there will still have to be continued awareness of investment in education, autonomy in education, socialization in education and awareness of professional issues of the sector. Besides a full and thorough awareness, more importantly, there needs to be appropriate action and action that goes all the way.
"If we only increase awareness, we will still tell each other every day that "education is the top national policy", but it will stop there. The story of taking action commensurate with awareness is still a big story that needs to be continued so that the issues of Resolution 29 can be fully and thoroughly implemented in the near future," Minister Son emphasized.
Regarding the institutional issue, the Minister of Education and Training said that it will be necessary to continue reviewing documents and laws, building a new law, the Law on Teachers, and reviewing legal documents to pave the way for socialization in education, autonomy in education, and pave the way for other innovations.
The issue of resources, including education finance, investment in education and human resources. The two very important keywords are money and people. We are increasingly aware of the decisive role of the teaching force in this innovation process and we will certainly have to do more to develop the teaching force to complete the goals of educational innovation in the near future.
Mr. Son also said that after this conference, the Ministry of Education and Training will continue to receive opinions and continue to complete the draft project to summarize 10 years of implementing Resolution 29.
The budget for education and training has not yet ensured the minimum rate.
According to the report of the Ministry of Education and Training, investment in education has not met the requirements for innovation and development of education and training; the budget expenditure ratio for the education and training sector has not ensured the minimum rate of 20% as required by Resolution 29 and the 2019 Education Law. Budget allocation is still inadequate, local budgets allocated for education activities are mainly spent on salaries, and some localities do not even ensure the expenditure structure for education.
Budget investment for higher education is still very low, many public higher education institutions do not have enough financial resources to cover training costs (salaries, direct costs, management costs, fixed asset depreciation costs) and reinvest to improve training quality; tuition fees of public higher education institutions are still slow to be adjusted to ensure adequate compensation for costs according to the prescribed roadmap, thus affecting the financial autonomy of higher education institutions. Not many non-state resources have been attracted to invest in education.
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