SIMPLIFICATION IS THE MOTIVATION BUT IT MUST BE DONE HUMANITARIANLY
Regarding the policy of streamlining the payroll, teacher Phan The Hoai, who teaches literature in Binh Tan District (HCMC), said: "Streamlining the payroll is a correct, good and practical policy in the context of the education sector implementing the 2018 General Education Program. Because now teachers are not only good at their expertise and pedagogical skills, but also have to demonstrate other abilities and skills to meet the new situation."
According to this teacher, every profession has its own "elimination" rule, streamlining is of course in a positive direction, superiority is the driving force for change. In non-public schools, recruiting and terminating contracts when teachers are not suitable, do not meet professional and technical requirements, and are not trusted is normal. Meanwhile, in public schools, people think that state payroll is a lifetime payroll, so some teachers think that they are old and do not want to innovate...
Streamlining the payroll is also a driving force for teacher training schools to innovate training, helping teachers to be able to teach many subjects in an interdisciplinary, multi-skill and professional manner.
Therefore, according to Mr. Hoai, there needs to be specific criteria to quantify teachers' capacity and be transparent so that teachers are "convinced". If this cannot be done, the meaning of a good policy will be lost.
Similarly, a chemistry teacher in District 11 (HCMC) believes that from a positive perspective, streamlining the payroll is also a driving force for teacher training schools to innovate the training process, helping teachers to be able to teach many subjects in an interdisciplinary, multi-skill and professional manner, in a state of readiness to innovate, constantly improve their expertise to meet and exceed standards.
"Teachers must also be aware of the current situation regarding job needs as well as the needs of the educational career to adapt to interdisciplinary teaching and especially must always be conscious of striving to improve their professional capacity, pedagogical skills and teacher ethics. Only then can they maintain stable jobs," this teacher commented.
According to this teacher, education is a special industry, so streamlining the payroll is not a simple matter and cannot be calculated mechanically. Streamlining must be based on principles that demonstrate humanity and meaning, avoiding the situation of "squeezing the lemon and throwing away the peel".
STREAMLINE PLAN: MERGER, TRANSFER
In order to implement the policy of streamlining the payroll to help improve the quality of the teaching staff, in accordance with the autonomy mechanism, according to the assessment of educational institution managers, each school and each locality develops a plan suitable to reality.
In the education sector, the restructuring of the school system in a streamlined direction is also a method that localities are implementing. The leader of the Department of Education and Training of District 7 (HCMC) informed that with the model of merging small schools to streamline the system, up to now the district has merged from 4 kindergartens into 2 schools, from 6 primary schools into 3 schools.
Based on the number of classes in each school and the balance of each ward having one primary school, the district will select suitable schools to merge, combining small schools into one large school. Surplus staff will be rotated to suitable positions or transferred to schools that are still lacking.
The leader of the Department of Education and Training of District 7 said that before implementing the merger, the district leaders shared clearly and frankly so that the staff, teachers and employees understood, and at the same time listened to the thoughts and aspirations of each person. At the same time, it was necessary to ensure the rights of teachers in the streamlining process, and to arrange and rotate the staff to take on the positions after the streamlining in an appropriate manner.
Implementing the plan to streamline the payroll for the 2023 - 2026 period, this school year the district will not recruit the second batch of education officials but will calculate to arrange and rotate the team from places with surplus to places with shortage according to the job position project.
For example, the district is currently building Le Van Tam Primary School according to the model of an advanced school, integrating with the region and the world, so there may be a surplus of teachers due to the control of the number of students and classes. Thus, the district will rotate the staff from this school to the school that is lacking.
In an interdisciplinary integrated lesson
In District 6 (HCMC), Mr. Luu Hong Uyen, Head of the Department of Education and Training, said that the main focus is on streamlining the payroll. Currently, only jobs that are lacking but are in the job position regulations will be recruited. For redundant job positions, workers will be arranged to register for training to transfer to a job position in the list. Or develop a plan to send unqualified teachers to study to improve their qualifications to meet the standard qualifications in the 2019 Education Law. Only unqualified teachers who are old and cannot go to school will be included in the streamlining.
In addition, the Department of Education and Training of District 6 organizes a review of the teaching staff of schools to grasp the specific surplus situation. For example, school A has 2 surplus literature teachers but school B has a recruitment plan, the Department will work with the 2 schools on the teacher transfer plan. Then, it will consult with the district to issue a decision.
Also sharing about the policy of streamlining staff at public high schools, Mr. Huynh Thanh Phu, Principal of Bui Thi Xuan High School (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City), said that in most high schools today, recruitment is not under the authority of the principal but is carried out by higher management agencies, except for a few special schools that are given autonomy to recruit teachers such as specialized schools, advanced schools... Therefore, to implement the policy of streamlining staff, the Department of Education and Training needs to review personnel at all school units, and transfer teachers from one school to another if there is a local surplus/shortage of teachers.
Follow the principle "where there are students, there must be a teacher in the classroom"
On February 12, the Ministry of Education and Training responded to voters' opinions sent before the 6th session of the 15th National Assembly regarding not cutting the number of teachers according to the general ratio because education has its own characteristics.
Accordingly, voters in some localities requested the Ministry of Education and Training to coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs to report to the Government to supplement the annual teacher staffing quota to meet practical requirements; at the same time, ensure the teacher staffing quota in the classroom, and not reduce the staffing quota according to the general ratio because education has its own characteristics.
Responding to this content, the Ministry of Education and Training stated that in order to carry out the task of reviewing and proposing to the Central Government to assign additional teacher staff for the 2023-2024 school year according to Decision 72 of the Central Government on staffing of Party agencies, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, political organizations at the Central level, provincial Party Committees, city Party Committees, and Party Committees of blocs directly under the Central Government for the period 2022-2026, the Ministry has coordinated with the Ministry of Home Affairs to issue documents requesting localities to review and propose additional teacher staff for the 2023-2024 school year.
Currently, the Ministry, in coordination with the Ministry of Home Affairs, has completed a review report and proposed plan to supplement the teacher payroll for localities in the 2023-2024 school year, and sent it to competent central agencies for consideration and approval.
The Ministry of Education and Training also emphasized that streamlining the payroll is a major policy of the Party and the State. To implement this policy, localities need to have a flexible roadmap and implementation solutions, suitable to the actual conditions of the locality, ensuring a reduction in the number of people receiving salaries from the state budget and implementing the principle of "where there are students, there must be teachers in the classroom" appropriately.
Also in the response to voters, the Ministry of Education and Training said that it has been and is continuing to coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs to research and advise the Government and competent central agencies to guide the implementation of streamlining the education sector's payroll in accordance with the actual conditions of regions and localities.
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