On August 25, 2020, the Ministry of Education and Training issued Circular 24/2020/TT-BGDDT on employment of unqualified teachers and educational administrators in preschools, primary schools, and lower secondary schools in Vietnam.
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Principals in Vietnam who do not meet the standardized educational qualifications will be dismissed from their positions (Internet image)
Circular 24/2020/TT-BGDDT guides the employment of unqualified educational administrators in Vietnam as follows:
- From October 10, 2018 - October 10, 2022: an educational administrator who has obtained at least qualified principal status or has their performance of duties classified as at least satisfactory (through a quality classification of officials and public employees), and still attains fitness to work will be placed a school administrator post until the end of the term of office.
Note: After the term of office ends, he/she will not be re-appointed as principal or vice principal but be placed another position in the educational institution until retirement as prescribed.
- From October 10, 2018 to October 10, 2022: an educational administrator who has not obtained qualified principal status or has their performance of duties classified as unsatisfactory (through a quality classification of officials and public employees)
- will be dismissed from the principal/vice principal post
- will be placed another position at the educational institution.
- Educational administrators who are unfit for work, wish to retire and fully meet the requirements prescribed by the Law on Social Insurance may retire according to law.
- Unqualified educational administrators prescribed above, as the case may be, may be subject to dismissal or cutting down of personnel on payroll as per the applicable law.
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According to Article 72 of the Law on Education 2019, standardized educational qualifications of teachers are regulated as follows: - Teachers of preschool education teachers must possess at least a pedagogical college diploma; - Teachers of primary education, lower secondary education and upper secondary education must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in pedagogy training. - In case a subject is yet to acquire enough teachers with bachelor’s degree in pedagogy training, teachers of this subject must possess a bachelor's degree of suitable specialization and a certificate of pedagogy training; - Lecturers of higher education must possess a master’s degree; lecturers teaching or instructing master or doctor’s theses must possess a doctoral degree. - Standardized educational qualifications of teachers working in institutions of vocational education shall follow regulations in the Law on Vocational education. |
More details can be found in Circular 24/2020/TT-BGDDT which comes into force from October 10, 2020, replacing Decision 22/2006/QD-BGDDT.
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