At the 2024 Higher Education Conference on the morning of August 9, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thu Thuy, Director of the Department of Higher Education, said that statistics from higher education institutions and pedagogical colleges showed that the number of full-time lecturers in the past 3 years is specifically as follows:

Thus, the number of professors working in higher education institutions increased compared to 2023 but was still lower than in 2022. The number of associate professors was more than 5,600, an increase of nearly 400 compared to 2023.

Meanwhile, there are still more than 6,000 lecturers with university degrees. The number of lecturers with doctoral degrees over the three years (2022 - 2024) has increased but slowly.

Ms. Thuy assessed that the autonomy mechanism allows schools to promote recruitment and personnel work towards improving quality.

Some schools proactively develop job placement plans, are proactive in recruitment, and sign employment contracts with lecturers with doctoral degrees and research capabilities; at the same time, they arrange, restructure, and reduce the number of staff recruited for civil servant, administrative, and service positions.

Despite positive results in staff development, the rate of lecturers receiving advanced training domestically and abroad under Project 89 (Decision No. 89/QD-TTg dated January 18, 2019 of the Prime Minister approving the Project on Improving the capacity of teachers and managers of higher education institutions to meet the requirements of fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training in the period 2019-2030) is low compared to the Project's objectives.

In 2022 and 2023, the number of people going for doctoral training domestically and abroad under Project 89 will be low. Accordingly, domestic training will be less than 50%, foreign training will be less than 70%.

However, a positive sign for ensuring the quality of teaching staff for higher education institutions is that the scale of doctoral training has begun to increase sharply in all sectors compared to 2023.

Accordingly, the sectors with the strongest increase include: Mathematics and Statistics, Computer and Information Technology, Engineering Technology, Engineering, Production and Processing, Architecture and Construction... increasing by 637 PhD students with an increase rate of 33.32% compared to 2023. The Life Sciences and Natural Sciences sectors increased by 390 PhD students with an increase rate of 57.52%; the Teacher Training sector increased by 350 PhD students with an increase rate of 51.32%...