Will abolish the education sector's payroll

Gradually reduce the number of civil servants in public service units in the direction of gradually increasing labor contracts, aiming to eliminate the number of civil servants in public units to promote the dynamism and creativity of workers.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue (left). Photo: Chinhphu.vn

On the afternoon of May 20 in Hanoi, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue, Head of the State Steering Committee on innovation of management mechanisms, financial mechanisms, and reorganization of the system of public service units, worked with the Ministry of Education and Training to survey and develop a project to innovate management mechanisms, financial mechanisms, and reorganize the system of public service units in this sector.

At the meeting, Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha said that the Ministry's viewpoint is to organize and rearrange units and resources of the education sector, not with the main goal of reducing staff or saving money but improving the quality of education on the basis of restructuring and reorganizing unreasonable things, removing bottlenecks, and even doing many things that do not require money. Regarding universities, according to Minister Nha, the planning is not administrative, not planned according to private or public sectors but according to the sector to make it suitable for the requirements of a university or university cluster.

At the meeting, Mr. Nha also mentioned a number of issues of public concern such as autonomy in general schools, financial autonomy, teacher recruitment, etc.

Regarding the organization of public service units, the Ministry's report said that it would review and complete the network of public and non-public service units based on the development strategy of the sector and public service fields. Reorganize public service units that do not play an essential role, operate ineffectively, do not achieve their set goals, and have poor quality.

Gradually reduce the number of civil servants in public service units in the direction of gradually increasing labor contracts, aiming to eliminate the number of civil servants in public service units in order to promote the dynamism and creativity of employees to facilitate the implementation of the autonomy mechanism of service units.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue noted that autonomy should not be confused with the entire education sector having to be autonomous in financial matters. "For educational institutions in remote areas, the role of the state must still be very important in investment and development," the Deputy Prime Minister affirmed. The Deputy Prime Minister also said that the Government will have mechanisms for ordering public services (for universities conducting basic scientific research that are unlikely to be financially autonomous), or bidding to provide public services to educational institutions for educational services that bring added value.

According to TNO