According to statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training, by the end of the 2022-2023 school year, the country has 1,234,124 preschool and general education teachers (an increase of 71,927 people compared to the 2021-2022 school year).
However, according to the set target, the whole country still lacks 118,253 teachers, an increase of 11,308 people compared to the 2021-2022 school year. Of which, preschool level increased by 7,887 teachers, primary level increased by 169 people, secondary level increased by 1,207 people, high school level increased by 2,045 people.
Two reasons for the growing teacher shortage: the wave of teachers leaving the profession continues and the difficulty of recruiting new ones.
More than 9,000 teachers quit their jobs
Last school year, the wave of teachers quitting their jobs in public schools continued. Of the 19,300 teachers who quit, 9,295 were laid off, while the remaining 10,094 teachers retired under the system.
In the 2021-2022 school year, 16,265 teachers quit their jobs. Of which, 10,407 teachers in public schools alone quit.
The wave of teachers quitting their jobs continues, with 9,000 more leaving the profession. (Illustration photo)
Similar to the previous school year, the number of teachers leaving the profession is mainly concentrated in areas with developed socio-economic conditions such as: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Dong Nai, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Binh Duong... In these areas, teachers have many options to change careers with higher income.
Most of the reasons teachers quit their jobs are to work in private schools or to work in other fields with higher incomes. In a few localities with difficult socio-economic conditions such as Gia Lai, Son La, etc., the number of teachers quit their jobs due to low salaries and allowances, while the workload is high due to sparse population and long commutes to teach.
On the other hand, a small number of non-public schools and preschools have had to close, leading to a continued increase in the rate of teacher resignations.
Severe teacher shortage
In a recent report, the Ministry of Education and Training frankly admitted that the shortage of teachers at all levels of public preschool and primary education nationwide continues to increase.
In September 2015, the total number of students at the start of the new school year was over 19 million, by September 2022, this number was over 23 million students.
Meanwhile, in 2015, the country had 1,156,000 teachers, and by September 2022, it will be 1,227,000 teachers. Thus, after 5 years, the number of teachers increased by more than 100,000 people and the number of students increased by 3 million.
Hanoi and Thanh Hoa are the two localities with the highest teacher shortage in the country.
Not only is there a shortage of teachers, the Ministry of Education and Training also said that the structure of the teaching staff is 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, Information Technology, Music, Fine Arts). The quota for allocating teachers to localities is mostly lower than the actual demand.
In addition to the large number of teachers leaving their jobs, the number of children going to school in the 2022-2023 school year increased by 132,245 children (equivalent to the need to increase about 5,500 teachers), which is a great pressure that the industry is facing.
At the primary level, the rate of classes with 2 sessions/day in the 2022-2023 school year increased by 4.6% compared to the previous school year (equivalent to an increase of 10,811 classes with 2 sessions/day, requiring an increase of about 3,000 teachers). At the high school level, there were 669 classes increased compared to the previous school year (equivalent to an increase of about 1,500 teachers).
As one of the localities with the highest teacher shortage in the country, Mr. Tran Van Thuc, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Thanh Hoa, said that the whole province has more than 40,430 teachers on the payroll, compared to the quota assigned by the Ministry of Education and Training, there is still a shortage of more than 10,250 teachers. Of which, the shortage of teachers of elective subjects at secondary and high school levels is the highest: Information Technology lacks 690 teachers, English 350, Fine Arts 280.
The Director of the Department of Education and Training of Thanh Hoa also admitted that there were many difficulties in recruiting new teachers last school year, one of the reasons for this was that young teachers were not interested in working locally. Low salaries, heavy workload, and difficult teaching areas were the main reasons for the low recruitment rate.
In addition, the coordination between the Department of Education and Training, the Department of Home Affairs, and the Department of Finance still has many bottlenecks in terms of procedures and paperwork. Therefore, many schools lack teachers but have difficulty recruiting staff, most of them "put out the fire" by signing short-term 12-month contracts for teachers.
A representative of the Dak Nong Department of Education and Training said that last school year, the Department was assigned to recruit hundreds of students but was unable to recruit them. Meanwhile, the number of school-age students skyrocketed due to illegal immigration.
Dak Nong province is facing a very difficult problem: it cannot recruit new teachers and has to cut 10% of its annual quota according to Government regulations.
Dak Lak province is also in a similar situation. Mr. Pham Dang Khoa, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Dak Lak province, said that in the 2023-2024 school year, according to the staff streamlining project, more than 620 teachers will have to quit. Meanwhile, the additional quota in 2022 is 272 staff, compared to the number of streamlining, only 40% can be compensated. Compared to the requirements and norms set by the Ministry of Education and Training, the province still lacks nearly 1,200 teachers to meet the implementation of the new general education program.
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