Proposal to remove the ceiling, no more teachers waiting for promotion

The draft Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Teachers developed by the Ministry of Education and Training has brought up a number of important changes.

Unifying the title of teacher

According to the draft Decree, the titles of teachers from preschool to continuing education include: Teacher, main teacher, senior teacher. For vocational secondary schools, the title of teacher includes vocational secondary school teachers, main vocational secondary school teachers, and senior vocational secondary school teachers.

Primary school teachers will also be divided into primary school teachers, primary school teachers, and high school teachers. There are also titles divided by level of education and training, including: Intermediate-level teacher, intermediate-level teacher, main intermediate-level teacher, senior secondary-level teacher; practical college lecturer, college lecturer, main college lecturer, senior college lecturer;

Lecturers of pedagogical colleges, lecturers of major pedagogical colleges, lecturers of senior pedagogical colleges; university lecturers, lecturers of major universities, lecturers of high universities (including professors, associate professors); lecturers of political schools, lecturers of public policy schools, lecturers of high-level political schools; lecturers of training and fostering; lecturers of training and fostering; lecturers of high-level training and fostering.

Proposed to remove promotion rate control

According to the draft Decree, teacher professional promotion is the appointment of teachers to a job position associated with a higher title in the same level of education or training level, demonstrating the professional development of teachers.

The consideration of teacher promotion must be based on the job position and teacher professional standards. For public educational institutions, the consideration of professional promotion for teachers must comply with the structure according to the professional title approved by competent authorities, except for the case of special promotion as prescribed in Article 14 of this Decree.

Teachers are eligible to register for professional promotion if the educational institution has a need and the teacher meets the professional standards of teachers according to the provisions of law. The teacher's professional promotion exam is organized according to the principle of equality, publicity, transparency, objectivity and compliance with the law.

The draft also stipulates that teachers are allowed to register for consideration for professional promotion when meeting all the following standards and conditions: Be classified as having completed their tasks well or better in the year of work immediately before the year of consideration for professional promotion; Have good political qualities and professional ethics; Not within the disciplinary period; not within the time limit for implementing regulations related to discipline according to the regulations of the Party and the law; Meet the requirements for professional standards for the title of teacher to be considered for consideration for professional promotion, except in cases of consideration for special promotion.

According to the draft, the system of teacher titles will be redesigned in a simpler and more unified direction, closely linked to professional qualifications and professional capacity. Instead of dividing them into the current grades I, II, III, the titles of preschool and general education teachers are expected to be determined according to the levels of teachers, main teachers and senior teachers.

The change that has received much attention is the no longer application of the mechanism of controlling the career advancement rate.

Currently, the teacher promotion rate is based on the structure of the number of professional titles of public service units, with a maximum ceiling of 10% of class I and 50% of class II, leading to a situation where many teachers meet the requirements but cannot be promoted due to excess quotas.

According to the draft Decree, the consideration of promotion of professional titles will no longer be based on the general application of the strict ratio but will be based on the job position, actual needs and approved professional title structure. Thus, the opportunity for promotion is directly linked to the requirements for human resources of each educational institution, instead of depending on "performance or not", khacving the problem of teachers who, despite their qualifications, are still waiting for promotion due to the ceiling.

The competent authority or unit considering promotion must develop a project clearly stating the current title structure, the number of positions to be promoted, the list of qualified teachers, forms and indicators for promotion. The authority to organize the promotion review is decentralized in accordance with the management model; the head of the management agency is directly responsible for organizing and deciding.

These adjustments are expected to contribute to removing many years of "bottlenecks" in educational human resource management, creating motivation for teachers to strive, while improving the quality of the team when the Law on Teachers takes effect from January 1, 2026.

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