Muong Nhe mountainous district is the most difficult area in terms of educational human resources in our province. According to the norm, the district's education and training sector is still short of more than 300 teachers. In preparation for the 2023-2024 school year, the district has been allocated to recruit 121 educational staff, including 41 preschool teachers, 37 primary school teachers, 31 secondary school teachers, 4 accountants, and 8 medical staff. This recruitment period is highly expected by the district's education and training sector. Because although the 2022-2023 school year was completed with good results, in the situation of teacher shortage, the whole sector has encountered countless obstacles, and cadres and teachers have more pressure.
However, up to this point, Muong Nhe district has collected all the application forms, the number of accepted applications is only 106/121 targets. Some teacher positions have no applicants such as: Literature, English, Music, Fine Arts teachers. Some positions have very few applicants such as: Primary culture teachers (6 votes), Information Technology (1 vote). Mr. Pham Thiet Chuy, Head of the Department of Education and Training of Muong Nhe district shared: “The reason is that the local recruitment source is very limited. All districts in the province are assigned to supplement the staffing quota, all districts are recruiting. Meanwhile, Muong Nhe district is a remote and difficult area, so the number of applicants is not much. The arrangement of teachers for the next school year is still facing many difficulties”.
Tua Chua District is in the same situation. In early July 2023, the District People's Committee announced the recruitment of education career civil servants with 47 positions. Of which, 30 positions are for preschool teachers in schools in extremely disadvantaged communes, 12 positions for primary school teachers, and 5 positions for secondary school teachers (7 English teachers and 5 IT teachers). The recruitment announcement has been made public on mass media and on the district's website. The time to receive application forms is from July 10 to August 8. "Up to now, the deadline is approaching, but the district has only received more than 20 applications, of which none were submitted for the specialized subjects of English and IT" - Ms. Dang Thi Thanh Huyen, Head of the Department of Internal Affairs of Tua Chua District, said.
Previously (school year 2022 - 2023), Tua Chua district organized 2 recruitment rounds for civil servants in the education sector. In the first round, the target was 30, and 27 were recruited. In the second round, the target was 92, with 62 applications, and 45 candidates were admitted. In both rounds, no one registered to apply for English and IT teachers. If Tua Chua continues to have "blank" applications for specialized subjects in this round, the teacher shortage will become even more serious. Because in the next school year, according to the new General Education Program, English will be a compulsory subject for grade 4.
The concern of not being able to recruit enough staff for the new school year is shared by the entire provincial Department of Education and Training. In mid-July, the Department of Education and Training sent a document asking for support in introducing recruitment quotas and sources for teachers to 29 universities nationwide, which offer training in the following majors: English Pedagogy, Information Technology, Fine Arts, and Music. Universities support posting recruitment information on bulletin boards and electronic information portals of the units; creating conditions for direct introduction and exchange between the Department of Organization and Personnel (Dien Bien Department of Education and Training) and graduates of the above majors. Accordingly, units under the Department of Education and Training were approved to recruit a total of 36 civil servant quotas, including 7 English teachers, 2 Information Technology, 2 Music, and 2 Fine Arts. The deadline has not yet expired, but the situation of receiving applications is also "gloomy".
Since the end of the previous school year, the provincial Department of Education and Training has forecasted that in the 2023-2024 school year, according to the norm of the number of employees in the whole sector, there will be a shortage of 2,206 teachers. Mr. Cu Huy Hoan, Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training, said: "To ensure the conditions for the teaching staff in the 2023-2024 school year, the Department of Education and Training has directed the Departments of Education and Training to promptly advise and implement the teacher recruitment process based on the number of employees assigned to supplement the school year, especially the team of teachers teaching the 2018 General Education Program. Currently, the Department of Education and Training, the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities are actively implementing the teacher recruitment process. The plan is to recruit 489 teachers, including: 191 preschool teachers, 172 primary school teachers, 96 secondary school teachers, and 30 high school teachers."
Despite the recruitment target, the whole sector is still lacking in teacher recruitment, especially teachers in some specialized subjects. In order to overcome this difficulty, the Department has advised the Provincial People's Committee to issue an official dispatch directing departments, branches, sectors, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities to comprehensively implement many solutions to ensure the source of teachers. In particular, the Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Education and Training to take the lead in advising on the development of a Teacher Training Plan for the 2018 General Education Program. Specifically, training for university level in the part-time training system; training for full-time university level, part-time training, second degree or joint training from college to university in the following majors: Primary, English, Information Technology, Music, Fine Arts.
That is a long-term solution. In the immediate future, with the above recruitment situation, it is likely that in another school year, the province's cadres and teachers will continue to have to teach extra hours, teach in inter-school and inter-commune classes, and shoulder many responsibilities to ensure educational work with the motto "no school or class will be allowed to interrupt learning".
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