Draft Law on Teachers: Decentralization for the Education sector to take the initiative in recruiting teachers

As reported by PNVN Newspaper, on March 25 at the National Assembly House, the National Assembly Standing Committee held the 7th Conference of full-time National Assembly deputies of the 15th tenure to discuss and contribute opinions on draft laws submitted to the National Assembly at the 9th Session.

Regarding some major issues in receiving, explaining, and revising the draft Law on Teachers, regarding the authority to recruit teachers (Article 14), many opinions agreed with the regulation on assigning the authority to recruit teachers to the Education sector; there were opinions suggesting clarifying the agencies that are decentralized and authorized to recruit. The Standing Committee of the Culture and Social Affairs Committee said: Assigning the authority to the Education sector to preside over advising and organizing the recruitment of teachers is one of the new policies that attracts the attention of society.

Based on practical requirements and implementing the policy of decentralization and delegation of power, and absorbing the opinions of delegates, the draft Law was revised in the direction of decentralizing power to the education sector to proactively recruit teachers; at the same time, thoroughly decentralizing in the direction of authorizing heads of public educational institutions at all levels of general education, vocational education, and higher education to proactively recruit teachers.

For public general education institutions that do not have the conditions and capacity to conduct recruitment, the education management agency shall conduct recruitment.

For preschool education institutions, due to the scale, conditions and capacity that are difficult to ensure, the authority to recruit preschool teachers is assigned to the local authorities. In cases where the conditions are met, the head of the preschool education institution shall recruit under authorization.

Full-time National Assembly delegates discuss at working session on draft Law on Teachers

For public educational institutions belonging to the armed forces, the recruitment of teachers is assigned to the Minister of Public Security and the Minister of National Defense to regulate in accordance with the specific nature of the field. The recruitment of teachers in schools of state agencies, political organizations, and socio-political organizations performing the task of teaching training and fostering programs will be decided and guided by the competent authority managing the educational institution.

For non-public educational institutions, the recruitment of teachers is conducted by the head of the educational institution in accordance with the regulations on organization and operation of the educational institution.

The draft Law also assigns the Government to specify in detail the authority and contents related to the recruitment of teachers in public educational institutions; and specifies the recruitment of foreign teachers.

View of the discussion session

In addition, there are opinions suggesting to clarify the priority subjects and subjects with special privileges in teacher recruitment. In response to the opinions of National Assembly deputies, the National Assembly Standing Committee has directed to revise the draft Law in the direction of clearly stipulating the priority subjects in teacher recruitment in Clause 3, Article 14; stipulating the subjects that enjoy policies to attract and promote teachers, including preferential policies in recruitment in Clauses 1 and 2, Article 27.

At the same time, the draft Law amends the regulations on receiving teachers in public educational institutions in the direction of considering the reception of teachers as a special case in recruitment (not going through the normal recruitment process) to be consistent with the legal regulations on special recruitment for civil servants; assigning the Government to specify in detail the conditions, subjects, procedures, and documents for receiving teachers.

Source: https://phunuvietnam.vn/du-thao-luat-nha-giao-phan-quyen-cho-nganh-giao-duc-chu-dong-trong-tuyen-dung-nha-giao-20250325161644216.htm