Lacking thousands of teachers, Gia Lai asks not to streamline education staff

Teaching and learning activities at an educational institution in Mang Yang district, Gia Lai province - Photo: TAN LUC

According to a report by the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee, in the 2024-2025 school year, the province will lack more than 4,200 teachers and education staff.

Recently, localities have organized teacher recruitment exams, but the number of applicants is not enough to meet the demand.

Moreover, fluctuations in retirement, resignation, and job transfers make the problem even more difficult.

It is known that this province is currently recruiting 1,778 teachers and will have results in the third quarter of 2024.

Faced with the above situation, the central government has assigned Gia Lai an additional 1,905 educational staffing quotas. Currently, the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee has issued a decision to supplement the staffing quotas for these quotas.

According to the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee, the reason why localities cannot recruit enough candidates is because there are very few candidates. The levels and subjects that have difficulty finding sources of teachers are preschool, primary school culture, English, information technology, art, technology, etc.

In addition to candidates not meeting the admission standards, there is a situation where students graduate looking for other job opportunities with higher incomes, not taking the teacher recruitment exam. For integrated subjects, there is no recruitment source, causing difficulties for the education sector.

According to the education sector's demand plan for the 2024-2025 school year, Gia Lai province still lacks 4,259 teachers and education staff. Therefore, the province proposed that the central government assign additional quotas to the province to perform well in teaching.

At the same time, it is proposed not to reduce 10% of the number of civil servants that have been added in the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years. The reason is that the locality still lacks many teachers.

Speaking to Tuoi Tre Online on August 12, Mr. Nguyen Van Long - Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training of Gia Lai province - said that among the labor shortage, there are more than 3,000 teachers, the rest are employees.

Up to now, the province has recruited 1,244 teachers, plus the number of positions allowed to recruit 1,905 more teachers to cover all classes, solving the teacher shortage.

Currently, localities are developing recruitment plans, trying to find enough teachers for the new school year.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/thieu-hang-ngan-giao-vien-gia-lai-xin-khong-tinh-gian-bien-che-giao-duc-20240812155008118.htm