VietNamNet Bridge - Numerous teachers in math, physics, chemistry and literature are looking for jobs at HCM City high schools, but the demand is modest. Meanwhile, the city’s education department has found it difficult to recruit nursery school teachers and teachers of English for primary schools.

 

The HCM City Education and Training Department on March 3 granted documents on the appointments of teachers in the 2015-2016 academic year. Of the 849 candidates taking the entrance exam for the schools, the department said it could recruit 549 teachers. 

Nguyen Huynh Long, head of the Personnel Division of the HCM City Education and Training Department, noted though the competition ratio was just 1:2, it was still difficult to find suitable candidates because there were too many teachers in some subjects and few in others.

The number of candidates applying for the posts of math, physics, chemistry and literature teachers was very high, but the demand is low. As schools in the city have enough teachers in these subjects, they do not want to recruit more. 

Meanwhile, there were few candidates for the posts of technology, agriculture & industrial technique teachers.


In 2014, the schools in the city wanted 77 math teachers, but 148 applied for post. As for physics, the city wanted 51, while there were 129 applications. The same thing occurred with social science subjects.

An analyst commented that teacher development programming has led to the excess of teachers in some subjects and shortage in others. Meanwhile, high school teachers find it more difficult to get jobs.

According to the headmaster of a high school in Binh Thanh district, pedagogy schools every year produce thousands of graduates and many of them are jobless after the graduation. 

A high percentage of graduates do not return to their home villages after finishing schools, but stay in HCM City and try to look for jobs there.

While high schools refuse new teachers, district education sub-departments complained they cannot find teachers for nursery schools and teachers of English for primary schools.

Luu Hong Uyen, head of district 6’s education sub-department, said the district needs many teachers for new primary schools with 2,000 students.

“We want 120 teachers this year. We still lack 10 teachers for nursery and primary schools,” Uyen said.

In Thu Duc district, the state-owned preschools can satisfy only 40 percent of the demand, which means that other children will have to go to private schools. 

Meanwhile, non-state schools have been reported acking 200 teachers.

Primary schools all complain they lack teachers of English, but there are not enough candidates, or the candidates are not sufficiently qualified.

NLD