The Ministry of Education and Training has just announced a draft joint circular guiding the implementation of Clause 1 and Clause 2, Article 1 of Decree No. 19/2013/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 61/2006/ND-CP on policies for teachers and educational managers working in specialized schools and in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions.

According to this draft, teachers and education managers whose working term in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions has expired for 3 years for women and 5 years for men, but the competent education management agency has not arranged or transferred them back to their place of residence or last place of work before being transferred to work in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, will continue to receive an attraction allowance equal to 70% of their current salary and leadership position allowance, seniority allowance exceeding the framework (if any), but will no longer receive the allowance for long-term work in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions as prescribed in Article 5 of Decree No. 116/2010/ND-CP.
The regimes prescribed in this Joint Circular shall be effective from April 15, 2013.
(According to GD&TĐ) -LH