The Politburo requested to innovate salary and benefits policies for teachers.

Innovation in teacher remuneration policy

On behalf of the Politburo, Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat, Head of the Central Organization Commission Truong Thi Mai signed and issued Directive No. 29-CT/TW on universal education, compulsory education, eradicating illiteracy for adults and promoting student streaming in general education.

The Directive clearly states that, in order to improve the quality of universal education, eliminate illiteracy for adults and promote student streaming in general education, the Politburo requires Party committees at all levels, Party organizations, authorities, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations to well perform a number of key tasks and solutions.

In particular, perfecting the system of policies and laws, creating synchronization and connectivity, improving the quality of universal education, compulsory education, eliminating illiteracy for adults and streamlining post-secondary students to meet the requirements.

Fundamentally and comprehensively innovate the content, programs, and methods of training and fostering preschool, general education, and vocational education teachers in the direction of standardization, modernization, democratization, and gradually approaching the standards of advanced countries.

Focus on training and improving the qualities, ideology, ethics, and pedagogical capacity of the teaching staff. Improve the quality of training facilities, foster teachers and educational managers associated with human resource planning in the education sector.

Focus on investing in developing a number of key pedagogical universities, forming a number of satellite pedagogical schools as the core in training high-quality teachers and educational managers.

Implement well the linkage between teacher training schools and localities in developing plans for recruitment, training and fostering teachers at all levels, ensuring sufficient quantity, balanced structure, suitable to practical needs, and promptly overcoming the situation of surplus and shortage of teachers.

Continue to innovate salary, recruitment, employment, treatment, attraction policies, and ensure necessary conditions for teachers to perform their tasks well; have incentive and preferential policies for teachers working in areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions and specialized educational institutions.

Promote socialization

The Politburo's Directive also requires enhancing the leading role and responsibility of state management, ensuring effective implementation of the Party's guidelines and the State's policies and laws; increasing resources and ensuring the budget to complete the goals of universal education, compulsory education, illiteracy eradication, student streaming in general education, and prioritizing universal preschool education for preschool children from 3 to 5 years old.

Perfecting the organization of the state management apparatus on education and training from the central to grassroots levels; promoting decentralization and delegation of power; strengthening inspection and examination, and strictly handling violations.

Continue to improve the network of schools, classes, facilities, teaching equipment, ensure conditions for preschool education, general education, continuing education, vocational education in the direction of standardization, modernization, socialization associated with the planning of the national education system, national, sectoral and territorial planning. Pay special attention to developing the network of schools, school locations, classes; ethnic boarding schools, boarding classes for people, semi-boarding classes in mountainous areas, remote and isolated areas.

Promote socialization, create conditions for individuals, businesses, and organizations at home and abroad to invest in building schools and classrooms, especially non-public kindergartens and nurseries in industrial parks, export processing zones, densely populated urban areas, remote areas, and areas with difficult or especially difficult socio-economic conditions./.