Localities must report on the results of the education staff streamlining policy before October 25

The Ministry of Home Affairs has just issued a document guiding the implementation of policies according to Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP sent to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities.

The Ministry of Home Affairs requests to thoroughly grasp and strictly implement the Conclusion of General Secretary and President To Lam at the working session on the preparation for the 2026-2027 school year and the implementation situation of Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW dated August 22, 2025 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in education and training development (Notice No. 105-TB/VPTW dated June 24, 2026 of the Party Central Committee Office).

The arrangement of educational institutions, arrangement, and use of teachers and educational administrators must be associated with the requirement to overcome the situation of local teacher surplus and shortage, ensuring the principle "Where there are students, there are teachers"; researching the transfer and reduction of educational administrator staff, increasing direct teaching staff, ensuring conditions to serve the 2026-2027 school year.

The Ministry of Home Affairs also requested a comprehensive review of the arrangement plan for educational institutions, the current situation of the contingent of leaders, managers and teachers; synchronously implement solutions to restructure, arrange, transfer, relocate, arrange, and use the contingent of teachers and educational support personnel in accordance with the scale and actual conditions of educational institutions after arrangement in the area, in order to overcome the situation of teacher surplus and shortage according to the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training.

In the process of considering and resolving the policy of streamlining staff for subjects affected by the arrangement of educational institutions, the Ministry of Home Affairs noted some specific contents.

The remaining number of leaders, managers and educational support personnel after arrangement to enjoy the staff streamlining policy according to Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP is decided by localities based on the implementation of the provisions in point a, clause 3, Article 4 and points a, b, c, d, clause 3, Article 5 of Resolution No. 37/2026/NQ-CP; and at the same time fully and synchronously implement solutions to overcome the situation of teacher surplus and shortage according to the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training.

For leading and managerial civil servants, teacher civil servants and educational support personnel who have been considered and resolved by competent authorities to streamline staff before the promulgation of Resolution No. 37/2026/NQ-CP but have retired after the effective date of this Resolution, it is necessary to pay attention to the following cases:

In cases where competent authorities have decided to arrange new job positions suitable to the training level and working capacity at educational institutions after arrangement, the issue of streamlining staffing is not raised for these cases.

In case they are subject to the policy of streamlining staff according to the provisions of point h, clause 1, Article 2 of Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP, they continue to implement according to regulations.

To have a basis for reporting to competent authorities on the settlement of policies for leading, managing and educational support personnel who quit their jobs due to the arrangement of educational institutions according to Resolution No. 37/2026/NQ-CP, the Ministry of Home Affairs requests localities to quickly report the results of settlement for the above-mentioned subjects within their management scope.

Reports from localities must be sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Finance before October 25, 2026 for summarization and reporting to competent authorities according to regulations.

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