The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued Circular 20/2023 on guidelines for job positions and quotas for the number of employees in public educational institutions. The new regulation takes effect from December 16, 2023.
This is one of the efforts to reorganize the personnel apparatus, thereby improving the quality of education in general schools.
Change multiple job positions
The Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City has just issued a document requesting schools in the city to review their personnel structure in a streamlined manner, striving to reduce 10% of the payroll from the state budget by 2026.
According to Mr. Tong Phuoc Loc, Head of the Department of Personnel Organization (Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training), the personnel review is carried out on the basis of Circular 20/2023 regulating job positions and quotas for the number of people working in general schools issued by the Ministry of Education and Training on October 30, 2023, replacing Circular 16/2017 on the list of job position frameworks also issued by the Ministry in July 2017.
Accordingly, the biggest change in job positions in schools is the addition of teaching and student counseling positions. While under the old regulations, schools were only allocated teaching positions if they belonged to one of two types: schools for children with disabilities or ethnic boarding schools. When applying the new regulations, all types of schools will have teaching positions. Similarly, for the position of psychological counselor for students, from the first semester of the 2023-2024 school year onwards, schools must assign teachers to work part-time or on short-term contracts with psychological counselors. However, when applying the new job list, schools will officially recruit candidates with sufficient qualifications and degrees to be in charge of counseling for students, thereby improving the quality of this activity in schools.
On the contrary, school health workers previously recruited as civil servants will switch to signing labor contracts for support and service positions in general schools when implementing the new regulations.
Ms. Tran Thuy An, Principal of Minh Duc Secondary School (District 1), said that previously, Ho Chi Minh City only applied the additional income payment regime to cadres, civil servants, and public employees of state agencies, socio-political organizations, and public service units. However, from September 29, 2023, the beneficiaries of the additional income policy have been expanded to include those working under labor contracts with agencies, organizations, and units directly signing labor contracts to perform support and service work. Therefore, basically, recruitment in the form of civil servants or signing labor contracts does not have much difference in income for workers, but recruitment under labor contracts will somewhat reduce the attractiveness of this job position, indirectly affecting the source of candidates for high schools.
Difficult to streamline teachers
Sharing about the policy of streamlining the payroll at public educational institutions, Mr. Huynh Thanh Phu, Principal of Bui Thi Xuan High School (District 1), 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 types of schools that are given autonomy to recruit teachers. Therefore, to implement the policy of streamlining the payroll, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City needs to review personnel in all school units, transfer teachers from one school to another if there is a surplus/shortage of teachers, and cannot assign the implementation to the schools. In addition, currently a large number of young workers in general schools work under fixed-term contracts.
"If streamlining the payroll, schools must calculate reasonably, balance revenue sources to pay income appropriate to the work efficiency of employees, avoiding affecting human resource development to serve the school's development requirements," said Mr. Huynh Thanh Phu.
According to the vice principal of a high school in District 3 (HCMC), the new regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training on the list of job positions do not change the quota for teachers. In particular, primary schools stipulate a maximum of 1.5 teachers/class for classes with 2 sessions/day; 1.2 teachers/class for classes with 1 session/day. Similarly, secondary schools arrange a maximum of 1.9 teachers/class and high schools a maximum of 2.25 teachers/class, except for ethnic boarding schools, semi-boarding schools, schools for students with disabilities, and specialized high schools which are arranged with a higher ratio of teachers.
Thus, the new regulation does not have any disruption in teacher allocation, so it is difficult to implement the streamlining requirement in the context of teaching and learning activities in schools having stabilized. “If there is any streamlining, it will only affect teachers who have not met the training standards prescribed by the 2019 Education Law, but this number is very small. Meanwhile, many recruitment positions for teachers in gifted subjects have had almost no recruitment sources for many years, causing us to always be in a state of teacher shortage,” said the vice principal.
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