More than 400 contract teachers in Nghe An are waiting for special treatment.

According to the Department of Education and Training, up to now, the whole province still has more than 700 cadres, employees, and teachers in the education sector under contract in 21 districts, cities, and towns. Of which, the teachers alone have 434 people with 80 teachers at preschool level, 187 teachers at primary level and 167 teachers at secondary level and mainly concentrated in districts, in units such as Cua Lo, Hung Nguyen, Nghi Loc, Do Luong, Yen Thanh...

Regarding the recruitment of contract teachers, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued Official Dispatch No. 5378/BNV-CCVC dated November 5, 2019 signed by Deputy Minister Nguyen Trong Thua, agreeing in principle to allow localities to consider special cases for teachers who have had labor contracts and paid compulsory social insurance according to the provisions of the Law on Social Insurance from 2015 or earlier in the payroll quota, with capacity and qualifications suitable to the requirements of the position to be recruited.

A teacher who has been teaching under contract for more than 10 years in Dien Chau district has no chance of being specially recruited because he is only a contract teacher at the school. Photo: My Ha

Nghe An is currently drafting a document to issue guidelines, but through discussions with representatives of the Department of Home Affairs, the consideration of special privileges is still facing many difficulties. Specifically, according to the guidelines, the special privileged subjects must be those who signed a labor contract with the district from 2015 or earlier, have paid insurance, and at the time of signing the contract, the locality must have a staffing target but has not yet recruited. In reality, there are not many of these subjects at present, and due to a surplus of teachers, many localities have not had staffing targets for more than 10 years.

Through the implementation process, it is also predicted that there will be many difficulties because previously, after the province had a policy of not signing contracts, some localities terminated contracts with district contract teachers. Therefore, there are currently many teachers who have worked for 5 years or more but are now short-term contract teachers, guest teachers at schools who are not covered by insurance.

Currently, many localities have recently transferred many primary and secondary school teachers on contract to teach preschools due to a surplus of teachers. So, if these people currently wish to return to their proper level of education, will they be considered?

Currently, the mountainous district of Ky Son is facing a shortage of teachers. Photo: My Ha

Regarding special recruitment of teachers, the representative of the Department of Education and Training said: To facilitate teachers, special treatment should be given to teachers who signed before 2015, have long-term contracts and currently the district has quotas (the quotas should not be calculated at the time the teachers signed the contract). If so, there will be more opportunities for teachers instead of the current situation where, although there is a mechanism, the opportunities are being "bounded" because they are not suitable for actual conditions.