HCM City (VNS/VNA) – HoChi Minh City’s Department of Education and Training plans to hire 514additional teachers and educational staff for schools and continuing educationcentres in the 2020-2021 academic year.  

The recruitmentperiod will continue until July 30. Because of COVID-19,recruitment started a month later than previous years.

The cityis permitting recruitment of teachers without permanentresidency books. Under the Education Law, teachers for kindergartenswill be required to have a degree provided by a college of education.Teachers for primary and secondary schools must have a degree from auniversity of education.

The Ministry of Education andTraining said that more than 40 percent of primaryschool teachers need further training, as required under theEducation Law. More than 25 percent of secondary school teachers willalso need further training.

According to the District 2People’s Committee, the district will need 76 teachers and 11 educational stafffor kindergartens, and primary and secondary schools, up by 11 teachersand eight staff compared to the 2019-2020 year.

District 3 will recruit 77additional teachers for the 2020-2021 academic year.

District 9 will need 348teachers and 56 staff. Kindergartens in District 9 will need the highest numberof teachers, with 45.   

The District 4 People’sCommittee said it has received more applications from students thanits recruitment quotas. Most of the applications are for secondary schools.

According to Binh TanDistrict’s educational division, the district will recruit more music, English,and computer teachers.   

The city estimates that thetotal number of students from kindergarten to high school in the2020-2021 academic year will be more than 1.74 million, an increase of nearly54,000 compared to the 2019-2020 year.

Of these, the number ofsecondary school students will increase the most, with nearly 28,000,followed by high school students, up by more than 14,000.  

The increased number ofstudents is mostly in the districts of 9, 12, Go Vap, Thu Duc, Binh Tan, BinhChanh, Hoc Mon and Cu Chi which are in the process of urbanisation, which hasled to increased population.

As a result,these districts could have 40-50 students in one classroom, affectingthe quality of teaching and learning, the department said.

In the 2020-2021 academic year,the city will put more than 1,100 new classrooms into use. Many of them are inHoc Mon and Binh Chanh districts where a large numberof migrants come to work and live.

The People’s Committees indistricts will be in charge of enrolling first and sixth graders. TheDepartment of Education and Training will be in charge of enrolling10th graders for public high schools and sixth graders for Tran Dai NghiaSchool for Gifted Students.

The candidates for Tran DaiNghia School for Gifted Students will take English tests on July 25.  

As of June 30, the cityhad more than 82,000 candidates applying for the 10th grade./.