Nghe An province assigned the Department of Education and Training to recruit, receive and transfer teachers.

Early completion of teacher rotation and recruitment

On August 26, the Provincial People's Committee issued Document No. 8357/UBND - TH on the implementation of recruitment, reception, mobilization, secondment, and transfer of teachers and civil servants in the Education sector in the province.

Accordingly, in order to promptly ensure a shared team of teachers and civil servants for the 2025-2026 school year, while waiting for the issuance of legal documents on assignment and decentralization, the Provincial People's Committee has assigned responsibility to each relevant unit in implementing personnel management of educational institutions from preschool to secondary school.

Specifically, the province assigned the Department of Education and Training to use secondment to arrange inter-school teaching, transfer teachers, civil servants and workers in public educational institutions in the province according to regulations; arrange human resources in the education sector to best prepare for the new school year 2025 - 2026.

In addition, preside over and coordinate with units and localities to review and propose competent authorities to decide or decide under their authority (if any) on adjusting the staffing for the 2025-2026 school year of educational institutions to carry out the recruitment and reception of teachers, civil servants and workers, to be completed before September 20, 2025.

At the same time, carry out recruitment and admission within the assigned number of positions in the province in 2025 to arrange for facilities lacking teachers, to be completed before November 30, 2025.

The Department will also study and issue written authorization and assignment to educational institutions and the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level in issuing decisions on ending probation, increasing salaries and allowances beyond the framework, deciding on retirement, termination of employment, deciding on transferring and appointing managers of educational institutions, deciding on assigning civil servants to work inter-school in educational institutions (after implementing the Department's secondment plan) in the area under its management.

According to the province's instructions, in case civil servants have not been recruited, based on current regulations, the Department of Finance and the People's Committee at the commune level will review and arrange funding for educational institutions to sign labor contracts to ensure staff for the new school year.

Solving the problem of teacher shortage in schools

On the eve of the new school year, Nghe An is short of more than 4,000 teachers. Specifically, preschools are short of 1,579 teachers; primary schools are short of 1,198 teachers; middle schools are short of 942 teachers and high schools are short of 463 teachers.

Besides, the situationteacher shortage, local teacher shortages occur in many localities. The transfer and rotation of teachers between communes is still difficult due to uneven teacher ratios between communes and small communes making it difficult to rotate.

Faced with this reality, in early July, the Department of Education and Training sent a document requesting the Provincial People's Committee to base on Decree No. 142/2025/ND-CP dated June 12, 2025 of the Government regulating the division of authority of two-level local authorities in the field of state management of the Ministry of Education and Training, related regulations and the actual situation of the locality to consider assigning authority to perform personnel work in the Education and Training sector, promptly preparing for the new school year from August 15, 2025.

At the same time, it is necessary to unify the work of appointing, mobilizing, rotating, using, recruiting, and seconding teachers among educational institutions not in the same commune.