Nghe An plans to order training for more than 1,000 pedagogical students by 2030

Nghe An Provincial People's Committee has just approved the project on Developing a team of managers, preschool teachers and general education teachers in the education and training sector of Nghe An province for the period 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030. Thereby, in order to meet the requirements of educational innovation, implementingGeneral Education Program 2018, contributing to improving human resources, promoting socio-economic development, political stability, ensuring security and national defense in the province as a whole.

Previously, to develop this project, the education sector also conducted statistics and forecasted the increase in student population, number of classes and teacher demand at all levels.

Accordingly, it is expected that in the next five years, Nghe An will increase by about 92,000 students and by 2030 increase by over 122,000 students. The number of classes will increase by 2,228 (2025) and 3,980 classes (2030). Due to the rapid increase in the number of students, Nghe An will need 9,812 more teachers (2025) and 13,307 teachers (2030).

Teachers of Nghi Hai Kindergarten - Cua Lo town discuss professional matters. Photo: MH

Through current assessment, Nghe An's teaching staff, although having a fairly high level of training above the standard, has its own difficulties. That is, it is still lacking compared to the demand (school year 2020 - 2021: preschool level lacks 4605 teachers, primary level 2523 teachers). There are no teachers with specialized training to ensure teaching all knowledge streams of new subjects and educational activities according to the 2018 General Education Program (Informatics and Technology in primary school; History and Geography and Natural Science in secondary school, Experiential activities). In addition,Unreasonable teacher structure, local surplus and shortage in some subjects at secondary school level.There is a shortage of teachers in many subjects according to the 2018 General Education Program and textbooks such as Music, Fine Arts, English, Information Technology, Civic Education, especially difficulties in arranging teachers to teach new subjects and educational activities according to the 2018 General Education Program.

Based on this reality, to prepare for the next stage, Nghe An province aims to improve teacher standards, implement the 2018 General Education Program and the Preschool Education Program after 2020. In addition, continue to train university degree 2 for teachers to teach subjects lacking specialized knowledge, suitable for teachers' capacity: (mainly Literature and Math teachers at secondary school level, new National Defense Education teachers with 6-month certificates at high school level)teacher trainingaccording to international standards

In particular, with the aim of ensuring the quantity and structure of the teaching staff and educational management staff in the period of 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030, Nghe An also expects to have a need to recruit teachers and compensate for retired teachers by 2030: 13,307 people, of which 9,523 will be supplemented with teachers in need and 3,674 will be compensated for retired teachers.

Teacher training according to international standards will be emphasized in the coming school years. Photo: MH

Nghe An also plans to train 1,000 students (ordering training for teachers in difficult-to-recruit subjects (Foreign Languages, Information Technology, Music, Fine Arts) for mountainous areas with difficult recruitment). Of which, from 2021 to 2025: 500 students and from 2025 to 2030: 500 students.

Regarding this content, speaking with Nghe An Newspaper, Mr.Thai Van Thanh- The Director of the Department of Education and Training said: The approval of the Provincial People's Committee for the project on Developing the team of managers, preschool teachers and general education teachers in the education and training sector of Nghe An province for the period 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030, is extremely important and is the basis for the sector to propose solutions and implement contents in the coming period.

In particular, training according to orders for students in the field of pedagogy is necessary and will contribute to improving the quality of the teaching staff in the future. However, in order for the project to be effectively implemented, in addition to the mechanism, the province needs to supplement enough staff for the education sector, only then can the placement of student orders be implemented.