On the morning of November 20, at the National Assembly House, continuing the 8th Session, the National Assembly discussed in the hall the draft Law on Teachers. Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Thanh chaired the meeting.
Chairing the meeting, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Thanh said that today, November 20, is Vietnamese Teachers' Day, and the National Assembly devoted the entire morning session to discussing the draft Law on Teachers. This is the respect of the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee to generations of Teachers and the Education Sector - those who have made and will make great contributions to the glorious and noble cause of educating people.
Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Thanh said that the draft Law on Teachers was first drafted as a draft law regulating subjects related to many specialized laws. The scope of the draft law is quite broad, relating to the majority of civil servants who are teachers at public educational institutions, accounting for 2/3 of the total number of career staff nationwide, and the increasingly large number of teachers at non-public educational institutions, attracting the attention of many voters.
During the discussion this morning, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Thanh asked the National Assembly deputies to pay attention to 8 issues raised in the Inspection Report of the Committee on Culture and Education. During the discussion, the Presidium will invite the Minister of Education and Training to speak to clarify the issues that the National Assembly deputies are interested in.
Thoroughly consider the problem of extra teaching and learning
Agreeing with the need to build the Law on Teachers, delegate Chamaléa Thi Thuy - National Assembly Delegation of Ninh Thuan province said that this is to institutionalize the Party's viewpoints and policies on teachers, promptly supplement new and specific policies to build and develop the teaching staff.
Commenting on the professional activities of teachers in Clause 1, Article 7, the delegate said that the provisions in the draft Law do not cover all the activities of teachers. The professional activities of teachers need to be considered in the overall process of a teacher's activities, including the process of teaching, guiding, imparting knowledge, skills and ethical values to learners. In addition, it also includes the process of working with colleagues, participating in management activities of a teacher... Therefore, the Drafting Committee is requested to review and adjust the content in Clause 1, Article 7.
Regarding the things that teachers are not allowed to do, at Point c, Clause 2, Article 11, there is a regulation that students are not allowed to be forced to take extra classes in any form. According to the delegate, this regulation is necessary, however, this content has also been regulated in Clause 5, Article 22 of the Law on Education, which is forcing students to take extra classes for money.
Delegate Chamaléa Thi Thuy said that it is necessary to have a thorough understanding of the issue of extra teaching and learning in order to regulate it in a specific and appropriate manner. Because in reality, extra teaching is a real need of teachers and students, especially in urban areas and areas with developed economic conditions, children are increasingly invested in their studies by their families and aim to improve beyond their basic knowledge in the classroom. And the need to find good teachers to learn extra is always real. Therefore, the delegate found that if we think that increasing salaries and policies for teachers to solve the problem of extra learning is still subjective and not really suitable for real life.
Regarding the regime and policies for teachers, delegates agreed with the principle that "education must be considered a national policy" in every stage of the country's development. Therefore, attention must be paid to the regime and policies and to honoring the team working in education.
However, to implement the regime and policies set out in the draft Law and the draft Decree stipulating 9 contents of salary and allowance policies to support and attract teachers, delegates said that it is necessary to base on the Budget Law to ensure implementation or not, and to have a thorough assessment of the policy impact. At the same time, if the policy has a higher priority, it should also be placed in a harmonious correlation with other intellectuals and labor forces of society, who also receive salaries from the state budget.
Contributing opinions to the draft Law on Teachers, delegate Do Huy Khanh - National Assembly Delegation of Dong Nai province agreed with the contents proposed in the draft Law to improve the quality of education. Regarding extra study and extra teaching, the delegate said that the Ministry of Education and Training needs to coordinate with agencies to issue specific regulations as well as management mechanisms for this issue...
According to delegate Do Huy Khanh, in fact, extra classes are a necessary need of society. However, there are currently two streams of public opinion: One is prohibition, the other is management. Many workers who work overtime in the afternoon cannot pick up their children, so they want to send their children to teachers to take home to manage and only pick them up in the evening. Therefore, the draft Law needs to have a management mechanism for extra classes.
