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The Ministry of Education and Training is collecting comments on the draft Circular regulating standards, conditions, working regimes, appointment and salary for higher education support personnel. Download Higher education support personnel work 40 hours a week. The draft Circular was developed to improve the legal basis for management, use and development of higher education support personnel. This is a step to concretize the Law on Higher Education 2025, aiming to build a professional, modern support team and meet the requirements of educational innovation. The ability to apply artificial intelligence becomes a mandatory standard. The Draft Circular focuses on standardizing and improving the capacity of support personnel groups in higher education institutions, including: teaching assistants, researchers and teaching support personnel. For the first time, digital capacity and the ability to apply information technology information and artificial intelligence (AI) are included as mandatory standards for all higher education support staff positions. This is to comprehensively develop the working team in higher education institutions to meet the requirements of the new context. The draft stipulates that teaching assistant positions and teaching support personnel (in cases where there are no specialized regulations) must have a university degree or higher appropriate to the job position. For researchers, the standards will comply with the regulations of the Ministry of Science and Technology but add additional requirements on pedagogical capacity and teaching support. Working hours are arranged flexibly. According to the draft Circular, the working time of higher education support personnel during the school year is 44 weeks (equivalent to 1,760 administrative hours) to carry out professional activities including teaching support, implementing science, technology and innovation activities, and studying. Internships, training, practice, experiments and other professional activities are determined by semester or school year after deducting the number of days off as prescribed. Along with that, the draft stipulates that higher education support personnel work 40 hours a week, with flexible arrangements according to the requirements of professional tasks, in case it is necessary to perform on weekends or outside of office hours. The draft also stipulates the basis for specific training sectors and research fields. and conditions for implementation, the head of the higher education institution specifically stipulates the allocation of working time for each group of higher education support personnel. Assigning the head of the higher education institution to specifically stipulate the allocation of working time of each group of higher education support personnel ensures flexibility and compatibility with practice. Currently, higher education institutions have different scales, training disciplines, research fields and operating conditions. Decentralization helps institutions proactively build working regimes in accordance with actual needs instead of applying a rigid regulation to all schools. This regulation also promotes the autonomy of higher education institutions, improves the efficiency of human resource use, meets the specific requirements of each industry and field, and facilitates adjustments related to human resources. support for higher education when there are changes. Appointment and salary ranking are not only based on qualifications and seniority. Instead of applying individual regulations for each position, the draft stipulates a common legal framework on ethical standards, qualifications and working regimes for the entire group of higher education support personnel. This ensures consistency and transparency in legal regulations. The draft circular also transitions from title management to employment positions. Appointments and salaries will be made based on job position and the actual needs of the educational institution, instead of just based on qualifications or seniority. According to the draft Circular, officials who have been appointed to the position of teaching assistant or researcher according to old regulations will be reviewed and rearranged according to new job positions if they meet the standards. It is expected that the Circular, once issued, will have a deep and wide impact, improving the professional status of the support staff. Supporting higher education, ensuring opportunities to develop skills, ensuring financial benefits, clearly defining tasks, avoiding overlap, creating a basis for objectively assessing the level of job completion. The Ministry of Education and Training is collecting comments on this draft on the Ministrys e-portal./. See moreSelecting 12 leading higher education institutions: There must be arguments, openness, transparency and focused investment. See moreProposal to change from input control to monitoring output results in higher education. 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