On October 11, Mr. Vu Minh Duc, Director of the Department of Teachers and Educational Managers, Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), shared about the draft Law on Teachers.

Regarding the proposal to exempt tuition fees for teachers' children, Mr. Vu Minh Duc said that the regulations on regimes and policies for relatives of cadres, civil servants and public employees are often proposed to be regulated for a number of sectors and fields with specific characteristics, for example, the health insurance regime, exemption and reduction of hospital fees for relatives of officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers serving in the people's armed forces have been regulated in the Law on People's Public Security, Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army).

International experience also shows that many countries, in addition to regulations on policies for teachers, also have preferential policies for relatives of teachers.

With the view of building the Law on Teachers to create policies, including some breakthrough policies, creating conditions for teachers to develop as well as enhancing the professional status of teachers to attract talented people to the industry, the Drafting Committee has proposed a policy to support tuition fees for teachers' children and other policies to ensure social security for teachers to create conditions for teachers to have a better life, peace of mind, and commitment to the education career.

According to Mr. Vu Minh Duc, during the process of drafting the Law on Teachers, the Ministry of Education and Training always receptively listened to the comments and criticisms of National Assembly deputies, teachers, voters and people nationwide to make timely adjustments if there was sufficient basis.

"Therefore, regarding the content of the regulation on tuition exemption policy for teachers' children, the Ministry of Education and Training is currently synthesizing opinions, carefully reviewing, and assessing the impact of the regulations in the direction of ensuring feasibility, ensuring correlation with other professions and the country's socio-economic conditions to edit the draft Law before submitting it to the National Assembly at the next session in accordance with the direction of the Government and the National Assembly. That is, issues that are ripe, clear, and highly consensual should be included in the Law. Remove the contents that have not been thoroughly assessed for impact or issues that have not achieved high consensus from the draft Law" - Mr. Vu Minh Duc expressed his opinion.

The Director of the Department of Teachers also added that the main viewpoint when implementing the development of the Law on Teachers is that this law will create a number of new policies, breakthrough policies to attract and develop the teaching staff, help teachers feel secure in their work, and dedicate themselves to their profession; ensure unity in the management of public and non-public teachers; standardize and improve the quality of teachers, taking that as an important factor to improve the quality of education in the country.

It is expected that the Law on Teachers will bring many positive impacts, such as the education sector will be proactive in recruiting, using and developing the teaching staff.

Teachers' status and role will be elevated, recognized and honored by society, and protected in their professional activities.

Creating equality in development opportunities between public and non-public teachers, for the first time the legal position of non-public teachers is established as teachers, not just as workers under the mechanism of labor contracts.