Will train teachers according to 'orders' from localities

The above policy was agreed upon by the Ministry of Education and Training at the conference of principals of pedagogical schools held on December 27 in Hanoi with the participation of 30 pedagogical universities and universities with pedagogical training.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha speaks at the conference. Photo: Xuan Trung

Representatives of many teacher training schools admitted that in recent times, the determination of enrollment targets has not ensured a balance in structure, qualifications and occupations to meet actual human resource needs. Policies to attract capable people to study teacher training have not been attractive, so there are many majors that need people but cannot enroll students...

Therefore, the drastic solution is to link teacher training with the needs of the job. The Ministry of Education and Training will assign teacher training targets according to the ordering mechanism based on local needs and the capacity of training institutions.

Accordingly, the People's Committees of provinces and cities determine the demand for pedagogical human resources in the medium and long term, develop plans for ordering, recruiting and assigning work after training. Training institutions develop enrollment plans for each teacher training major based on local proposals and the capacity of the institution, ensuring quality assurance conditions according to current regulations.

Minister Phung Xuan Nha said that it is time for the education sector to stop training people who are not used. To do that, there is no other way but to train people who are in line with the needs of the job and quality requirements.

That need must come from reviewing the staff of each locality, providing accurate figures on the need for teachers and a commitment to use them after training. The Ministry will be responsible for working with localities to find specific solutions.

Faced with the need to innovate the general education program, the Minister requested that teacher training colleges quickly develop a list of key teacher trainers in all subjects.

Regarding the restructuring of teacher training colleges, the Minister affirmed that this is an inevitable trend but requires a roadmap, including a framework to carefully assess the current situation of teacher training colleges to find out the remaining problems and refer to the experiences of some countries.

"This is the best time and opportunity for restructuring because the whole society is expecting schools to improve the quality of teacher training, so each teacher training school should base on its needs to have appropriate processes and methods. I suggest that teacher training schools participating in the ETEP project (Development Program for Teacher Training Schools to Improve the Capacity of Teachers and Managers of General Education Institutions) do it first, and other schools will do it later. On that basis, the Ministry will submit to the Government a project to restructure teacher training schools" - Mr. Nha concluded./.

According to TTO