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The Ministry of Education and Training is collecting comments on the draft Decree regulating co-tenured lecturers in vocational education institutions and higher education institutions. Download Full-time lecturers are considered full-time lecturers and receive allowances based on teaching hours. The draft aims to concretize the policies and orientations in the Partys Resolutions on full-time lecturers in vocational education institutions and higher education institutions. At the same time, guide the implementation of the Law on Higher Education 2025 in Clause 2, Article 29; Law on Vocational Education 2025 in Clause 3, Article 21 on co-tenured lecturers. Some inadequacies in managing visiting lecturers According to the Ministry of Education and Training, practical training activities at vocational education institutions and higher education institutions show that lecturers play a key role in ensuring the quality of training and scientific research. The visiting lecturers team also plays an important role in supplementing teaching human resources, especially for specific industries and fields, in-depth courses, updating practical knowledge, new technology or content related to the requirements of the labor market. The use of visiting lecturers contributes to improving flexibility in training organization, taking advantage of the professional experience, research capacity, management and professional practices of experts and scientists working at agencies, organizations, businesses or other educational establishments. However, due to the characteristics of working under short-term contracts, by modules or on a seasonal basis, the team of visiting lecturers has a limited level of attachment to the educational institution. In fact, visiting lecturers often do not fully and regularly participate in stable, long-term activities of vocational education institutions and higher education institutions such as building training programs, developing learning materials, scientific research, quality assurance, educational accreditation and academic management. High dependence on visiting lecturers can lead to fluctuations in teaching staff between semesters and school years; It is difficult to ensure continuity and consistency in organizing training and monitoring and evaluating learners learning outcomes. According to Clause 3, Article 21 of the Law on Vocational Education 2025: ...3. Full-time lecturers are public employees working at public service units (except public educational establishments), have high qualifications or talents, special aptitudes or high vocational skills and are assigned teaching and research tasks by public vocational education establishments as full-time lecturers. Clause 2, Article 29 of the Law on Higher Education 2025 stipulates: 2. Teaching University lecturers include full-time lecturers, full-time lecturers, full-time contract lecturers after retirement, and visiting lecturers. Joint lecturers are officials with doctoral degrees of public science and technology organizations other than higher education institutions, assigned to teach and do scientific research as full-time lecturers at public higher education institutions. In addition, the instability of the visiting lecturer team is also reflected in the difficulty of controlling workload, teaching time, legal responsibilities and professional obligations. This poses a challenge for educational institutions in meeting the requirements for conditions for ensuring training quality, identifying a team of key lecturers, as well as in inspection, supervision and accountability according to the provisions of law on higher education. Therefore, in practice management, the team of visiting lecturers needs to be identified as a supporting force, with a role in supporting and strengthening the team of tenured lecturers, but cannot replace the core, stable and long-term role. tenure of tenured lecturers in ensuring the quality and sustainable development of higher education institutions. For tenured lecturers, build a team that regularly participates in building and implementing training programs, guiding learners, performing scientific research tasks, as well as participating in management, quality assurance and educational accreditation. In fact, there are no documents regulating standards, use, management, and policies for tenured lecturers at many educational institutions. Education is different, leading to difficulties in determining legal responsibilities, allocating working time, teaching workload, scientific research obligations and calculating quality assurance conditions according to regulations. Clarifying the status of full-time lecturers at an educational institution at a time is necessary to ensure the stability of the team, improve the efficiency of human resource use, and at the same time create a legal basis for inspection, supervision and handling responsibilities when there are violations. Therefore, the specific regulations on full-time lecturers stem from practical management requirements, ensuring training quality and in accordance with the trend of perfecting the legal framework on higher education in the current period. now. Joint lecturers are considered full-time lecturers and receive allowances based on teaching hours. The draft clearly states the principles for using joint lecturers.That is, co-tenured lecturers are counted as full-time lecturers of the educational institution where the contract is signed to serve the work of quality accreditation, ensure conditions for opening majors, and organize training according to the provisions of law on education and training. Each public officer can only be a co-tenure lecturer of one educational institution at the same time. The management, evaluation, reward, and discipline of co-tenured lecturers must have written coordination between the educational institution and the unit. Direct management of public employees; Do not disrupt, duplicate or contradict