Consider regulations on reservation of regimes and policies in teacher mobilization
Speaking at the meeting, many delegates were also interested in regulations on policies and regimes for teachers, aiming to attract qualified teachers to suitable positions.
Delegate Duong Khac Mai - National Assembly Delegation of Dak Nong province highly agreed with the necessity of promulgating the Law on Teachers. Contributing to the completion of the draft law, the delegate said that Point a, Clause 5, Article 21 on the reservation of regimes and policies in the transfer of teachers stipulates that in the case of transferring teachers between public educational institutions, if the regimes and policies in the old position are higher than the regimes and policies in the new position, the regimes and policies of the old position shall be reserved for a maximum period of 36 months.
The delegate suggested considering retaining the regime and policies of the old position for a maximum of 36 months, because it needs to be similar to the policy on cadres, civil servants and public employees. In addition, teachers already have many preferential policies according to the current draft Law. The delegate suggested retaining the regime and policies for a period of 6 months or more, but not a maximum of 36 months.
In addition, some regulations on policy reservations for current cadres, civil servants and public employees are stipulated by the Government's Decree. Therefore, to be consistent, ensure consistency in regulations, and ensure that regulations under the authority of the Government, Ministries and branches are not legalized, delegates proposed that the Government specify this content in detail.
In addition, the delegates suggested studying and reviewing the provisions in the draft law. The Government should regulate any content that is under the authority of the Government, and not include content that is not under the authority of the National Assembly in the law.
Regarding the salary and allowance policy for teachers, delegates highly agreed that teachers' salaries are ranked highest in the administrative and career salary scale system. Delegates suggested that the highest salary in the salary scale must go hand in hand with the quality of teachers, because the importance and decisive role of the teacher system in improving the quality of education is decisive for the development of high-quality human resources, meeting the requirements of industrialization, modernization, and international integration.
Debate with delegate Duong Khac Mai, delegate Do Huy Khanh - National Assembly Delegation of Dong Nai province said, at point b, clause 5, Article 21 on the transfer of teachers in public educational institutions, schools transferring teachers from public educational institutions to educational management agencies, are allowed to reserve seniority allowances and preferential allowances for teachers for a maximum period of 12 months.
The initial draft was 36 months, then reduced to 12 months, however, delegates hope that these cases will retain the seniority allowance for teachers. Because we are attracting talent, when attracting talent, mobilizing these people to work at specialized agencies, they are managers, very good teachers working at schools. When at the school, there is no job position commensurate with that position, it is necessary to protect it, to attract human resources to work.
The delegate further analyzed that when a manager or a teacher works at a professional department of the Department of Education and Training or an education department, they will only receive a position allowance of 25% while they will lose their classroom allowance of 30 to 35% and they will lose their seniority allowance. The delegate suggested further consideration of this point of view.
Speaking at the meeting, delegate Chau Quynh Dao - National Assembly Delegation of Kien Giang province said that the current risk of shortage of teaching human resources has many causes (possibly due to the treatment regime, recruitment mechanism, etc.). Therefore, the delegate strongly agreed with the provisions in Article 16 of the draft Law on Teachers when it clearly stipulates that those who graduate from teacher training majors under the recruitment regime or under orders between localities and training institutions will be given priority and recruited on special occasions.
In particular, to create a truly high-quality source of teachers, delegates proposed adding a policy to attract excellent national and international students to the education sector by allowing direct admission to teacher training schools.
Regarding the issue of salaries and allowances for teachers, the delegate said that according to the results of a practical study on the lives of teachers in the Southern region, teachers' income only meets an average of 51.87% of monthly spending needs. This is the group without a second job; the group with a second job only reaches 62.55%. Therefore, the delegate agreed with the regulation on placing teachers' salaries at the highest level in the administrative career salary scale system and having additional allowances depending on the nature of the job and the region.
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