The Ministry of Education and Training recommends that localities maintain educational institutions. (Photo: PV/Vietnam+).

The Ministry of Education and Training said that it has issued Official Dispatch No. 1581/BGDĐT-GDPT to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities on ensuring the maintenance and improvement of the quality and efficiency of public educational institutions in administrative units when implementing the two-level local government model.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Education and Training proposed that localities maintain educational public service units and transfer to commune-level authorities the function of state management of education for secondary schools, primary schools, and preschools.

The provincial People's Committee is responsible for directing specialized agencies to issue documents guiding the content of state management of education managed by the district level to transfer to specialized agencies at the provincial and commune levels when implementing the arrangement and reorganization of local governments at two levels, ensuring that administrative activities related to education operate normally, smoothly, continuously, without interruption, and do not affect the normal activities of society, people, and businesses.

State management of education must be assigned to specialized agencies to ensure the implementation of tasks related to deciding on job positions, financial standards for education, assigning staff, and allocating budgets for education in the province. Ensure strong decentralization but not laxity; do not omit, do not interrupt, do not divide the content of professional management of education, and ensure the conditions for ensuring the quality of education in the national education system.

Unify the implementation of state management of education for the sector's expertise; recruitment, arrangement, transfer, secondment, and development of teaching staff by the provincial professional agency (Department of Education and Training) to implement uniformly throughout the province to carry out general regulation and handle local teacher surplus and shortage situations.

During the implementation process at the local level, the Ministry of Education and Training requests that the Provincial People's Committees not allow any gaps, overlaps or dispersion of management tasks, especially in key areas such as: Professional guidance, program content, staff management, finance, school facilities, inspection and examination.

When implementing decentralization of state management of education, it is necessary to ensure consistency with the orientation of the Laws that the Government is preparing to submit to the National Assembly for approval (Law on Teachers; Law on Education amended and supplemented; Law on Local Government amended; Law on Vocational Education amended...) to effectively implement state management of specialized professional activities of the education sector.

According to VNA