In the 2025-2026 school year, many schools in Nghe An are worried about a lack of teachers.
Preparing for the new school year 2025 - 2026, Nghe An is facing a shortage of more than 4,000 teachers. Therefore, it is necessary to have specific management levels soon so that the mobilization, rotation or recruitment can be carried out smoothly, ensuring at least enough teachers are arranged to teach in the classroom.
"Gap" in schools
"Our school is lacking 7 teachers, including 2 Literature teachers, 2 Physics teachers, 1 Biology teacher, 1 Physical Education teacher, Youth Union - Team teacher"... that is the sharing of teacher Pham Thi Phuong Lan - Principal of Quan Hanh Secondary School (Nghi Loc commune). In addition, the school is also "empty" 1 accountant because the school's accountant last school year concurrently held 2 units. This year, after the commune merger, because the 2 schools are located in 2 different communes, the transfer is not yet calculated.
The shortage of teachers at Quan Hanh Secondary School also occurred in the 2024-2025 school year. However, in the 2025-2026 school year, due to the retirement of a teacher, the school added one more class, so the shortage was even greater.
Previously, to solve this problem, in the 2024-2025 school year, thanks to support from Nghi Loc district (old), teachers were encouraged to increase their teaching hours from 19 to 22 or 23 and were paid extra for overtime. But this year, due to the merger, the commune has no support plan, so the implementation of the forecast will be difficult.
Since the summer break, we have attended many meetings and made many proposals but have not found a solution. The school's biggest wish now is to have enough teachers for the new school year 2025 - 2026. Quan Hanh Secondary School is currently implementing an advanced school model and has been a high-quality school for many years in the area. If there is a shortage of teachers, it will certainly affect the quality of teaching and learning.
Teacher Pham Thi Phuong Lan - Principal of Quan Hanh Secondary School (Nghi Loc commune)
In mid-July, teacher Le Tuyen Huan - Principal of Huu Khuong Primary Boarding School (formerly Tuong Duong district), submitted a document to the Department of Education and Training proposing to add teachers for the 2025-2026 school year.
According to the school's report, the school will have 15 classes with 317 students next school year. However, currently, the total number of staff, teachers and employees of the school is only 16 people, including 10 cultural teachers and 3 other teachers of IT, Foreign Languages and Music. With the above reality, in the 2025-2026 school year, the school needs to add 15 new people to ensure enough teachers and staff according to regulations, including 10 cultural teachers, 1 Fine Arts teacher, 1 Physical Education teacher, 3 librarians, clerks and school health workers.
Huu Khuong is a special commune, located in the Ban Ve hydroelectric reservoir area, with a fragmented terrain, making it very difficult to transfer teachers to work in the commune.
"Old" worries in the new school year
Currently, in Nghe An province, many units cannot organize the opening ceremony if they cannot arrange teachers in time. The main reason is that the number of teachers is less than the number of classes available or there is a complete lack of subject teachers, while there is no more staff to recruit.
This is the content of the synthesis of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee sent to the Ministry of Education and Training about the actual difficulties of the teaching staff in the 2025-2026 school year.
In fact, despite annual staffing increases, the situation is stillteacher shortagehas been going on for many years in Nghe An province. The monitoring report of the Provincial People's Council at the end of June 2025 showed that the whole province is currently lacking more than 4,000 teachers at preschool and general education levels to meet the required teacher/class ratio.
Another difficulty is that currently, most localities in the province have a local surplus of teachers in educational institutions (number, subject structure). In particular, schools in central communes or with high preferential treatment have a surplus of teachers, while schools in remote areas lack teachers.
Previously, to balance teachers among schools, the (old) district People's Committee seconded teachers from places with surplus to places with shortage, arranging for inter-school teaching.
However, now, after implementing the two-level local government, the schools with this problem are not in the same administrative boundaries.
Regarding this issue, recently, the Ministry of Education and Training has issued a document asking for opinions from localities for the Draft Circular guiding the functions, tasks, and powers of the Department of Education and Training, the field of education and training of specialized departments under the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones...
Commenting on this draft, the People's Committee of Nghe An province suggested that the draft should clearly assign tasks to management levels for educational institutions so that the People's Committee of the province has a basis to issue regulations on assignment and decentralization of education management and regulations on functions and tasks of the Department of Education and Training, clarifying the scope of "under management" of the People's Committees at the commune level and the Department of Education and Training./.