Department of Home Affairs requests Vinh City to stop mobilizing and rotating teachers

Specifically, from the end of the 2017-2018 school year, Nghe An Department of Home Affairs received comments from teachers and staff working at secondary schools, primary schools, and kindergartens in Vinh City reflecting that the city had Official Dispatch No. 1702/UBND - GDĐT dated April 5, 2018 to continue implementing Decision No. 06/2016/QD - UBND dated July 25, 2016 of Vinh City People's Committee on the transfer and rotation of teachers and staff in the education and training sector.

Experiential foreign language lesson of teachers and students of Le Mao Secondary School (Vinh City). Photo: SH

In response to this incident, to ensure the rights of teachers, on June 6, 2018, the Department of Home Affairs issued Document No. 977/SNV - TCCB on the transfer and rotation of teachers and staff to the People's Committee of Vinh City. In which, based on current documents and Official Dispatch No. 102/UBND -TH, the Department of Home Affairs requested Vinh City to stop the transfer and rotation of teachers in accordance with current legal documents.

In addition, Vinh City is required to amend, supplement or invalidate Decision No. 06/2016/QD-UBND dated July 25, 2016 of the City People's Committee on the transfer and rotation of teachers, staff, and education and training sectors in accordance with the province's direction. In addition, it is necessary to implement the prescribed policies for teachers and staff transferred before the date of issuance of Official Dispatch No. 102/UBND-TH.

Previously, according to Decision No. 06/2016/QD - UBND dated July 25, 2016 on Regulations on the transfer and rotation of teachers and staff in the education sector, the city stipulated that all teachers and staff in the education sector are obliged to work in disadvantaged areas for at least 3 years. After completion, they will be transferred to regions 2. In the 2017-2018 school year, the city transferred and rotated more than 200 teachers at the preschool, primary and secondary levels.

Regarding teacher rotation, at the meeting with the Provincial People's Committee on July 24, Mr. Dau Van Thanh - Director of the Department of Home Affairs said: Recently, many localities have rotated teachers but did not follow the standards and did not follow the province's directives. According to the province's viewpoint, it is possible to rotate teachers when required but not massively and not transfer teachers simultaneously...

Class time of teachers and students at Nghi Hoa Primary School - Nghi Loc. Photo: SH

Due to the improper rotation of teachers, in January 2018, the Provincial People's Committee also issued Document No. 102/UBND - TH on the mobilization, secondment and rotation of civil servants in the education and training sector and commune-level civil servants.

In particular, it is required to only conduct mobilization, rotation, and job position transfer of titles according to the provisions of legal documents. Do not conduct mobilization or rotation of cadres and civil servants in educational and training units according to Inter-sectoral Instruction No. 59/HDLN - SNV - SGD&DT dated January 20, 2009.

In case of rotation, only transfer of commune-level officials and civil servants shall be carried out according to personal wishes that are reasonable with the requirements of the organization or when necessary to improve the quality and structure of the team of civil servants and public employees or to implement the project to resolve the surplus teachers of the unit.