About 81% of pedagogical students have jobs after graduation.
Many experts share: Pedagogy still has its own attraction. In fact, many schools are still "thirsty" for pedagogical human resources and in the future, the rate of students having jobs after graduation will be higher.
Associate Professor Dr. Pham Manh Ha - Deputy Head of the Faculty of Educational Sciences (University of Education - VNU Hanoi) said: Many people say that teachers are unemployed after graduation, but many international schools in Hanoi are still in need of human resources. The Associate Professor said that he recently visited a number of international high schools in Hanoi and found that these schools are in great need of teachers who can use foreign languages.
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Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training and Chairman of the Education Trade Union presented a certificate of merit to teacher Tran Thi Minh Nguyet - Chairwoman of the trade union, teacher at Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted, who has many achievements in training excellent students in Russian. Photo courtesy of My Ha |
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Nghe An Center for Education and Vocational Training for the Disabled has 9 general education classes and 13 vocational training classes with occupations such as sewing, carpentry, office computer, and embroidery. Students aged 13 and older, in addition to general education, will be taught by the center in occupations that the school is capable of training. Photo: Duc Anh's Document |
Regarding the employment of pedagogical students, Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Phung - Director of the Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Education and Training) informed that statistics from the past 2 years from universities show that the rate of students having jobs after graduation fluctuates around 86 - 87%, especially for pedagogical majors around 81%. Based on the quarterly labor market bulletin of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs in coordination with the General Statistics Office, the number of unemployed university graduates is around 138,000 to 230,000 people. Compared to more than 5 million university graduates, the rate of university graduates having jobs fluctuates around 95 - 97%.
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Education is one of the fields that has made the most significant changes, with 44/66 schools meeting national standards. Photo courtesy of Nguyen Hai |
Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Phung said that, for the education sector alone, from 2018 to the following years, the Ministry of Education and Training has compiled statistics on the need for teachers in localities at all levels and in all subjects; on that basis, assigning pedagogical targets to schools. Thus, in the future, the rate of pedagogical students having jobs after graduation will be higher than the current statistics.