Ministry of Education and Training reminds teachers not to concurrently perform more than 2 tasks

Ms. Nguyen Thi Van asked, high school teachers who concurrently work as homeroom teachers, deputy heads of professional groups, and secretaries of Party cells, how many teaching hours are reduced in a week, and based on which legal documents?

Regarding this issue, the Ministry of Education and Training answers as follows:

According to the provisions of Clause 3, Article 3 of Circular No. 05/2025/TT-BGDĐT, each teacher does not concurrently hold more than 2 tasks. According to the content mentioned by Ms. Nguyen Thi Van, she is concurrently holding 3 tasks. Therefore, it is requested that she directly give her opinion to the school principal to re-assign concurrent tasks to ensure the principles stipulated in Clause 3, Article 3 of Circular No. 05/2025/TT-BGDĐT and in case teachers are assigned to teach beyond the average teaching time limit in 1 week (including converted teaching hours for concurrent tasks), the total number of teaching hours exceeding the average teaching time limit in 1 week is not more than 50%.

According to the provisions of Circular No. 05/2025/TT-BGDĐT, teachers who are homeroom teachers are reduced by 4 teaching hours/week; teachers who are deputy heads of professional groups are reduced by 1 hour/week, teachers who are also secretaries of Party cells (where a Party Committee is not established) in schools with 28 or more classes for region 2 and region 3, 19 or more classes for region 1 are reduced by 4 hours/week; in other schools are reduced by 3 hours/week.

However, as Ms. Van's question stated, it is not clear whether the school where she works established a party committee or not. In case of not establishing a party committee, the regime of reducing teaching norms of the Party cell secretary is applied according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 10 of Circular No. 05/2025/TT-BGDĐT.

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